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If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems with data, our Data and Analytics Development Programme provides a structured route into a rewarding career in banking.
You'll develop specialist skills in data analysis, dashboard development and automation, helping our Chief Operating Office understand performance and make informed strategic decisions.
Whether you’re a graduate ready to make an impact, or a career changer looking for a new challenge, you’ll gain hands-on experience, develop future-ready skills, and contribute to projects that deliver banking that’s fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
You’ll follow a tailored learning pathway designed to build the skills you’ll need for the future of financial services. Through digital learning, interactive workshops, insights from leaders and industry experts, and hands-on experience in your role, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to put your learning into practice. You’ll also learn alongside colleagues from across Nationwide, helping you build your network and understand more about how our business works.
We’ll support your development through structured learning, personalised development and hands-on experience, helping you grow with confidence.
As part of the Data and Analytics Development Programme, you’ll have the opportunity to build your career in our Business Intelligence Team. Here’s what you can expect in an early careers data and analytics role.
Data and Analytics
In the Business Intelligence Team, you’ll help turn data into insight that supports performance and strategic decision-making across our Chief Operating Office. With a focus on dashboard development and automation, you’ll learn how to make information clearer, more accessible and easier to use. In this role, you will:
Help develop dashboards using tools such as Power BI and Excel to present performance information clearly.
Support automation and improvements to reporting processes, with opportunities to work with Power Apps and other tools.
Help create clear, concise reports for senior leaders, highlighting key trends and insights to support strategic decision-making.
Build relationships with colleagues across the function, understand their information needs and communicate insights clearly
Where you’ll be working
You'll join the Business Intelligence Team in our Chief Operating Office (COO), which turns data into insight to support performance and strategic decision-making across the function. The team brings together data to create dashboards and reporting that help colleagues understand performance and make informed decisions. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you’ll develop practical skills in dashboard development and automation, using Excel, Power BI, Power Apps, Jira and other tools.
Location
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 based at our Glasgow office.
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 on the Data and Analytics Development Programme
The Data and Analytics Development Programme is a two-year programme, with the next intake commencing in September 2027.
During the programme, you’ll join the Business Intelligence Team in the Chief Operating Office, helping turn data into insights and dashboards that support performance and strategic decision-making across the function.
You’ll start with an induction programme before joining a structured learning pathway. You’ll learn more about Nationwide, connect with colleagues and build the foundations for your role through data and analytics learning, digital learning, interactive workshops and insight from leaders and industry experts.
Your learning will build your understanding of data analysis, visualisation and automation before you put this into practice within your team. You’ll gain hands-on experience supporting real business needs, with guidance from experienced colleagues.
Throughout the two years, you’ll develop practical experience in analysing data, building dashboards and automating reporting. You’ll work with data from a range of different sources, learning how to turn information into clear, useful insights.
You’ll work with Excel, Power BI, Power Apps, Jira and other tools to support analysis, dashboard development and automation, building your technical skills through practical experience.
No two days are the same. You could help develop a Power BI dashboard, explore patterns in Jira data, improve an Excel report or support the automation of a manual process. You’ll work with colleagues across the Chief Operating Office to understand the questions they need to answer and present information in ways that help them make decisions.
You’ll develop skills in data analysis, visualisation, automation, stakeholder management, communication, problem solving, planning and prioritisation. You’ll also work towards relevant industry-recognised foundational learning.
The programme will give you a strong foundation for a career in data and analytics, with opportunities to continue developing your expertise in business intelligence, dashboard development and automation.
Who we’re looking for on the Data and Analytics Development Programme
We’re looking for ambitious, curious people with high standards and an interest in how data can help organisations understand performance and make better decisions. You’ll share our commitment to putting customers first and improving how we do things. Whether you’re starting your career, returning to work or changing direction, you’ll gain the skills and experience to build a rewarding career in banking.
To succeed on our Data and Analytics Development Programme, you’ll need to show:
•An interest in data and analytics, with a willingness to learn tools such as Excel, Power BI, Power Apps and Jira.
•Confidence in solving problems and working through complexity.
•Curiosity about what data can tell us and how dashboards and automation can improve the way we work.
•The ambition to keep growing, take on new challenges and build towards your next career step.
•A logical, methodical approach, with the ability to understand both the detail and the bigger picture.
•The confidence to build relationships and work with colleagues across the business.
•Drive, high performance and a commitment to learning from feedback and setbacks.
•A determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions you make
Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:
Feel what customers feel- We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
Say it straight- We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
Push for better- We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
Get it done- We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes
The extras you’ll get
High performing and purpose-driven colleagues deserve a rewarding career and competitive benefits to match. We offer you:
•Structured learning, personalised development and hands-on experience to help you build future-ready skills and progress your career in banking
•25 days holiday each year, which increases over time to 30. Plus, you can ‘buy’ up to 10 extra days
•The opportunity to earn an annual bonus based on your performance
•Private medical insurance to help you access additional healthcare when you need it
•Wellhub access to a range of free and paid fitness and wellbeing options, plus free on-site gyms at selected locations
•A highly competitive pension to help you start building your financial future
•A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
•Up to 14 paid hours each year to volunteer for a cause that matters to you
•Life assurance to provide additional peace of mind for you and the people who matter to you
Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.
If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.
At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.
We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.
What to do next
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button, where you’ll be asked to answer a few quick questions for us.
We’ll send you our online assessments to complete and there will also be a short video interview to find out more about you. If you are successful, you could be selected to attend one of our assessment centres which run from November 2027.
Visa sponsorship information
As a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the applicable Immigration Rules and guidance (which are subject to change). The Skilled Worker route has specific requirements relating to skill level of the role and minimum salary expectations.As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited or may not be possible for some programmes.
VISA Sponsorship cannot be offered on this programme.
All successful applicants with need to demonstrate their right to work in the UK on commencement of employment and for the duration of the programme applied for without requiring sponsorship.
If you have any further questions, please contact us [email protected]
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