Reconciliations Financial Administrator

This is an opportunity to join a fast paced, dedicated team who deal with the day to day reconciliations of the Society’s financial transactions. Your responsibilities will include managing the balancing and exception handling for a suite of accounts, as well as challenging the efficiency and effectiveness of processes.

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.

A requirement of this role will be to attend our Swindon office 2 days each 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

• You’ll be responsible for managing your account workload including daily balancing, exception handling and query management. You’ll also be trained to provide cover across your squad.
• You’ll be encouraged to suggest process improvements and engage with stakeholders to implement change.
• You’ll work closely with the Financial Reconciliations management team to drive us towards becoming more effective and efficient, as we strive towards our ‘Reconciliations of the Future’ vision.

About you

As a minimum requirement you’ll:

• have financial reconciliations experience.
• have a basic understanding of accounting.
• have proven problem solving skills.
• Using your strong written and verbal communication skills to communicate and report to stakeholders at various levels.
• challenge the status quo.
• be confident in your decisions, take ownership, have good attention to detail, and be open and approachable.
• have strong Excel skills.
• be quick to learn new processes and adaptable to changing priorities.

We will however, also consider applicants with strong numerical academics and/or financial reconciliation experience who don’t meet all of the criteria above. 

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
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday
• Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.

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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