Senior Consultant Treasury - Liquidity Reporting Change in Swindon

This is a fantastic chance to join Nationwide’s Liquidity Reporting and Forecasting function, at a time when the Liquidity Change team is supporting integration activity following an acquisition. The Liquidity Change team is responsible for overseeing changes required to the production and review of liquidity reporting and forecasting processes, ensuring we are setup for integration, future regulatory and business changes as well as supporting the efficiency agenda.

This is a lead change role, responsibility includes supporting with the assessment and delivery of required change to liquidity regulatory reporting, liquidity internal reporting and liquidity forecasting activity undertaken for planning and various stress testing activity. You’ll manage this change delivery through a team of liquidity business SMEs, supporting detailed workload planning and delivery of critical internal and regulatory liquidity reporting and forecasting.

The keys to success in this role are:

• Experience of delivering large-scale change through formal projects to Liquidity reporting and forecasting processes;
• Proven track record in managing project delivery through a small team of business SMEs, including direct and indirect line management;
• An ability to thrive under evolving change requirements and to work to tight project timescales for deliverables;
• Clear communication and relationship building skills, including to senior stakeholders and external parties;
• An excellent ability to build out project documentation and governance, including detailed workload planning, tracking and escalation;
• A wide range of technical balance sheet knowledge, including retail, treasury and accounting.

The Liquidity Change team forms part of the wider Reporting & Forecasting team within the Treasury function at Nationwide. This role will report to a Senior Manager in the Liquidity and Product Risk Reporting 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 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. If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing: Working in the Liquidity change team, you will be responsible for delivering change to Liquidity reporting and forecasting, including for integration, through a team of business SMEs supported by programme leads. You’ll play a leadership role in a dynamic change team with a high required volume of change delivery across multiple projects and business change demand that will mean you’ll be organised, able to problem solve to support the team while ensuring all demands and deliverables are met. As we are at the heart of the business, you’ll have exposure to senior management, the ability to shape and influence the team and wider team agenda as well as managing key stakeholder relationships.

About you

As a minimum you’ll have:

• Proven track record in working in an agile project environment, delivering change through others, managing multiple projects and stakeholders;
• Excellent leadership skills with evidence of delivering outstanding results through a team, including an ability to deal with conflicting demands and prioritise deliverables;
• Well-rounded analytical skills with an ability to review highly technical reporting or forecasting to validate change requirements;
• A history of undertaking liquidity regulatory, internal reporting or forecasting in a finance or treasury environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Advanced excel skills including VBA; proficiency in building new/improving existing formulae and macro-driven spreadsheets.

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

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 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. The hiring manager for this role is Smitaben Patel, and the main recruitment contact is Kris Mason. Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Consultant Treasury.