Associate Director in Leeds

We like promoting our own, so we encourage internal growth, but not just upwards. We want you to have the chance to move into broader roles and into different areas if you’d like to expand your experience. Fancy a new opportunity? You’ve come to the right place. We’re at our best when we have something to drive us forward. A belief that underlines who we are and what we do. Our Purpose. We want to make people happier about money – and that idea starts with every single one of us here at Nationwide.

Exciting opportunities exist within our Yorkshire & North-East Strategic Finance team right now. Our Strategic Finance team supports commercial, corporate, PLC and private equity backed businesses in our region and across the UK. If you're passionate and ambitious about playing a key role in helping shape and grow our business, then please read on.

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 be covering Yorkshire and the Northeast of England so will need to be based locally as you will be expected to regularly travel to meet customers across this region. Additionally, there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our offices. This is anticipated to be weekly in Leeds; however, the location may vary.

You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefitting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.

• Access to private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives. If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society. We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What you’ll be doing: Our Associate Director will be a key member of the Yorkshire & Northeast Strategic Finance team, with a primary focus on supporting larger mid-market, Corporate and PLC customers and prospects. You’ll assist with relationship management of corporate customers, and activities focused on the growth of the portfolio, helping Directors with their business development activities, the strengthening of the brand in the local and regional marketplace, and the development and expansion of the team’s external network.

Working with Corporate Directors, you’ll evaluate and generate opportunities with existing and new customers, from initial meetings through to the completion of new transactions, including the analysis of new business proposals and undertaking independent research on companies and sub-sectors. You’ll assist with the preparation of detailed credit applications regarding existing customers and new proposals, including contributing to the preparation and analysis of financial models alongside instructing, completing and processing internal and external documentation to ensure loan and security documentation is prepared and in order and due diligence is correctly scoped.

You’ll provide our new customers with a seamless on-boarding experience, working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to support Corporate Directors, ensuring compliance on all credit, operations, loan administration and other risk and administrative matters as necessary. By monitoring ongoing compliance with the facility agreement and covenants, you’ll ensure that all pre- and post-deal housekeeping and internal compliance requirements are met and you will liaise with customers, various Agency functions and Credit teams in respect of existing customer reviews and consent requests.

About you: As a minimum requirement, you’ll have/be:

• A passion for – and good experience of – supporting larger corporate businesses and delivering outstanding B2B customer service
• Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills (including Excel financial modelling skills) with an ability to understand and interpret financial statements and due diligence reports
• Strong organisational and relationship management skills to deliver excellent levels of customer service, high standards of work and outstanding attention to detail
• Capacity to cope with complex situations, tight deadlines and to have a flexible approach to challenges and problem solving
• Good interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to assimilate, understand and efficiently present information to various stakeholders to produce effective customer outcomes
• A strong team player

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel – We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight – We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better – We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done – We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.