Audit Manager – Investigations Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Audit Investigations team, within Internal Audit. Working in an audit environment, assignments will be more diverse, complex and high profile in nature arising from a variety of sources such as Whistleblowing and requests from EXCO, the Board and other senior stakeholders. This is a challenging, fast moving, varied but rewarding role, requiring fast learning, quick thinking and the ability to switch priorities at short notice and shift between subjects and assignments without missing a beat.

The team plays an important role in responding to concerns of significant potential or actual wrongdoing, misconduct, or behaviours towards others. To ensure that these are appropriately assessed, investigated and, where necessary, action taken - genuinely making a difference and contributing to upholding the Society’s values.

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 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

• Through investigations and ad-hoc audit activity, via document reviews, desk-based analysis, investigative interviews and by applying your natural curiosity and tenacity you will work with colleagues, but sometimes alone, to undertake high quality and insightful investigations and reviews.
• Gathering and reviewing information and evidence from a variety of sources you will form robust conclusions and evidence-based opinions.
• You will present your findings in a variety of ways including through insightful reports, presentations and face to face meetings, demonstrating your influencing skills and making value add recommendations where appropriate.
• Maintaining the highest standards ensuring that investigations and reviews are compliant with rigorous regulatory, legal and professional standards and our Internal Methodology, you will continuously develop processes and approach in line with a changing legal/regulatory landscape and industry standards.
• You will liaise with appropriate internal teams including Legal, Compliance, People & Culture and Financial Crime.
• You will support the Audit Senior Investigation Manager for example, contributing to updates and reports to Audit Committee, other Boards and senior stakeholders, assisting with planning and reviewing team MI.

About you

As a minimum requirement, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Significant experience in audit, investigation, compliance or a similar discipline, leading reviews, delivering insightful findings and writing and presenting high quality reports and papers for senior stakeholders and committees.
• Experience of conducting investigations or audit reviews, demonstrating good judgement and integrity in determining the findings, offering an evidence based opinion and making appropriate recommendations.
• Experience, with Financial Services, Whistleblowing, Compliance, Legal or Security reviews and/or investigations.
• Strong communication skills. You will need to demonstrate excellent investigative interviewing skills and experience of communicating complex, sometimes challenging, messages to a wide range of stakeholders through reports and verbally through presentations, attendance at committees and meetings and interpersonally in small groups or one to one.
• The ability to learn new information fast, getting to grips with unfamiliar subjects quickly and knowing when to seek further guidance.
• Personal drive and self-initiative to be able to deliver a relatively unpredictable variety and volume of work to a high standard often to tight deadlines.
• High levels of integrity, ensuring confidentiality and demonstrating neutrality and discretion at all times so that concerns are fully investigated, and appropriate decision-making governance is applied. 

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

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us. 

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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