2025 Finance, Treasury, Data & Systems Industrial Placement

The Finance & Treasury function are offering four Industrial Placement opportunities across Financial Management, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Data & System.
Each Industrial Placement opportunity will help you develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to inform your career choices and contribute to the development and improvement of Nationwide's processes, products and services in your department.
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 a project with other Industrial Placements aligned to our Social Impact strategy.
Our Industrial Placements provide a direct pathway to a future role on our graduate development programmes post-University.
Here in the Finance function, we make sure we spend our customers money wisely, so they get the most benefit.
As a function, we are made up of diverse individuals, skills and capabilities that enable us to provide financial partnering services, produce statutory and regulatory reporting, raise wholesale funds & maintain liquidity.
We provide lending for social housing, create and deliver a financial plan, manage stress testing requirements, provide and maintain financial systems and technology and drive the development of our Society Strategy.
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 Financial Management, Financial Report or Data & Systems, you'll spend at least two days per week, based at our Swindon head office.
For Treasury you'll spend at least two days per week based in either Swindon or London.
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 job roles or the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doing Financial Management The Financial Management pathway consists of our business partnering teams and our Financial Planning and Stress Testing (FP&ST) team.
We have three business partnering teams in Finance and their role is to partner with different parts of the Society to provide financial information, insight, analysis, and challenge.
These teams work incredibly closely within their areas and various stakeholders, supporting them to achieve their goals and objectives but also bringing a good degree of commercial challenge.
The FP&ST team are responsible for producing the 5-year financial plan including the cost plan and developing the relevant stress scenarios to test the Society's resilience within diverse macroeconomic and market stresses.
The team also help to manage Society's in-year performance including the reporting of a balanced scorecard to the Board and meeting cost & efficiency targets.
On the Financial Management pathway, you could be working in areas including: • Financial Planning and Stress Testing • One of our Business Partnering teams - Retail Business Partnering, Mortgages and Financial Wellbeing Business Partnering, or Chief Operating Office Business Partnering Financial Reporting This team is responsible for Nationwide's financial reporting, including the Annual Report and Accounts, as well as a range of regulatory financial reporting.
They oversee Nationwide's accounting approach, ensuring it's in line with accounting standards and based on appropriate judgements and are also responsible for the more complex accounting areas, such as treasury activities and loan loss provisions.
The team also includes a reconciliation function and a separate team for tax calculations and reporting.
On the Financial Reporting pathway, you could be working in any of these teams: • Financial Reporting • Financial Controls and Operations • Operations and Strategic Development Treasury The Treasury team ensures Nationwide remains financially safe, secure, and sustainable.
The team operates key functions such as managing various balance sheet risks such as our liquidity and capital positions, raising wholesale funding from financial counterparties and hedging our balance sheet (e.g.
interest rate and foreign exchange risk), Within the Treasury pathway, you could be working in one of the following areas: • Balance Sheet Risk Reporting & Forecasting • Balance Sheet Risk Framework & Modelling • Recovery & Resolution • Sustainability & Investor Relations Finance Data & Systems This team is integral to ensuring Nationwide's financial and prudential reporting and analysis systems meet requirements for the building society to produce business critical and regulatory reports.
The team works closely with data and IT teams across the society to develop solutions and access new technologies to improve the society's performance.
On the Financial Data pathway, you will be working in our Data & Systems team.
Over the year you will be taught coding techniques, complete change requests to existing reporting, be involved in projects rebuilding or developing new reporting and forecasting, and involved in society wide system upgrade and change processes.
A knowledge and interest in a coding language (e.g.
VBA, SAS, Python) is beneficial for this area.
You'll gain access to a bespoke 12-month project aligned to our Social Impact strategy to develop core business skills, providing opportunities to learn new skills and apply them in a different context to your day job.
You'll build a community and work alongside a range of diverse like-minded Industrial Placements 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 data and to 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.
You have an inquisitive mind and an aptitude for problem solving.
Experience using Microsoft Excel.
You use strong organisational skills to plan and deliver work with attention to detail.
You are determined and have the drive to make a difference.
You utilise good time management and prioritisation skills for working in a fast-paced environment.
You want to get involved in activities across the Finance department, such as working with our recognition team or Network and Knowledge events.
A knowledge and interest in a coding language (e.g.
VBA, SAS, Python for the Finance Data & Systems role Entry requirements: The 12-month placement runs from Sept 2025 - Sept 2026 • You must be studying toward an undergraduate degree in any discipline.
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 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 Finance Industrial Placement can be found here.
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