We are looking for a Finance Business Partners to join our team in Fareham.

As Finance Business Partner, your role is to ensure the efficient reporting of performance of your assigned business units, which includes leading the completion of month end reporting processes, ownership of general ledger, balance sheet substantiations and monitoring of bank reconciliations. You’ll be a key player in ensuring compliance with the group’s policies and control framework. This is an all-encompassing role, allowing the postholder to take ownership and build relationships with stakeholders of all levels across the business.

The OSB Group is a FTSE 250 specialist mortgage lender, primarily focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market.

Our specialist lending is supported by our Kent Reliance and Charter Savings Bank retail savings franchises. Diversification of funding is provided by sophisticated securitisation platforms. OSB’s unique cost-efficient operating model is supported by our wholly-owned subsidiary OSBIndia.

Alongside passion for our products and customers, we're passionate about our people and want to continue building a collaborative and engaging environment.  Being dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we encourage differences and recognise that individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights and enhance the way we work.  This is supported by our Diversity, Community and Environment Employee Engagement Networks and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter and Women in Leadership Programme. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the execution of accurate and timely completion of the month end reporting process, meeting the WD 4 close deadline. Ownership of the general ledger, ensuring all journals posted are accurate and contain strong supporting documentation.
• Preparing monthly analytical reviews and present the month end financial reports for senior manager review and approval, demonstrating ownership of follow-ups and seeing them through to completion.
• Monitoring the daily bank reconciliations prepared by OSB India, work with the business to ensure unreconciled items are investigated and cleared in a timely fashion, escalate aged items to management and take ownership to resolve.
• Owning your business unit balance sheet substantiation process in Blackline, organising staff in India to meet the Group’s WD 10 deadline. Ensure the business unit reconciliations are prepared in accordance with the Group’s policy. Manage all unreconciled differences, driving change to ensure timely resolution.
• Liaising with the Business and the Group’s planning team to deliver the annual forecast for your business unit. Prepare monthly analytical reviews on actual performance against forecasts, presenting to the business unit Board at the monthly meeting.
• Supporting the Group’s external audit, developing strong relationships with the Group’s External Auditor and ensure your business unit deliverables are provided in-line with agreed deadlines. Be the key contact for answering business unit audit queries, ensuring clear communication to management of issues arising.
• Being responsible for ensuring business unit controls and processes remain aligned to the Group operating model, adopting best practices across the Group as well as proactive involvement in process and control enhancements and efficiencies.

We offer a base salary from £50,000 dependent on experience and location and a competitive benefits package including:

• Discretionary annual bonus opportunity of up to 15%.
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Contributory pension (8% employer 5% employee).
• Life Assurance (4x salary) plus Group Income Protection.
• Access to Private Medical Insurance and Medical Cash Plan.
• Maternity & Adoption Leave – Occupational Maternity/Adoption Pay provided at 100% of salary for the first 26 weeks.
• Paternity Leave – 8 weeks of paid leave to be taken within 12 months of birth or adoption.
• Additional benefits such as Hybrid working, Cycle Purchase scheme, Technology Purchase scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Holiday purchase / sell schemes, Employee Perk Portals, Payroll giving and Save as you Earn scheme.

We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below:

• Post qualification experience in a similar role is essential.
• Previous experience of Financial Control is essential.
• Previous experience of Management Accounting is essential.
• Previous experience of working within a financial services or risk based environment is essential.
• Previous experience of implementing process improvement projects and establishing good working controls is essential.
• Up to date knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS is essential.
• Advanced knowledge of financial control processes is essential.
• Advanced knowledge of accounting systems is essential.
• Basic knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley control principles is essential.
• A confident user of general ledger systems and posting journals is essential.
• Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Excel including formula and pivot tables is essential.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to Interact with people at all levels in an organisation is essential.
• Excellent organisational skills are essential.
• Ability to handle complex financial transactions is essential.

We also believe that your career and how you progress is as unique as your individual personality. We continually support our people so they can become the best version of themselves.

If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply.

Alternatively, if you wish to have an informal and confidential chat please get in touch. Contact details can be found on our careers page.

If shortlisted from your initial application we operate a personalised recruitment process. Interviews are a two way street, we aim for them to be relevant and conversational to get the best out of you!

OSB Group are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and committed to treating all our employees and job applicants equally.  We embrace equal opportunities and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

As part of our public commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, we have introduced our own initiatives to attract, develop and advance senior women in our sector. We don’t stop there though, we have broadened our approach to encourage diversity and inclusion at all levels and in all roles. Our leadership and Executive Committee are right behind us, to the extent that our Diversity Champions sit at Board level and on a monthly basis receive updates on our progress. 

Whilst we are an organisation that values face-to-face interaction to build and nourish our culture, we also acknowledge that people are not just productive in an office and tied to the 9 to 5.  Flexible-working opportunities are important for establishing a healthy work-life balance so if you see a role of interest we are happy to be asked about flexibility and explore together if we can make it work.

All applicants must have rights to work in the UK and be willing to undertake the relevant pre-employment screening checks should your application be successful.