Risk and Control Partnering Consultant

We are looking for a pro-active, self-motivated, and dynamic Risk Control and Partnering Consultant to join the Retail Risk business function.

Your role will present a great opportunity to work across our Retail Risk function in the Risk Advice team, where you will be an expert helping to ensure we are providing key risk support to risk teams and stakeholders. The role will be critical in enabling compliance to internal policy, risk and controls frameworks which support performance expectations and good customer outcomes, meeting our strategic and operational risk objectives.

You’ll be working alongside your colleagues in the Retail Risk to ensure that key risk, policy or process changes are safely delivered.

You’ll be responsible for managing or supporting our understanding of the risk environment, deepening connections and helping leaders to make informed risk decisions. You’ll also provide insight, manage stakeholder interactions and support wider team priorities by working on or leading projects.

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.

**What you’ll be doing**:
Main responsibilities will be:

- Supporting the completion of gap analysis, regulatory information requests and embedding best practice to identify where risks or issues lay across Retail. Often in collaboration with other 1st, 2nd and 3rd line of defence teams.
- Managing and maintaining critical risk data via the risk system ‘MetricStream’.
- You’ll be responsible for creating and managing action plans of areas where improvements are required and keeping relevant stakeholders up to date on progress.
- Support with reviews from Audit, Compliance, Chief Controls Office and our regulators and analysing feedback at a process and functional level, articulating findings to stakeholders and managing subsequent actions.
- Being data led and using risk information to decipher problems or provide key insight.
- Working ‘outside the box’ and across Retail with an array of stakeholders to deliver business critical risk activities.

**About you**:
We are looking for someone who is highly organised, enthusiastic, who has great stakeholder and time management skills.

As a minimum you’ll have:

- Experience within financial services working in a first line regulatory, control or risk environment.
- A logical, inquisitive mind with an interest in regulations, policies and processes with an eye to suggest improvements using your knowledge or experience.
- Strong relationship management and influencing skills, to help build trust and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders across the business and externally.
- A proactive, collaborative and solution-oriented approach.
- Being able to think ahead and take planned action as appropriate.
- Ideally you would hold or be working towards an IRM or equivalent risk qualification.
- Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management and working use of MetricStream would be an advantage.
- **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.

**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. Yo