Finance Officer in Southampton

At Ordnance Survey, we’re passionate about creating a world built on accurate, accessible geospatial data. Behind every map, dataset, and innovation is a dedicated team ensuring our business runs smoothly - including our Finance Operations team. We’re looking for a skilled and proactive Finance Officer to help drive the timely and accurate processing of financial transactions, maintain robust financial controls, and support the organisation in meeting its financial targets. If you’re motivated, detail‑focused, and enjoy improving processes, this could be the perfect fit.

What you’ll do:

• Process high volumes of financial transactions to agreed SLAs with accuracy and consistency.
• Take ownership of your workload, working independently, prioritising effectively, and meeting deadlines without direct supervision.
• Investigate and challenge discrepancies, ensuring full compliance with financial policies and statutory requirements.
• Maintain, monitor, and continually develop financial processes, controls, and procedures to mitigate risks including audit and fraud.
• Support and deliver change initiatives to improve the operational performance of finance systems and processes.
• Analyse, plan, implement, and evaluate activities to minimise disruption and enhance service performance.
• Provide excellent service to internal and external customers, ensuring a positive customer experience every time.
• Build strong working relationships across the business – acting as a subject‑matter expert and helping colleagues understand financial policies and information.
• Identify root causes of financial issues and present clear, actionable recommendations.
• Lead or contribute to financial projects, including system implementations and process transformation.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and year‑end reporting cycles to help inform financial planning and decision‑making.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience processing financial transactions at scale.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work autonomously.
• Confidence to challenge non‑compliance and resolve issues constructively.
• Knowledge of financial controls, statutory requirements, and audit processes.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience shaping or supporting process changes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across a business.
• Ability to analyse problems, identify causes, and recommend solutions.
• Experience supporting financial reporting cycles (monthly/quarterly/year‑end).

The Rewards:

• Salary £24,628 to £28,732 (dependent on experience).
• Performance related bonus up to 10%.
• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%).
• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining plus bank holidays (3 taken over Christmas).
• Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Free subscription to OS Maps.
• Access to online learning platforms.
• Coaching and Mentoring schemes.
• Plus a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits.

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like:

• An extra days’ leave for each year you work, up to 33 days.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Hybrid working.
• Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton.
• We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances.
• Eyecare Vouchers.
• OS Explorers Nursery discount.
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be required to split your time evenly, 50% in HQ and 50% working remotely.

Security: OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.

Closing date: Sunday 5th April at 23:59. Interviews will take place via Teams. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role; therefore, you must have the right to work in the UK, without the need for employer sponsorship. We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

Research indicates that women, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community members, neurodiverse individuals, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ordnance Survey, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace where everyone can thrive. If you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the ideal candidate for this or other roles within Ordnance Survey.

Skills required for this role:

• Accounts Payable.
• Process Accounts Receivable (AR).
• Auditing (Inactive).
• Compliance.
• Finance.
• Financial Performance.
• Financial Transactions Management.
• Reporting.