Careers at Oxbury
Join Oxbury, the UK’s specialist agricultural bank, the only bank 100% dedicated to British Farmers
Graduate and Placement Programme
When you join Oxbury as a graduate or on student placement, your contribution will make a real difference to the lives of British farmers.
Our structured programme is designed to provide you with the training and practical skills you will need to thrive in your future career with Oxbury.
What you will need
A Bachelor’s degree (or working towards) and a background in, or in-depth knowledge of farming or agriculture.
How to apply
Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your experience, motivations, and suitability for our graduate or student placement programme to careers@oxbury.com.
If your written application is successful, you will be invited to attend an assessment centre (this may be online). Selected candidates will then be asked to attend a final interview. You can explore our current opportunities in further detail below.
Current Opportunities for Graduates and Placements - September 2024
As a Trainee Agricultural Relationship Manager you will work closely day to day with the Agricultural Relationship Managers. You will be responsible for the day to day management of your farmer portfolio, delivering a first-class service and ensuring that we deliver on the promises we make.
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Agricultural Banking Specialist specifically aligned to the (Oxbury Farm Credit) and Campaign products Team which is office based and customer facing. The role is a critical part of Oxbury’s customer service offering.
Although this role will be office based it will also involve accompanied external distributor and farmer visits in order to support and grow our customer base. You will also work closely with the wider sales team and credit risk managers to gain experience and develop your skills.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Oxbury’s IT function is central to the way we operate. From the outset, our business leaders and IT team have worked closely together to deliver an advanced banking platform that fulfils the unique requirements of our target market.
Our cloud native architecture is fully containerised and makes use of the latest serverless technologies to provide a performant and resilient solution. We have adopted best of breed technologies to implement future thinking features such as biometric authentication, advanced analytics and a self-healing microservices platform.
Over the course of 18 months, you will spend time in four key areas of our IT team to be chosen from: service desk, infrastructure, development, testing, security, project delivery and design. This will give you a real insight into the workings of a high-performance IT team.
You will be allocated a mentor throughout your time on the programme who will help you to grow and eventually decide on an area to settle into.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Oxbury’s IT function is central to the way we operate. From the outset, our business leaders and IT team have worked closely together to deliver an advanced banking platform that fulfils the unique requirements of our target market.
Over the course of 12 months, you will spend time in four key areas of our IT team to be chosen from: service desk, infrastructure, development, testing, security, project delivery and design. This will give you a real insight into the workings of a high-performance IT team.
You will be allocated a mentor throughout your time on the programme.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Oxbury’s Operations function is the engine of the bank ensuring that we meet and exceed our customers expectations.
We are looking for candidates who have the capacity and confidence to quickly understand work practices and implement them. A knowledge of banking is not essential as we can provide that, but candidates should be committed to undertake the training/reading necessary to understand the regulated environment for the financial industry and apply that knowledge to the processes and controls Oxbury has in place.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Find out what some of our graduate and placement students have to say about working at Oxbury!
We are always looking for new talent
Oxbury has been built for farmers and is backed by farmers. This ethos underpins everything we do, including our approach to recruiting new team members. We look for people with not only the right technical skills and knowledge, but for people who are passionate about supporting British farmers and agriculture.
From Product Development through to Customer Relationship Management, everyone in our business plays a vital role in supporting our farmers and helping to build a sustainable future for British food and farming.
Whether you are a new graduate embarking on your career or an experienced professional, if you have a passion for farming and agriculture, along with a background in banking and/or financial technology, we want to hear from you.
If you are interested, please email your CV to careers@oxbury.com.
What are the benefits of working at Oxbury Bank?
Whatever your role at Oxbury, you can be assured that you will have the opportunity to thrive in a fast-paced environment that will challenge and support you to be successful.
Displayed below are the type of benefits you can expect when working at Oxbury:
- Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
- Private Medical Healthcare
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Company Share Options
- Employee Referral Scheme
Current Opportunities at Oxbury Bank
Responsible for credit risk activities of Oxbury Bank, with a focus on Asset Finance, including underwriting, ensuring, where required security is correctly held, provide support for compliance matters, and assist with default and recoveries.
Ensure that Oxbury lending is conducted on sound commercial and professional principles which place customers at the heart of its activities and achieves its defined corporate objectives whilst being underpinned by a framework of prudent and effective controls which enable risk to be assessed, managed, and controlled.
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Savings Customer Services Specialist is responsible for supporting our existing and prospective savers. Savers will interact with Oxbury via a variety of channels which include online secure messages, telephone, email, post and webchat.
The savings customer services team is responsible for all customer servicing including account opening, payments in and out, statements and managing the maturity process.
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Earth Project Manager will improve the User Experience of, and Customer Outcomes deriving from, the Earth platform by:
- Maintain the product roadmap and co-ordinate delivery using jira to track progress
- Co-ordinating the creation and prioritisation of Change Requests by colleagues across the business. Collaborating with the Technical Author to ensure that Platform documentation is relevant, accurate and helpful.
- Leveraging strong relationships with the Earth development team to maintain a deep understanding of the platform as it evolves.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Working as part of our operations team in our Chester office you will conduct a hybrid role which includes transaction monitoring / payment screening and complaint handling across all products ensuring that service level agreements are met, if necessary, escalate to compliance and identifying and mitigating root causes. Other activities will include assisting the lending, asset finance and savings team with new projects, mediating between the operations teams and IT in raising change requests to support and develop system functionality and follow through to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Asset Finance Onboarding and Customer Service Specialists report to the Asset Finance Operations Manager. Responsible supporting the sales team in delivery of the business plan by receiving finance proposals from the broker network and keying them into the Oxbury CRM system. Responsible for undertaking defined process steps to check companies and individuals through our onboarding journey, this includes performing all due diligence checks and you will need to have the ability to investigate any queries escalating with our compliance area if required. You will be responsible for generating finance and security documentation and progressing your deals to pay out. First class communications skills will deliver exceptional service to both the customers and broker networks.
For more information and to apply, click here.
How applicant data will be processed by Oxbury
Oxbury Bank Plc is aware of its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and current data protection legislation and is committed to processing your data securely and transparently. The following privacy notice sets out, in line with data protection obligations, the types of data that we collect and hold on you as a job applicant. It also sets out how we use that information, how long we keep it for and other relevant information about your data.