Senior Consultant Risk Control and Partnering - Swindon, United Kingdom - Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society

Verified Company

Swindon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Contract Type:
Permanent

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Ref: R00AOR03555

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Closing Date:28 February 2024

We are looking for a pro-active, self-motivated, and dynamic Policy and Regulation Consultant to join the Retail Products Risk Team, within Retail Risk.

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.

This role requires you to travel into the office 2 days a week to our offices in either Swindon, Northampton or London.

What you'll be doing:

You'll be working alongside your colleagues in the Retail Product Risk Team across Retail Risk to ensure that key regulatory, product, policy or process changes are safely delivered.

You'll be completing gap analysis to identify any changes that need to be made to products or processes as we continue to innovate within our regulatory framework.

You'll develop solutions to support project delivery and process improvement, effectively managing stakeholders and presenting findings.

Main responsibilities will be:

You'll be responsible for creating an action plan 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.
Responding to challenges of additional and emerging risks and regulation, ensuring our policies, processes and Lifecycle Definition tools accurately reflect our regulatory position
Leading on work and mentoring colleagues, providing guidance and coaching to ensure adherence to risk and regulatory requirements

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
Experience working in a first line regulatory environment, with a good knowledge of the FCA handbook and the Regulations that impact Retail Products;
The ability to analyse information and produce concise and informative reports and presentations
Experience in providing accurate and expert regulatory and risk advice
Demonstrable ability to manage time effectively and display strong organisational skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
A logical, inquisitive mind with an interest in regulations, policies and processes.
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 solutionoriented approach.
Being able to think ahead and take planned action as appropriate.

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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.

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Push for better

This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.

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Get it done

This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the endtoend 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

Gympass

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