Investment Administrator, Octopus Energy Group
Octopus Energy Generation, Investment Management
2+ days a week in office
Entech company
Job no longer available
Entech company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Octopus Energy's mission is to speed the transition to a sustainable, low carbon future through renewable energy and technology whilst putting customers at the heart of everything they do.
Role
Who you are
- Familiarity with investment processes and/or M&A or have worked in a similar professional environment
- Experience and understanding of working and helping coordination with lawyers and company secretaries
- Experience of managing internal committees and recording minutes & actions Experience with compliance processes such as KYC and AML
- Highly organised with a high work rate, able to thrive in a busy environment juggling multiple competing priorities
- Capable of organising and coordinating multiple requests and high volumes of documentation
- Experience with digital e-signing platforms such as DocuSign
- Ability to handle sensitive/confidential information (e.g. regarding fund, investment and investor information)
What the job involves
- This role sits at the heart of OEGENs Investment team and is responsible for overseeing the investment administration and committee secretariat functions alongside ensuring the associated governance and compliance processes operate smoothly
- This role is responsible for ensuring the right level of general administrative support is provided to the Investment team on a day-to-day basis
- This role should challenge the status quo and seek to continually identify and implement operational improvements, either through process enhancements or using technology
- It should be flexible to picking up new challenges as the business develops and grows
- Support the Investment Team through deal completion processes; includes document review and data room management, and company secretarial support, including document completion and collation
- Complete the relevant KYC (Know Your Customer) checks for relevant counterparties in conjunction with the Compliance function using Dun & Bradstreet
- Provide committee secretariat functions for the Investment Committee and Allocations Committee including diarising meetings and ensuring quorate, collating papers, preparing agendas and writing minutes, tracking and monitoring actions to ensure committees are operating efficiently and effectively
- Providing support to the shared management of the general email inbox, completing tasks such as management of document sign off (digital and wet ink) and approval and handling incoming enquiries in a professional and helpful manner
- Work closely with other members of the Business Operations Team, including the Operations Assistant, Onboarding Coordinator and Executive Assistant to understand their roles and be able to cover and support team members during leave and periods of work overflow and ensure appropriate presence in the office
- Manage any ad-hoc requests from around the business that requires OEGEN input (e.g. information requests)
- Contribute ideas for ensuring that the business remains one that everyone wants to work for and no-one wants to leave
Salary benchmarks
Our take
According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and they now supply energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.
Octopus Energy further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract so they can leave at any time to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. They aim to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of their tariffs use 100% green electricity, while not being more expensive than their competitors' non-green tariffs.
They are continually creating innovative new products. For example, Octopus Tracker where prices changes daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges they face is that their products are more complex than their competitors, given they use 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. They're exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.
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46% female employees
44% employee growth in 12 months
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Challenging work
"The work that I am doing is often quite difficult. I am constantly challenged and problem solving, which I find rewarding as it means I am always..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$800m
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Jul 2022
$225m
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Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
- Flexi working environment
- Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Equity Option Scheme - Everyone owns part of what we’re building with shares
- Tech - We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
- Money Coach - You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach. They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
- Wellbeing - Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available. Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Octopus staff!
- Parents - get access to tax free childcare and maternity and paternity pay. We’re always looking for new ways to support parents, during lockdown we created OctoKids TV to help keep your kids occupied and entertained (https://octopus.energy/blog/octopuskids/)
- Office culture - Our offices are stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee, and soft drinks (and ice lollies if you're lucky)! Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner. We won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. Check out what our people say at Glassdoor!
- Car Salary Sacrifice - Browse the wide selection of electric vehicles and get a sample quote under our workplace salary sacrifice scheme. If approved, the monthly leasing costs are taken directly from your gross salary each month meaning you're saving on paying some tax
Company values
- Autonomy
- Empathy
- Innovation
- Impact
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Greg Jackson
(CEO)Previously Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.
James Eddison
(CTO)Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.
Stuart Jackson
(CFO)Previously Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.
Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.
Diversity & Inclusion at Octopus Energy Group
- Unconscious Bias workshops for interviewers and hiring managers
- Octopus Energy Equality Foundation
- Partnership with the Saracens High School - inspiring future generations - https://www.saracens.com/powering-futures-together-saracens-high-school-octopus-energy/
- Octopus Energy Internships - https://octopus.energy/blog/ada-lovelace-tech-internship/
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