🌍 London, Hybrid

⭐️ Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Finance Manager at SO ENERGY

Reporting into our CFO - Iain McGregor 👋, we are looking for a strong Finance Manager to support our growing finance team whose purpose will be to ensure accurate and timely reporting of the business financials, maintaining key control environments and managing our cashflows and funding.

Managing a team of 6 the Finance Manager responsibilities include delivering the monthly accounts process, providing challenge to accruals and other assumptions and ensuring the financial controls are maintained at all times. Furthermore you will support the commentary on key variances in the monthly reporting pack.

You will look after our cash, ensuring that industry parties are paid on time whilst maximising the funding available to the business. You will support the monthly engagement with Ofgem, industry regulator, ensuring that our periodic obligations are met.

Working with the Finance team and wider business to help create accurate and informed budgets and forecasts.

Ultimately you will be a key voice and partner to both internal and external stakeholders ensuring delivery of key financial insights to help manage risk, identify opportunities and support business planning.

In order to be successful in this role you will have proven track record of managing stakeholder and a strong understanding of preparing financials in a complex environment.

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Ensure the development and training of the finance team

• Oversee the production of monthly management accounts.
• Ensure control environment is maintained at all times.
• Manage risks and opportunities in the financial accounts to ensure clear visibility at all times.
• Work with FP&A and Business Partnering to ensure the distribution if timely and accurate financial information across the business.
• Review, challenge and approve/reject expenditure.
• Maintain RCM and Risk registers
• Review the preparation cashflows and ensuring timely supplier payments
• Support the CFO in reporting to stakeholders
• Deputise, as required for CFO

This role will be a great fit if:

• Recognised accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent.

• Proven work experience in a senior finance role.
  
• Ability to demonstrate the understanding of monthly Management Accounts process.
  
• Understanding of key controls within the finance environment
  
• In-depth understanding of cash flow and loan management in a fast moving industry.
  
• Hands-on experience with budgeting and risk management
  
• Ability to interpret financial results and translate these to non-financial managers
  
• Strong IT skills, proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
  
• Solid analytical and decision-making skills
  
• Leadership abilities and strong communication skills
  
• Energy industry experience will be a significant advantage but not essential

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1. Talent Team Screen (30-minutes)
2. Presentation Task + Stakeholder Interview (60-minutes)
3. Hiring Manager Interview (45-minutes)

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.