Senior Consultant Risk & Control Partnering in Swindon

We are looking for a pro-active, self-motivated, and dynamic Senior Consultant, Risk Control and Partnering to join the Retail Risk business function. Your role will present a great opportunity to work in our Retail Risk function, as a first line Risk expert helping ensure application of key process, policy and risk changes which support performance expectations and good customer outcomes, meeting our strategic and regulatory expectations.

This is a 12-month secondment opportunity. 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, based at either our Swindon, London, Northampton, Glasgow or Dunfermline office.

If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. 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.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be working in Retail but also alongside your colleagues across the Society to maintain a safe risk environment by ensuring we join the dots and provide holistic risk insight and reporting that will help the function to manage its risk.
• A typical day will mean providing risk expertise, objective advice and actionable insight to one or more teams within Retail.
• This will include risks that could result from ongoing business activities, regulatory changes, small through to large strategic change and process mapping.
• You will identify read-across from 3LOD reviews and translating that into supporting documents, tracking through the outputs and supporting data quality within risk systems and using the data to provide insight and reporting.
• You will provide holistic support of multi-functional impacting programmes, ensuring risk assessments reflect an overall picture of the risk environment while staying abreast of regulatory and legislative change which may impact the risk environment, working with risk owners to ensure appropriate steps are in place to mitigate future risk.
• Working across functions to build relationships that will support the gathering and sharing of information to support Retails understanding of the wider environment you will deputise as appropriate for other risk Manager(s) and/or Senior Manager, which will include participating in senior committees and forums as well as leading meetings and contributing to projects.

About you:

• The minimum requirements for the role are:
• Practitioner level experience working in a first line risk environment within financial services.
• Experience in providing accurate, expert pragmatic risk advice.
• A logical, inquisitive mind with the ability to be objective and to cut through complexity.
• Proven ability to demonstrate decisiveness and sound judgement on a consistent basis.
• Strong relationship management, communication and influencing skills to help build trust and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders across all levels of the society and externally.
• A proactive, collaborative and solution-oriented approach.

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.

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.

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.