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Form of work
SalaryThis is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced risk professional who wants to continue to develop their career in the UK’s largest Building Society. As part of the Mortgages and Financial Wellbeing division you’ll play a key role in managing our risk profile, improving processes and ensuring good outcomes for customers.
It’s an exciting time in the Protection, Insurance & Investments team in M&FW as we onboard new partners, evolve our product set and launch new ways for our customers to engage with us helping is implement our Blueprint for a Modern Mutual - “Banking, but fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society.”
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.
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 will be collaborating extensively with stakeholders across the M&FW Product function provide insightful regulatory, operational and conduct risk expertise that enables the Society to take opportunities and manage risks in pursuit of its objectives.
You will be providing day-to-day support and constructive challenge to stakeholders across the Protection, Insurance & Investments Products, resolving issues, and identifying and evaluating the relevant risks and how we manage them.
You will understand what the business wants to do, know which risks apply, and your support and constructive challenge will enable senior stakeholders to make the right decisions that deliver good customer outcomes.
You will be expected to have an opinion, and you will need to be comfortable speaking up. This is an exciting role, and it offers an excellent opportunity for personal & career development.
About you
- Confident presenting and eloquent in the way you explain process improvements, risk and control and the impact non-compliance may have, using words and terms that people understand.
- Ability to develop strong working relationships at all levels and build credibility quickly across a breadth of Retail and Risk topics.
- Strong reasoning skills supported by a logical approach and attention to detail to allow you to draw conclusions from ambiguity, with a proven track record to join up the dots
- Excellent written (Powerpoint and Word) and verbal communication skills to produce clearly articulated and thought through risk assessments and governance papers.
- Have a strong ability to identify / drive improvements to create a best-in-class risk partnering experience.
- Motivated self-starter who is able to manage workloads and competing priorities.
- Have the confidence to not only identify problems but to collaborate with stakeholders to identify a solution and lead from the front to deliver it.
- Ability to coach and support team members and wider stakeholders whilst remaining professional and having a positive and pragmatic approach.
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.
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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
- Wellhub – 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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