Legal Counsel

**About the team**:
We are a diverse, high-performing and highly-engaged in-house legal team. We have an excellent reputation for being both skilled technical legal advisers and pragmatic business facilitators. As part of the Group Legal, Company Secretariat and Environmental,Social and Governance team, we advise clients throughout the business (including at Executive Committee and Board level) on the broad range of strategic and operational legal matters that arise from a successful and growing specialist lender / retail savingsbank.

Our core legal practices are each led by a dedicated senior technical specialist across the Savings, Mortgages/Real Estate, Capital Markets, Commercial/Litigation, Corporate, Data Protection and Projects areas.

We have lawyers in the Group's offices in Chatham, Wolverhampton and London and we gain huge benefits from working together in person in these offices, balanced with hybrid home working. We use technology to connect across offices to operate the team efficiently,to share knowledge at regular team meetings and to advise the business as a unified legal team, regardless of location. We're a welcoming and friendly team that enjoy working together, as evidenced by the successful full team offsites and other social andCSR activities during the year.

**Our philosophy**:
**What you will be doing**:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to assit the Group on legal and regulatory matters relating to retail and commercial mortgages, conveyancing, and other aspects of retail and commercial lending operations as well as real estate.

Your responsibilities will also include
- Advising the Group on all aspects of Residential, Buy-to-let and 2nd Charge Mortgages law and regulation, lending operations and mortgage servicing, conveyancing and other legal aspects of secured lending
- Ensuring legal risk in the Group is adequately identified, mitigated and reported in the course of giving advice
- Working within the Legal team to monitor and report on changes in legislation
- Providing any other legal assistance that is required by the Group General Counsel & Company Secretary Group Heads of Legal and Senior Legal Counsels across a broad range of matters including assessing and reporting to senior management on legal risk acrossthe business
- Attending and representing the Bank, if required, at relevant external forums.

**In return for your commitment**:
We offer a base salary dependent on experience and a competitive benefits package.

Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB:
**Could you be the one?**

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

- Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales and holds current SRA practising certificate. Knowledge of the law and regulation/regulatory guidance around retail mortgage lending and Real Estate is essential.
- Knowledge of property conveyancing, particularly in relation to mortgage lending 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.

**What to do next**

Alternatively, if you wish to have an informal and confidential chat about this role please contact us on
- 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 andinclusion 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 establishinga 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._

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