Underwriting Support Specialist

What we do. Electric Car Leasing

Why we do it. Greener. Fairer. Future.

We’re continuing to build our in-house underwriting team at Octopus Electric Vehicles. The focus is currently on assessing B2B credit risk for our business contract hire and salary sacrifice products, but also includes consumer credit assessments.

We’re creating a new set of policies, processes and tech tools to efficiently and accurately assess credit risk. To help us do that, we’re hiring an Underwriting Support Specialist to support the wider Underwriting team.

Our goal is to become an industry leader in our ability to provide quick credit line decisions to both B2B and consumer clients. We will build and invest in best in class technology and datasets to help you achieve that goal.

What you'll do

• Support in governance of credit portfolio to ensure controls are in place and compliant to credit policy
• Support in management of Credit team inboxes
• Triage credit related queries that come to the team, such as credit uplifts, credit blocks, credit renewals and third party queries
• Support with management of third parties and providing required information to support with underwriting and credit renewals

What you'll need

• Willingness to get hands on with administrative tasks to support the Credit Underwriting team
• Ability to manage mailboxes and liaise with internal teams and third parties
• Experience working in a hands-on Credit or Financial Administrator role would be an advantage
• Knowledge of credit policies would be beneficial
• Experience in vehicle leasing would be an advantage but not essential

Why else you'll love it here

• Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-upsto work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recordeda podcast about our culture and how we empower our people

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!

• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits