Finance Business Analyst

Octopus Energy has grown exponentially in its short history. It is now a complex multi-billion turnover international group, which participates in multiple industry verticals including retail utilities, utilities management, generation, EV leasing and software sales.

We are committed to innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. As part of our growth strategy, we are implementing NetSuite and a number of supplementary Finance applications e.g. OCR, AP Management to streamline our finance operations and improve efficiency. We are seeking a Finance Systems Business Analyst to play a key role in these initiatives.

Its legacy business management applications are at the limit of their capacity and capability. A new enterprise resource planning tool (ERP) is required to both provide a finance back bone for the Group, and to integrate information flows and insights across the group. Oracle’s NetSuite SAAS platform has been selected for this task. The process to select supplementary applications is underway.

This role will be pivotal in ensuring the ongoing success of Finance and its systems for the Group and is key to maintaining appropriate controls that reflect the Group’s segregation of duties. It will also be pivotal in defining streamlined processes & procedures across the Group.

Working in Octopus’ Finance Systems team, you will be responsible for documenting end to end Finance processes, identifying best practices, controls and procedures. You will also be responsible for working with stakeholders across all our Octopus’ entities to capture requirements for Finance applications; this includes but is not limited to NetSuite. 

NetSuite is our core Finance system and it is supplemented by additional applications focused on specific tasks performed or managed by the Finance team. NetSuite is not the only system in the Finance landscape and thus close coordination and integration with other teams and tools is very frequent.

What you'll do

• Be responsible for interviewing Finance Stakeholders to capture and document as is business processes
• Using as-is business processes, identify risks and devise appropriate controls and to-be processes
• Report on new requirements, gaps in Finance systems, controls and processes
• Ensure Finance is following best practices and processes are designed to be re-used where possible
• Identify problems within the business relating, through data modelling techniques and process flows.
• Have the ability to streamline processes.
• Communicate with senior people within the organisation.
• Align internal and external stakeholders of the benefits of new technology or strategies/requirements/processes.
• Part of this assignment will be to run workshops and training sessions in order to ensure that everyone is on board and understands the processes involved
• Work closely with the business to address finding raised by the audit committee
• Develop and manage a risk control matrix

What you'll need

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst with a focus on financial systems.
• In-depth understanding of financial processes, including accounting principles, financial reporting, with a focus on risk, controls, and compliance
• Experience with system implementations or change management with Finance systems is essential
• Familiarity with financial software and systems (e.g., NetSuite, Accounts Payable Applications: OCR, Invoice matching software)
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changes quickly.
• Ability to influence others in order to improve processes and application quality.
• Ability to work independently.
• You will have strong documentation management experience and skills.
• Understanding of Corporate Criminal Offenses & Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.

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