Risk Manager Lead in Swindon

Join Nationwide's Treasury Risk Oversight team, part of the independent second line risk function. The team plays a critical role in helping the Society achieve its Blueprint by providing trusted, forward-looking oversight of financial risks and ensuring key decisions are made with a clear understanding of their impact.

As a Risk Manager Lead, you'll support independent oversight across areas including capital, liquidity, market and treasury risks, helping the Society navigate an increasingly complex financial and regulatory environment. You'll work closely with colleagues across the business to provide insight, challenge and perspective on key financial risk matters, contributing to effective decision-making and supporting Nationwide's financial resilience. Through your analysis, expertise and constructive challenge, you'll help protect member interests and contribute to the Society's long-term success.

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 located at our nearest regional office or hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration and in some locations you’ll be expected to spend at least two days a week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, in the office.

If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

Responsibilities

• You'll support independent oversight activity across capital, liquidity, market and treasury risks, providing insight and constructive challenge on a range of important financial risk matters.
• Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll review first line risk management proposals, use data and analysis to support risk-based challenge, and help identify emerging themes that could impact Nationwide's financial resilience.
• You'll contribute to discussions at committees and governance forums by preparing clear and concise analysis and briefings on key financial risk topics.
• You'll support engagement with regulators by helping to coordinate responses to information requests and contributing to high-quality materials for discussions with the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).
• You'll also contribute to risk reporting, support continuous improvement initiatives across the team, and share your knowledge and expertise to help develop colleagues and strengthen risk capability.

The impact of your work will be seen in stronger risk management, better-informed decisions and positive outcomes for Nationwide and its members.

About you

As a minimum, you’ll have:

• Experience in financial risk, treasury risk or prudential risk oversight, with a good understanding of capital, liquidity, market and balance sheet risks.
• Good knowledge of the regulatory framework for financial risk, with the ability to analyse and challenge topics such as capital ratios, liquidity requirements, market risk practices and/or Resolvability.
• Experience providing constructive challenge and influencing stakeholders using evidence-based insight to support sound risk decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical risk concepts in a clear and accessible way to a range of audiences.
• Strong written and presentation skills, including experience preparing high-quality reports, briefing papers and committee materials.
• Experience identifying emerging risks, assessing complex issues and drawing insights from multiple sources to support effective risk oversight.
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment and contributing to governance forums and risk committees.
• The ability to build effective working relationships across teams and collaborate with colleagues to deliver positive risk outcomes.

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.

Qualifications

The extras you’ll get

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• 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

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society. We forge our own path at Nationwide. 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 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. Keeping your data and personal information confidential is important to us.

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