Operating at the heart of Nationwide’s Treasury function, you will be a part of shaping the new Treasury Optimisation team which will have a material impact on change, efficiency, and risk reduction.
This role is a fantastic opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of both technology and risk management as well as exposing you to diverse teams across both Treasury and Finance. It’s also an opportunity to support the maintenance of systems which are key to business decisions taken within the Function.
Part of a highly skilled, cross functional delivery team, you’ll develop and improve the way we deliver change across Treasury, ensuring we drive value from our technology investments. You will support projects to ensure Nationwide keeps pace with a constantly changing business landscape.
You will understand the needs of the Treasury teams through partnership to drive value add change, create efficiencies, bolster system integrity, and reduce risk. You will become a Treasury SME and the go-to for Murex change in your area, supporting with impact analysis, testing and efficient delivery.
You will be a part of shaping the purpose of the team supporting Treasury’s use of Murex through control, proactive repair, and delivery of enhancements. You will have sight of and support prioritisation of the demand backlog for change in Treasury, ensuring that outcomes are aligned to strategic objectives and teams involved are aware of priorities.
You’ll work closely with multiple teams across the Function to support the growth and development of our business through project activity, focusing on developing and improving our processes.
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 London, Swindon or Bournemouth offices.
What you’ll be doing
In direct partnership with the Treasury Middle Office business area you’ll become a technical subject matter expert, working together to identify areas where we could further exploit our technology suite. You’ll act as the first point of contact for any technical queries or system related issues, proactively identifying training requirements and liaising with external stakeholders to deliver these.
At the centre of new Treasury product proposals, you’ll liaise with the rest of the Optimisation team and wider Treasury to support with scoping, articulation of future benefits and ongoing communications. Additionally, you’ll work with the Treasury business and technology team to reduce your areas change backlog by prioritising effectively and supporting end-to end testing.
Enhancing system control and reducing operational risk will form key parts of the role; from proactively monitoring system integrity through enhanced reporting, to identifying areas for reduced manual intervention. You’ll utilise enhanced Murex access to aid incident investigation, undertake support tasks and coordinate repairs.
About you
As a minimum, you will have:
* A knowledge of treasury, ideally with a “middle office” reporting background and understanding of liquidity, capital or accounting.
* Experience using Murex or equivalent treasury systems management experience
* Strong communication skills up to Senior Leadership team level with the ability to challenge when needed.
* Self-motivated with an ability to learn technical concepts quickly
* Strong time management and the ability to prioritise effectively
* Experience of delivering change with experience of prioritising multiple workstreams
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.
The extras you’ll get
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
What makes us different
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.
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.
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