Technical Analyst Developer - Board, QRM, Power BI

This is a technical & varied role at the heart of the Financial Planning & Stress Testing (FP&ST) team. You will play an important part in preparing and continually developing the Society’s key financial planning tools (Board, QRM, Power BI), supporting numerous stakeholders across the business in managing the society’s financial performance and risk metrics alongside our financial forecasting capabilities.

As we operate a flexible team structure the key responsibilities for the position will reflect the skill set of the successful applicant and will include:

• Delivery of Financial Planning processes across our Balance Sheet, Cost Base and/or Income.
• Insight and Analysis on the Societies finanancial performance against the plan.
• Development of the Society’s key financial planning tools (QRM, Board, Power BI).
• Continuous process improvement to embed efficiency throughout everything we deliver
• Enhancing and maintaining robust controls.
• Data management and exploitation.
• Business Partnering with stakeholders to meet internal and regulatory reporting need.
• Analysing business requirements, converting them into technical requirements, estimate delivery, develop, and test solutions in various technologies to support the Board CoE.

You will have the ability to prioritise tasks whilst at the same time supporting other members of the team to deliver in a fast-paced environment. Continuous improvement is at the heart of everything we do, and you will be influential in not only embedding efficiency into our processes & outputs but also progressing the agenda within the wider FP&ST Team.

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 in Swindon or London.

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

The Financial Planning Centre of Excellence Teams within FP&ST work to build our financial forecasting and analysis capabilities through:

• Operating & developing the tool set and improving our ability to meet the business performance needs.
• Delivering Insight & Analysis on key forecasting processes and Balance Sheet Risk metrics

Our key deliverables include the Group Financial Plan and Stress Testing activities which run throughout the year, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB) risk metrics which form part of our board risk appetite, and a number of regulatory returns made on a quarterly basis. These activities will require working alongside a number of key stakeholders across F&E to ensure our reporting and analysis capabilities are suitable to manage the Society’s Cost Base, Balance Sheet and earnings risk as reports to ExCo, ALCo and externally.

You will be responsible for improving the efficiency of our processes and delivering insight and analysis across a range of deliverables. Whilst on this journey, you will play a key role in developing a robust controls environment to build confidence in the outputs we provide.

About you

As a minimum requirement you’ll need to have:

• Ability to analyse and present financial data to a range of stakeholders.
• Have experience developing and managing complex data sets and financial planning systems such as Board or QRM.
• Knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI.
• Strong Excel skills and eye for detail.
• A pro-active approach to managing workload & projects along with the ability to deal with and prioritise conflicting demands.
• Drive and enthusiasm to continually deliver improvements.
• Proven experience of working in a highly controlled environment

It would be nice, but not essential, for you to have:

• Experience of financial forecasting (income, cost, and/or balance sheet).
• Experience of coding languages such as VBA or SQL.

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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