Accountant - Stress Testing

2 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Nationwide Building Society Full time

Accountant - Stress Testing

Location: Swindon or London

Salary: Circa £46,000


As an Accountant you will be part of a high performing team of finance professionals. You will help ensure that insights gained from working with colleagues across Finance and the Society are communicated clearly to senior management to inform strategic decision making, as well as producing materials for key external and internal stakeholders.


This role sits within the Financial Planning & Stress Testing team which plays a vital role in ensuring Nationwide remains Built to Last, by running a year-round financial planning and stress testing programme that helps senior management really understand risks and vulnerabilities facing the Society. This includes production of clear and insightful materials for senior committees and key external stakeholders. In addition, the team are aso responsible for reporting monthly performance to the Executive and Board Committees.


This position is an excellent way to really get to know our business through our financial reporting and forecasting activities. If you thrive in a fast paced and intellectually stimulating environment then we would love to hear from you.


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 one of our offices in Swindon or London, with monthly travel to Swindon, if you're based in London.


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


This team is a focal point for delivery of our monthly performance management and financial planning programme which includes the production of clear and insightful reports, presentations and management information for use at Executive and Board level committees.

You will collaborate with a large number of stakeholders across the Society to support the delivery of Nationwide’s monthly performance reporting and forecasting agenda in order to drive key business insights and influence decision making. You will also ensure that all internal and external controls related requirements are followed, working proactively across the team to ensure documentation to support requirements are kept up to date.

You will be responsible for producing clear and insightful materials for Senior Management as well as ExCo and Board-level committees to a high standard ensuring controls and governance processes are followed.



About you


As a minimum requirement, you’ll:

  • Ideally be a qualified or part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
  • Preferably have experience with financial planning or stress testing exercises and knowledge of net interest income, capital or credit modelling principles would be helpful;
  • Partnering with various areas of the business to obtain information to deadlines, in order to provide a centralised view
  • collating the above information and presenting this to varying audiences, whilst ensuring accuracy.
  • Be able to work autonomously and reprioritise at short notice, across 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.

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.

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