Accountant (Remote, 2-3 Days/Week) - Octopus Energy Group
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Octopus Energy Group, a global energy transition collective, is seeking a brilliant, hands-on Accountant to join their team for 2 or 3 days a week to wrap up the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme and ensure all financials are accurately accounted for.
About the Role
You’ll take ownership of regular statutory and regulatory reporting, handle reconciliations, and scope out and deliver the final audit requirements. This role is ideal for someone who is organized, proactive, and eager to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.
While experience with ECO or government-backed schemes is a bonus, what matters most is a strong accounting background, an eye for detail, and the drive to see projects through to completion. This is a remote role with occasional travel to the London office.
Key Responsibilities
- Monthly management reporting, including preparation of month-end workbooks, posting journals, preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, and liaising with finance representatives to finalize results.
- Preparation of year-end financial statements, working closely with the Group finance team and tax team.
- Preparation and filing of VAT returns.
- Managing the reasonable assurance engagement for the ECO scheme government grant.
- Leading the wind-down of the business from a finance perspective and transitioning to dormant entity accounts.
Requirements
- You must be a qualified chartered accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with a solid understanding of financial reporting, reconciliations, and audit processes.
- Confidence in working with large and complex data sets, with strong Excel skills to analyze, reconcile, and interpret numbers.
- A good understanding of UK accounting standards, including FRS 102, and the ability to apply them in practice.
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex financial information clearly to teams and senior leaders.
- Highly organized, proactive, and self-motivated, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- A brilliant eye for detail, particularly in financial reporting, reconciliations, and audit requirements.
- Willingness to get hands-on, solve challenges, and work through problems with minimal direction.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment where adaptability is key.
- Experience with ECO, government-funded programs, or regulated schemes is a bonus but not mandatory.
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Octopus Energy
View Company ProfileOctopus Energy (operating under octopus.energy, legally Octopus Energy Group Limited) is the premier, enterprise-grade renewable energy technology platform, clean utility pioneer, and global green asset orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-visibility retail energy supply, decentralized grid management, and smart meter time-of-use tariff layer for tens of millions of homes and commercial entities worldwide. Founded in 2015 by visionary tech and energy entrepreneurs Greg Jackson (CEO), Stuart Jackson (CFO), Pete Miller, and AJ Lawrence, the corporation completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional, fossil-heavy energy provisioning—where legacy utility providers encounter extreme customer dissatisfaction, billing opacity, and rigid infrastructure traps that block renewable adoption—by deploying its proprietary cloud-based "Kraken" tech stack. Moving far beyond passive power delivery lines or traditional regional monopolies, Octopus natively unifies hyper-flexible time-of-use digital pricing engines (such as the wholesale-pegged Octopus Tracker and half-hourly Agile Octopus), consumer heat pump systems, domestic battery arrays, electric vehicle concierge infrastructure, and commercial renewable generation management into a high-availability digital utility network. Serving as a mission-critical clean tech operator across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, the collective manages over 11 million active accounts globally while its core software platform, Kraken, is contracted to orchestrate more than 40 million energy and water accounts worldwide. Reflecting its immense market dominance and investor validation, the high-growth giant commands an expansive institutional asset framework backed by over $1.96 billion in venture and private equity funding—supported by top-tier capital architects including Generation Investment Management, CPP Investments, Tokyo Gas, Origin Energy, and major funding expansions that value the enterprise at approximately $9 billion. Under the hood, its technology framework utilizes advanced machine learning engines designed to balance distributed energy resources with real-time supply and demand, high-frequency smart meter parsing pipelines, and developer-friendly data routing endpoints optimized to manage massive multi-region transactional billing logs with absolute precision and sub-second execution latency. What sets Octopus Energy apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing fragmented, legacy utility models with an "Internet of Energy" that combines mathematical price predictability, hands-on customer-first service, and scalable grid decarbonization; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive relational software automation and front-row global climate transformation goals, the corporation remains the definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic energy technology and global green utility infrastructure transformation.
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