Associate Financial Modeller - Octopus Australia

Description

We’re looking for an Associate Financial Modeller to work within the Business Intelligence unit of the Strategic Finance team at Octopus Australia. The core responsibility of this role is to develop insights into the fund management, investment, asset management and development businesses of Octopus Australia, whilst operating maintaining and further developing the suite of models that underpins these businesses.

• Assisting in liaising with model auditors, answering audit questions and making relevant changes to models.
• Performing scenario and sensitivity analysis at a portfolio level to assess impact of the various equity exposures in Octopus’s asset portfolio. Clear articulation of key messages and insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Consolidation of asset performance and macro inputs to drive insights into past and forward estimates of performance for Octopus’s funds.
• Refreshing models with updates to economic, pricing, cost, and generation level inputs, whilst ensuring rigor and best practice, along with (and championing the discipline of) proper version control in models used within the business.
• Ensuring that the various financial models used in the business integrates with each other and will result in insights that support the business in making key decisions.
• Provide support in maintaining and operating the various asset, and fund level models that have been developed by the business to be used in the planning process ensuring reliability, accuracy, and suitability for use. This requires integrating oneself with all aspects of the business to understand the needs and challenges of the business and how the right tools can be used and further developed to support the business.
• Onboarding new assets into the operating asset models from their relevant investment models’ post-acquisition.

Requirements

This role will be focused on financial modelling but will have touch points throughout different parts of the business and will provide an in-depth understanding of operating renewable assets and funds management. The candidate will also be exposed to various aspects of the energy transition currently happening within Australia.

• Accounting qualification or similar.
• Fluency in Microsoft excel, VBA and financial modelling best practices.
• Previous experience in a professional services modelling team / formal training in modelling best practices.
• Experience in real asset (infrastructure, real estate, renewable energy) model development and operations (will be considered favourably).
• Must be comfortable using technology and leveraging digital applications and media platforms.

Benefits

• Ongoing learning and career development opportunities
• 💰 A competitive salary package including bonus and medical insurance benefits
• ✈️ Extra Annual Leave entitlement

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance