Senior Business Analyst - Finance

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Finance & Treasury RCC Value Stream within DFTD.

Nationwide's Finance function plays a critical role in maintaining the Society's financial strength, supporting strategic decision-making and meeting our financial and regulatory responsibilities. Our teams work across areas including financial reporting, reconciliation and accounting, budgeting and forecasting, performance analysis, risk and compliance, and Treasury.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering complex change across Finance. You will collaborate with and influence senior stakeholders, technology teams and business SMEs to understand business needs, challenge existing processes and translate complex problems into clear, deliverable business outcomes.

The Finance change portfolio is varied and evolving, with opportunities to work across significant transformation initiatives. Current and upcoming areas of change include:

Finance reconciliation transformation, migrating reconciliations from legacy technology onto strategic platforms and simplifying the associated processes and controls.

Wider Finance transformation and modernisation, helping to simplify processes, reduce reliance on legacy technology and create sustainable, strategically aligned solutions.

New and evolving Finance, Treasury, regulatory and reporting requirements, requiring robust analysis, clear requirements and effective management of cross-functional impacts and dependencies.

Finance change arising from Payments Transformation and Unisys decommissioning, addressing accounting and

reconciliation impacts as legacy technology is replaced by strategic solutions. This includes initiatives such as Payment Central, BOSS Decoupling, BACS Batch Ledger and Faster Payments, together with their associated dependencies

You will be expected to operate confidently in complex and sometimes ambiguous environments, bringing structure and clarity to problems, challenging constructively, identifying impacts and dependencies, and using strong Business Analysis practices to help stakeholders make informed decisions and deliver sustainable change.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

This is a 24 month secondment opportunity.

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, based 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.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

What you’ll be doing

You will take a leading role in scoping and shaping Business Analysis activities across both inflight change and upcoming demand, establishing the appropriate analysis approach and translating business needs into clear outcomes and deliverables.

Working in partnership with colleagues across Finance, Technology and other change disciplines, you will ensure change is understood end-to-end, business and operational impacts are identified, dependencies are managed and proposed solutions meet the underlying business need.

You will use a broad range of Business Analysis techniques to explore complex problems, define business outcomes and requirements, analyse processes and operating models, assess options and provide insight and recommendations that support effective decision-making.

A key part of the role will be providing task and line management to Business Analysts, setting clear expectations, supporting prioritisation and development, and assuring the quality of analysis outputs. You will coach others in the effective application of Business Analysis practices and help drive consistent, high-quality standards across the team.

You will build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and colleagues across multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, confidently communicating progress, risks, dependencies and challenges while constructively influencing decisions and outcomes.

About you

As a minimum requirement, you’ll have

Business Analysis experience, including planning, prioritising, sequencing and sizing analysis activities, and tailoring approaches and techniques to the scale and complexity of change

Analytical and problem-solving skills, covering business outcomes and requirements, process modelling, operational design and target operating models, and supporting end-to-end delivery

Proven task and line management experience, including managing, coaching and developing permanent and partner Business Analysts and assuring the quality of their work

Stakeholder management and influencing skills, working collaboratively across business, technology and change teams to understand end-to-end impacts and dependencies, constructively challenge and communicate complex information to senior stakeholders

An understanding of Nationwide's compliance, governance and change requirements.

The ability to work effectively across geographically dispersed teams, including colleagues and external partners

Experience within Finance, Treasury, Payments or financial-services transformation, particularly in complex or regulated environments, and knowledge of financial accounting processes and principles

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

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

25 days holiday, pro rata

Private medical insurance

A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

Access to an annual performance-related bonus

Training and development to help you progress your career

A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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

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Disability Confident

We’re not just guided by data, we’re driven by the real experiences of our people. We’re a Disability Confident Level 3 Leader, the highest level.

That’s why we’re constantly evolving our policies and practices to make sure everyone feels genuinely supported, valued, and empowered to champion inclusion. Whatever your needs, we’re here to support you. If you need any additional support throughout your application journey, email our team at Recruitment Support.

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The hiring manager for this role is Craig Moreton, and the main recruitment contact is Anoop Gosai.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Business Analyst.