Launch Pad

Use our Launch Pad Apprenticeship Programme to start your career in Banking

Are you looking for an alternative to university?

Would you like to learn whilst you earn?

Would you like to kick start a great career in Banking?

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

OSB Group are offering a rare opportunity to join our IT team as a IT Risk and Compliance Apprentice. This position will give you fantastic insight and experience working with the IT Risk and Compliance team.

You will gain a thorough understanding of a risk management and will support the Bank to meet current and future demands. Working within a supportive team, you will get ‘hands on’ experience whilst achieving qualifications to support your career goals.

OSB Group is a specialist mortgage lender, supported by our savings brands. Our key purpose is to help customers, colleagues and communities prosper. 

Proud to be listed in The Sunday Times ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’, we have over 2000 employees across the UK and India. We’re focused on developing positive relationships in the communities in which we’re based, and over the last two years we’ve donated over half a million pounds to local charity partners.

Our Apprenticeship Programme is open to all people. In particular we would love to talk to those of you who are from a diverse and wide range of backgrounds and experiences and we strongly encourage applications from people with a disability, ethnically diverse people, LGBTQ+ people and  all gender identities.

On a typical day, you will be completing a variety of tasks to support the team. This includes:

• Supporting the preparation and maintenance of committee agenda, packs, actions, and minutes
• Attending key risk and compliance meetings and take meeting minutes for distribution to staff
• IT Risk Register administration and support -updating the risk register following risk meetings
• Supporting Risk Managers workloads when working with the IT Risk champions
• Ensuring information is captured to support updates on issues and risk events when raised to ensure all required information has been captured and input
• Recording new risk issues onto the tracker and liaising with the relevant IT Risk Manager
• IT Risk Assurance team & IT Compliance team liaison and support

• A permanent contract
• Professional Cyber Security Risk Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship Qualification, with an established training provider, supporting you all the way
• A buddy to help you navigate your first steps in your financial services career
• £14,000 starting salary
• 5% annual performance related discretionary bonus
• A Monday – Friday, 9-5 job (no weekend working!)
• A great benefits package including; 28 days holiday, a bonus scheme and lots of added extras on Perkbox (cheap cinema tickets, discount codes for eating out and high street stores, free phone insurance!) 

What we need from you: 

• An inquisitive mind!
• Good communication skills and a willingness to learn the department from the ground up
• Able to use a word processing package and simple spreadsheets, e.g. to maintain records of information
• Determination to learn and develop new skills, with the long term aim to progress
• Minimum GSCE’s (Grade 4/ C or above) in Mathematics and English and ideally working towards higher education in Year 13
• Right to work in the UK
• (You cannot apply if you have an existing qualification in the apprentice area you wish to apply for)

• APPLY – please complete the simple questions via our online portal, helping us understand why you’re interested and in what area of the business
• Screening calls will be arranged shortly afterwards and assessment activities arranged
• Applications open until 5pm on Wednesday 15th May
• Offers will be made with flexible start dates depending on the availability of the group we hire!

If you are considering a career within Financial Services please click the ‘Apply’ button to send us your CV or if you’d like to talk to us first, please email at recruitment@osb.co.uk stating “Launch Pad” in your subject heading and we will be in touch.