This is a technical & varied role at the heart of an ongoing project to implement an intelligent planning (EPM) tool within the Financial Planning & Stress Testing (FP&ST) team and wider Finance Function. You will play an important part in maintaining the Society's key cost planning tool (Board), supporting numerous stakeholders across the business in managing the society's cost reporting alongside our cost forecasting capabilities. The role sits in the Board Centre of Excellence (CoE) Team within FP&ST focussed on maintaining & operating the application. As we operate a flexible team structure the key responsibilities for the position will reflect the skill set of the successful applicant and will include: Maintenance of the Board intelligent planning tool. Managing the Profit & Cost Management Allocation process, ensuring cost allocations remain highly accurate and monthly reports available on time. Become a Subject Matter Expert on the BOARD Platform, provide necessary training and support to Finance Colleagues and the wider business. Supporting Finance Colleagues with the top-down & bottom-up Forecast process, ensuring configuration is set up correctly to allow the monthly roll-forward and providing best practice guidance to Users. Manage the Structure Change & Budget Transfer Process, supporting with change requests and maintaining alignment across all Finance & HR Systems. Ensure Process Documentation & End User Training Guides are kept up-to-date. Development of Jira Helpdesk to respond to User Queries and support in producing a dashboard for Senior Leadership Team to highlight key areas where queries are raised. Data management and exploitation. You will have the ability to prioritise tasks whilst at the same time supporting other members of the team to deliver in a fast-paced environment. Continuous improvement is at the heart of everything we do, and you will be influential in not only embedding efficiency into our processes & outputs but also progressing the Board agenda within the wider Finance 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 spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at our Swindon Office. 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. If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can. What you'll be doing The Board CoE Team within FP&ST works to build our Cost forecasting and analysis capabilities through: Operating & developing the tool set and improving our ability to meet the business performance needs. Analysing business requirements, converting them into technical requirements, estimate delivery, develop, and test solutions to support the end user group. Work under the guidance of the Board Project Leads and closely with the Board project team to ensure smooth project delivery Be responsive to customer requests and support the mitigation of any concerns You will be working within the Board CoE run team, focusing on maintaining the key aspects of the Board functionality. This will provide foundational understanding of the Board application and enable the building of business relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Working closely with the Board CoE & end users, you will be responsible for ensuring that the existing build remains robust and functional. Whilst on this journey, you will play a key role in developing a robust controls environment to build confidence in the outputs we provide. This requires a collaborative & coordinated approach to ensure high-quality solutions are delivered on time, using your problem-solving skills to identify issues and work these through to root-cause, whilst ensuring the required policy and processes are adhered to. About you The ideal candidate will be friendly and approachable and looking to progress their career and system development skills in Finance. They will be interested in how this role fits into the wider Society. They will be pragmatic, valuing a range of viewpoints and providing positive and constructive feedback. They will be able to conduct detailed analysis and work collaboratively with analysts to drive efficiency across the Finance function. They will also be able to step back from the detail and reflect on the bigger picture to deliver the right outcomes for our stakeholders and Nationwide as a whole. This role is all about delivering for the Society whilst developing technical skills, so you'll need to have: Experience of analysing financial data and discussing outcomes and opportunities Experience of working in a regulated environment, for example Financial Services, Energy or Telecoms. Experience of managing complex data sets A pro-active approach to managing workload & projects along with the ability to deal with and prioritise conflicting demands. 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. Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand. Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members. Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome. We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance. 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. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead. 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. LI-POST