Finance Manager (Swindon)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our Financial Reconciliations team. The Financial Reconciliations team sits at the heart of Nationwide’s Financial Reporting and is accountable for reconciling key elements of Nationwide’s balance sheet. We are seeking to grow the team with high calibre individuals.

As the Finance Manager in the team, you will be accountable for formulating and executing the team’s vision, ensuring that our reconciliations are fit for purpose, operating efficiently and are in line with our control framework. You will be responsible for managing a large team of over 40 financial reconcilers providing oversight and guidance. The role is expected to provide strong leadership and strategic direction, provide accounting knowledge and build enduring stakeholder relationships.

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. For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at our Swindon office.

You will be working in an agile environment, expected to make decisions at pace. You will understand the importance of controls in the reconciliations which we run and you’ll be able to lead the team to deliver to a high quality. You will be demonstrating your strong leadership skills as you coordinate and lead in a fast-paced environment with a large team, multiple stakeholders and priorities.

You will be excellent at managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds, both internally and externally, at various levels of the organisation. You will be skilled at generating a culture of collaboration and managing conflicting accountabilities. You’ll work closely with colleagues and senior leaders within the Financial Reconciliations team and be expected to express your opinions in a clear and professional manner.

You have an important role to drive the team forward to become more controlled, effective and efficient whilst operating in line with the Society’s strategic blueprint.

• An experienced accountant with relevant qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• An experienced leader with management experience.
• Able to display stakeholder management and relationship building skills, at all levels of the organisation
• Able to make decisions independently, keeping relevant parties informed
• Able to manage multiple conflicting priorities and identify the right course of action for the Society.
• Financial Reconciliations experience.
• Experience of working within a large financial services organisation

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.

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

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.