What is the salary like at OSB Group?

The best culture and good pay.

Awful systems and outsourced IT function isn’t always helpful.

salary will be good, and flexibility is the advantage

Politics may be there, which is common in many companies

People are the heart of the business. Office has recently been renovated and is modern. Benefits outside of your salary are good. Underwriting team managers are brilliant.

Staff are consistently undervalued, and for the past two consecutive years redundancies have been carried out under different labels, yet the end result has been the same. Salaries are not competitive compared with other specialist lenders, and the recent underwriting salary “rebenchmarking” only highlighted this further. Some employees received no adjustment at all because their April increase had already pushed them just above the new baseline, while others received around £1,000 — which felt more insulting than supportive. Despite reassurances that roles were secure, more than 50 people were made redundant only three days later. We are regularly told via internal updates that the business is performing well and in line with expectations, but the actions taken paint a very different picture. Career progression is also limited, with a mandatory two–year minimum in your current role before you can even be considered for promotion. I was genuinely excited to build my career at OSB, but both myself and many of my colleagues in underwriting have been left disappointed and are now actively exploring opportunities elsewhere.

Good pay Good teams to work with Supportive colleagues

Inflexible management to new ideas and ways of working

Good pay as compare to markey

Police is lot here, Bengalis

Collaborative, customer-focused culture. Ambitious leadership driven by values, vision, and a commitment to people. Tons of stretch and development opportunities. Genuine energy in the organisation - the excitement about the future of OSB is palpable

Tech that is catching up with ambition Not the highest salary but a strong overall package

Good environment to work There is work life balance Take agent level issues seriously by management

No Transparency in salary Apart from this everything is fine

People are the heart of the business. Office has recently been renovated and is modern. Benefits outside of your salary are good. Underwriting team managers are brilliant.

Staff are consistently undervalued, and for the past two consecutive years redundancies have been carried out under different labels, yet the end result has been the same. Salaries are not competitive compared with other specialist lenders, and the recent underwriting salary “rebenchmarking” only highlighted this further. Some employees received no adjustment at all because their April increase had already pushed them just above the new baseline, while others received around £1,000 — which felt more insulting than supportive. Despite reassurances that roles were secure, more than 50 people were made redundant only three days later. We are regularly told via internal updates that the business is performing well and in line with expectations, but the actions taken paint a very different picture. Career progression is also limited, with a mandatory two–year minimum in your current role before you can even be considered for promotion. I was genuinely excited to build my career at OSB, but both myself and many of my colleagues in underwriting have been left disappointed and are now actively exploring opportunities elsewhere.

Great co-workers Employees genuinely want to do the right thing

Poor technology (still on Citrix system and you will have to use your own laptop when working from home. Salaries are low No flexible working

- Having been at the Bank from the old days of toxic atmospheres and progression limited to if you face fits! I can genuinely say to see where it is now I feel proud to say I work for OSB! Salary is competitive, progression is based on both experience and behaviours! The bigger benefits such as mat leave, compassionate leave, and hybrid working are great but even the smaller benefits such as ice cream in the summer (and the CEO even serves on the van to make it more personal) , vouchers to say thank you for your hard work make staff feel appreciated. They are also extremely flexible if something happens at home and you need to work from home for a few days! I have seen a number of CEOs over the years but Andy is definitely the best we have had! He is on our level and spends time with his staff and takes an interest in them unlike previous CEOs who never left their ivory towers!! I can’t speak for other teams, but, although our team is huge, everyone works hard together well, when busy we all pull together and live the #oneteam ethos but also socialise as a team like the whole team bowling!Show me a company that has grown as much as we have and still maintained the family atmosphere! We’ve had a number of staff that have previously left the business for other roles elsewhere but we have had a number of them come back because other companies fall short! With the changes that are happening it can only get better! - They also give back to the community by giving every member of staff 14 hours to carry out volunteer work in either the company’s charity or other charities of your choice. - they are very disability aware, there are disabled parking spaces, lifts, toilets and emergency evac chairs for emergencies, specialist equipment such as rising desks/chair and mental health first aiders throughout the company.

Definitely the Systems, however, again being there as long as I have, I have seen the progression from the truly archaic to what it is now and the difference is extensive! Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, the company is investing heavily on improving this further!