Senior Associate of Investor Relations, Octopus Energy Group
Octopus Energy Generation, Maternity Cover
3+ days a week in office
Entech company
Open for applications
Entech company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3+ 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
- Relevant work experience in the financial sector, preferably in an investor relations, fundraising or marketing role
- Creative flair with excellent written skills and ability to build engaging presentations and investor deliverables
- Numerate and able to understand financial concepts
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Capability for independent judgement – ability to independently plan, organise and prioritise work, whilst being flexible in approach and able to support others with shifting priorities, working autonomously and as a team player
- Proactive in building excellent relationships across external partners and internal stakeholders
- Confident presentation skills
- Highly organised with a high work rate, able to thrive in a busy environment juggling multiple competing priorities
- Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office suite
- Experience using a CRM system and RFP response management tool would be an advantage
- Experience working on private investment funds with an understanding of the investor landscape and fundraising processes is an advantage
- Experience in the renewables sector is an advantage
What the job involves
- We are looking for a motivated and proactive individual to join the Fund Management team to support on our investor facing activities and deliverables
- You will predominantly be focused on our flagship private fund, Octopus Renewables Infrastructure SCSp (better known as the “Sky” fund) whilst supporting and ensuring synergies and coordination across our broader private institutional funds
- The role will be full-time for a duration of 9 months to cover for a colleague on maternity leave
- The role will be based in London, with flexibility and remote work options to accommodate your needs and maintain work-life balance
- An average of 3 days a week in the office would be desirable
- The role will report to the Fund Manager of the Sky fund
- Oversee and project manage the Sky fund’s investor inbox, responding to or delegating queries to relevant team members and ensuring timely responses
- Coordinate responses to queries from investors (e.g. DDQs, ESG templates, ad hoc queries following meetings), ensuring consistency across all fund responses
- Manage the Sky fund’s investor relations portal and fundraising dataroom; coordinate with internal teams to ensure all policies, marketing materials and disclosures are relevant and up to date
- Coordinate, produce and help to present bespoke materials for meetings with existing or prospective investors, tailored to the investor’s specific requests and interests
- Coordinate, design and produce all of the Sky fund’s external facing documents, such as quarterly factsheets, pitch decks, standard DDQ and the annual report
- Project manage RFI/RFP processes, co-ordinating with specialist functions across the business to respond thoroughly and promptly
- Gather market intelligence, including competitor analysis, peer group activity, industry best practice and key issues affecting investors
- Act as the last defence in quality control by checking and questioning data/materials before they are distributed to investors/prospective investors
- Support and lead on several ongoing OEGen initiatives to improve the reporting quality, consistency and transparency to our investors
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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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
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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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