Senior Finance Business Partner

About the team

We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead the end-to-end finance agenda for our Lending business. In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the Product leadership team, Executive Committee and Board with high-quality insight, forecasting and performance reporting that drives sound commercial decisions. This is a hands-on, commercially focused role suited to an experienced finance professional with a strong understanding of mortgage and lending economics, including volumes, pricing, margin, EIR, NIM and balance-sheet dynamics. This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys translating complex financial drivers into clear, decision-ready insight. The role can be based from Wolverhampton, London or Chatham with occasional travel between offices.

What you will be doing?

• You will combine deep technical capability (including Excel modelling, Anaplan) with strong commercial judgement, influencing decisions on growth, pricing, margin and investment across a core OSB franchise.
• As Senior Finance Business Partner for Lending, you will:

• Own monthly performance reporting for the Lending business, covering P&L, balance sheet and key value drivers, with clear actuals vs forecast analysis and commercially focused commentary.
• Lead annual budget, rolling forecast and strategic planning processes for the Lending business using Anaplan, building driver-based, scenario-led forecasts aligned to lending volumes, margins and risk.
• Develop and continuously improve financial models and MI, reducing manual effort while increasing analytical depth and insight quality.
• Deliver high-impact modelling and analysis using Excel and Anaplan, including scenario modelling, sensitivities, pricing and margin analysis, and investment business cases.
• Act as a trusted senior partner to the Lending Product team - challenging assumptions, translating financial complexity into commercial language, and supporting trade-off decisions.
• Provide Executive and Board-level insight, with concise narratives that link financial outcomes to underlying business drivers.

What’s in it for you?

• High-profile role at the heart of a core Lending franchise.
• Opportunity to shape forecasting, modelling and insight across the business.
• Base salary from £72,000 - c£85,000 dependant upon experience and location.
• Enhanced family-focused benefits.
• Annual bonus opportunity up to 15%.
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays.

About us

At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become 'the bank of the future'. Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.

Do you have the skills?

You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with:

• Significant Senior Finance Business Partnering experience in Financial Services, working with executive-level stakeholders.
• Strong domain knowledge of mortgage and lending economics, including margin drivers, pricing, volume mix and EIR.
• Proven ownership of budgets and rolling forecasts, ideally using Anaplan in a driver-based, scenario-focused environment.
• Advanced Excel modelling capability - comfortable building clean, auditable models from raw data and using them to inform senior decisions.
• Experience producing Executive and Board-level MI, with clear performance narratives and recommendations.
• Confidence to challenge constructively, influence outcomes and operate as a senior commercial adviser.
• Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI) is advantageous but not essential.

Next steps

If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply. Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational - inclusive any individual reasonable support required. We want to bring out the best in you!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Not sure if you meet the spec? Let us decide. Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally. We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.