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BelkinFinancial Analyst
Financial Analyst driving financial performance and operational excellence at Belkin. Collaborating with teams to provide strategic financial insights and manage various financial processes.
About the role
- Act as a key strategic partner to the Finance Director and the wider OEV leadership team, providing insightful financial analysis and commercial recommendations.
- Lead the annual budgeting, periodic re-forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes.
- Develop and own complex financial models to support new business initiatives, pricing strategies for our products and investment decisions.
- Work closely with the financial controller to lead the production of timely and accurate monthly management reporting packs, providing clear commentary on performance against budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) focused on driver acquisition, fleet management, margin analysis, and operational efficiency.
- Conduct deep-dive variance analysis to understand the "why" behind the numbers and identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
- Own and refine our core financial model, ensuring it accurately reflects the unique drivers of our salary sacrifice and leasing business.
- Manage and improve cash flow forecasting, working closely with treasury and accounting teams to optimise our working capital.
- Model various scenarios to stress-test our plans and inform strategic pivots.
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing FP&A team, fostering a culture of excellence, autonomy, and continuous improvement.
- Drive the enhancement of our FP&A systems, tools, and processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability as the business grows.
- Collaborate with the Data team to ensure data integrity and automate reporting where possible.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a senior FP&A leadership role, ideally within a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
- Ideally have experience in automotive, leasing, or financial services
- A fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Demonstrable experience in building and leading a high-performing FP&A team.
- **Expert-level financial modeller:** You can build robust, scalable, and complex models, including experience working with SQL
- **Commercially astute:** You think like a business owner, quickly grasping complex commercial drivers and translating them into financial impacts.
- **An exceptional communicator:** You can simplify complex financial information and present it as a clear and compelling story to senior, non-finance stakeholders.
- **Data-savvy:** You are highly analytical and comfortable working with large datasets. Experience with BI tools (like Looker, Tableau, or Power BI) is a major plus.
- **Strong leadership capabilities: **You have experience managing projects and/or teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- **Leadership: **You have experience managing and developing highly skilled teams, preferably in a fast paced environment
Benefits
- 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
- 🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
- *P.s.* 🐶 *just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies*
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