Group Strategic Finance Principal - Capital Formation

At Octopus Energy, we're all about clean, green energy with transparent pricing and a relentless commitment to customer experience. Join our global team dedicated to sustainability and green tech, where energy is good for the planet and your soul We embrace flat hierarchies and an open, agile culture that fosters innovation, flexibility, and creativity. We don't hang our personalities up with our coats and nor should you. At Octopus, we hire great people who get stuff done, all whilst being themselves. We're seeking a strategic, finance-focused professional to support our corporate finance initiatives and manage equity and debt fundraising activities at the Group level. You will work closely with senior leadership, financial institutions, investors and internal teams to structure, negotiate, and complete both equity and debt financing to support the company's ambitious growth objectives. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of capital markets and experience raising funds in dynamic, fast-paced environments with a high degree of ambiguity. Key responsibilities include: Financial Modelling, Board, Investor and Lender Engagement, and Capital Structure and Fundraising Strategy & Execution.What you'll do...

• Lead on the development and maintenance of evergreen and bespoke valuation model(s) across the Group, assimilating entity-level models spanning four business units, two dozen-plus entities and over a dozen active country presences into Group-level outputs.
• Collaborate with the CFO and leadership team to develop capital structure strategies, ensuring alignment with long-term financial goals.
• In addition to engagement on capital structure, funding strategy & execution, support Group CFO with investor relations requests including Q&A, presentations and visits (frequent visitors to headquarters). You will be involved in building relationships with and marketing our business to a wide variety of leading global investors. You will also support our relationships with our existing investors & our board.
• Help to manage existing debt facilities and support debt issuance and refinancing projects as well as lending and ratings relationships. Partner with entity-level counterparts in asset finance parts of the Group.
• Help to define the future capital structure and funding strategy of the Group at corporate and entity levels. Support debt and equity funding projects and other projects that affect capital structure as the day-to-day finance lead, including leading on work streams such as modelling, information memorandum preparation and due diligence.
• Partner with Group CEO, CFO & Strategy leads as well as advisors to structure, negotiate, and complete funding rounds and/or financings.
• Partner closely with teams in strategic and operational finance, accounting and tax in a global role.
  
  Experience building and maintaining financial models.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage and interpret complex data.Experience or exposure to board and investor reporting and financial presentations.
• You should be credible at a senior level (internally and externally) and be able to run deal processes with a degree of autonomy.
• Experience in capital structure and fundraising processes is necessary, with ECM and/or DCM experience in public and/or private capital markets.
• Experience working with financial institutions, including banks and/or credit rating agencies.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, high ambiguity environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with attention to detail.
• Relevant experience in the clean energy/energy transition and/or technology industries is preferred; if you don't have sector experience, you'll need to demonstrate your knowledge and clear motivations to build your career in this sector through the process.