2025 Advanced Analytics Development Programme

As part of the Advanced Analytics development programme, you'll develop skills in different work situations, contributing to the development and improvement of processes, products and services in your department.
Over the course of 2-years, you'll rotate around one of four business functions (Credit Risk, Risk Decision Science & Analytical Innovation, Data & Analytics, or Personalisation & Performance Marketing) with the option of studying toward role-related qualifications.
You will build your skills and knowledge throughout your time on programme, gaining experience that will prepare you for a Risk Analyst Lead or Senior Analyst role or similar and help propel your career within Nationwide.
We'll need you to build rewarding relationships across the organisation and externally to understand customer needs, resolve problems and support the delivery of the Society blueprint.
You'll also attend development workshops and complete any set qualifications and training aligned to achieve your best.
The Advanced Analytics development programme spans three of our business functions: Risk, Chief Operating Office, and Customer, Brand and Engagement.
When joining the Advanced Analytics development programme, you'll specifically operate in either: • Credit Risk, enabling the Society to: lend safely, allowing customers to borrow money to purchase their home and help them manage their finances whilst keeping Nationwide safe and secure.
They decide how Nationwide sets its lending criteria and who Nationwide lends to - for mortgages, loans and other credit products.
• Risk Data Science, developing cutting-edge industry award winning Machine Learning models that support optimising credit lending decisions, protect our customers from fraud and combat criminal activity.
Our models help ensure we make the right decisions for both the customer and Nationwide.
• Data & Analytics, providing data insights and analytics to support strategic programmes, customer channels and customer journeys, and drives enterprise adoption of the Data Governance policy and controls and enterprise data dictionary and data quality tooling.
• Personalisation & Performance Marketing, developing predictive machine learning derived models using advanced analytics and data science techniques to help us understand what our customers need both now and in the future to develop a much more personalised and meaningful approach to our engagement with our customers spanning multiple channels and contact opportunities across the year.
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 Swindon office.
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 On the Advanced Analytics programme, you'll develop towards the role of either a Risk Analyst Lead or Senior Analyst over a 2-year period gaining the knowledge, skills and network our Risk, Chief Operating Office, and Customer, Brand & Engagement functions require.
The programme journey will focus on developing well-rounded analytical expertise including data science, advanced coding, and visualisation skills (Power BI) underpinned by building a strong understanding of the business function and the application of technical capabilities.
• Credit Risk participants will have exposure to providing deep insight into credit products and provide recommendations for policy amendments • Risk Data Science participants will have exposure the AI model builds across credit, fraud and money laundering.
• Data & Analytics participants will have exposure to analytics, AI, data engineering, and data platform across multiple teams/projects.
• Personalisation & Performance Marketing participants will be exposed to predictive modelling, campaign marketing analytics.
Optimization of model performance and development of marketing campaigns.
To support your journey to become a Risk Analyst Lead or Senior Analyst you'll have the opportunity to gain role-related qualifications.
You'll gain access to a bespoke 18-month learning journey to develop core business skills that complement role-specific development and you'll meet and work alongside a range of diverse like-minded individuals from across the organisation.
About you Dare more.
Develop more.
Deliver more.
• Bold in living our Customer First behaviours, you are innovative and have a growth mindset.
• Development is something you expect and embrace.
• You push for high performance - from yourself and those around you.
• You have a high standard of numerical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• You'll have the ability to analyse and problem solve to identify challenges and propose solutions.
• Through research and experience, you'll have commercial awareness of Nationwide Building Society and the Financial Services industry.
Whether you're a recent graduate, contemplating a career change, or are already working in Analytics but seeking your next challenge, our Advanced Analytics development programme paves the way for a rewarding career in our Credit Risk, Risk Decision Science & Analytical Innovation, Data & Analytics, or Personalisation & Performance Marketing teams.
Entry requirements: • Knowledge and understanding of advanced statistical/mathematical techniques • Proficiency in programming languages, SAS and Python preferred • Experience in manipulating and deriving insight from data, • Passion for applying analytics to unlock business problems • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, to understand and interpret business data in a variety of areas; • Effective communication skills to collaborate with team members across the business 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.
The extras you'll get As well as a permanent contract and a competitive starting salary (£32,500pa), as a valued member of the team we offer you: • 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 What makes us different At Nationwide, we're making banking fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society.
Unlike the banks we are owned by our members, not shareholders.
That's anyone who banks, saves or has a mortgage with us.
Which means we can always focus on what's best for them.
It's our fundamental difference.
You'll feel that difference when you join our Early Careers programmes.
When you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about customers, you're one of us.
An advocate for positive change.
What to do next If this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button.
You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and 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'll then be invited to attend one of our assessment centres which run from February 2025.
More details on the Advanced Analytics Development Programme can be found here.
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