Audit Manager - Credit Risk

We’re looking for someone who is up for a challenge – tenacious and positive in your approach, energetic and willing to try new approaches with a learning mindset, who can really make a difference as part of our award-winning Internal Audit Function.

As an Audit Manager – Credit Risk in the Central Functions team you’ll lead Credit Risk related audits, taking responsibility for scoping and planning, execution, and reporting. You’ll be focused on identifying controls which mitigate key business risks and assessing their adequacy and effectiveness, providing audit opinions to quality and time. You will also take responsibility for co-ordinating the delivery team, identifying development needs and coaching individuals to achieve their performance objectives.

In return you will be given the opportunity to develop your career in Audit and a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge about the end-to-end operations of a customer-focused financial services organisation.

Internal Audit (IA) are a 100+ strong community with backgrounds in everything from Financial Crime and Compliance to IT and Retail. We use our expertise, critical thinking, and experience to complete internal audits across the whole Society.

We work in a fast paced, customer-focused, and friendly environment and have an unmatched opportunity to interact with and add value to the largest building society in the world.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

You will be expected to work from one either Northampton, London, Swindon or Bournemouth twice per week.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

Working collaboratively with your colleagues you’ll use your subject matter knowledge in retail secured and unsecured Credit Risk (decisioning through to forbearance) and audit skills to deliver high quality, impactful audits. This will be in accordance with an agreed scope and in line with IA methodologies.
Once you’ve analysed the design and effectiveness of controls, and spotted areas for improvement in the focus and/or efficiency of the team’s work, you’ll then be called upon to use your influencing skills in order to present these potential improvements to senior management.
Following final publication of your audit report, you’ll keep in contact with your business stakeholders as they look to implement the required improvements. When the audit issues have been resolved, you’ll validate that the work they’ve undertaken mitigates the risk that was highlighted.
You will also communicate regularly and effectively with other members of IA to ensure that work is appropriately coordinated and key messages from business engagement meetings are shared with relevant IA colleagues.

Throughout your work you will be utilising agile auditing techniques to support efficient planning and delivery of high-quality audits that maximise the value of audit work in accordance with agreed scope and in line with audit methodology.

About you

We are looking for an individual with significant audit management experience, including in relation to Credit Risk within a banking environment. A recognised audit qualification is desirable, although not essential.

As a minimum, you’ll have:

• Experience and professional knowledge of the latest developments including best practice audit guidelines, Credit Risk exposures and management strategies, and regulatory expectations to influence our audit approach and strategy.
• Recent experience within an Audit Management or a similar Assurance Management role
• Significant knowledge and experience of retail secured and unsecured Credit Risk, from decisioning through to forbearance, and with an understanding of associated financial and accounting impacts. You will be an SME who can lead the way.
• Exceptional organisational skills to support delivery of varying complexity audit activities, ensuring high quality results and full compliance with our audit methodology.
• Experience of producing clear, comprehensive and concise documentation which will support your audit work.
• Familiarity with data analytics techniques to support insightful assurance activity.
• Be able to identify and assess the input, processing and output risks and controls (both manual and automated) for a given business process.
• Experience of documenting and evaluating the information flow within a business process.
• Coach your colleagues to build their skills and confidence, particularly with regards to Credit Risk, providing feedback and helping them to be their best and deliver efficiently to the highest professional standards.
• Confidently influence others and build professional business relationships, demonstrating your proven collaboration and negotiating skills.
• Be tenacious, positive, and brave in your approach, will always be supported to be your most productive and best self.
• Be comfortable with change and identifying continuous improvements to deliver our audit strategy and improve.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

What to do next

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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