Consultant Risk and Controls Partnering - Technology

at  Nationwide

A fantastic opportunity has become available at Nationwide for a passionate and ambitious individual to bring specialist risk & control expertise to enable our Technology Leaders, our Chief Information Officers (CIOs), to operate and execute effective controls and make informed risk-based decisions relating to good customer outcomes.
You’ll be passionate about developing data led approaches to delivering risk and control insight that drives proactive action and prioritisation.
You’ll have a track record of delivery, with high standards of performance and be able to build trust and strong working relationships.
You’ll be comfortable to work through ambiguity and proactively build your network to allow you to engage collaboratively across other Risk Management teams and subject matter experts to produce high quality and informative products.
This role is within the CIO & Change Risk Management Team and will support the delivery of risk and control services across our CIOs that are closely interlocked with providing simply brilliant services to our customers. The team is responsible for the provision of subject matter expertise, objective advice and actionable insight to support CIOs understand, evaluate and improve the risk and control environment as it relates to the management of their portfolio of technology and change.
Nationwide has ambitious plans to transform and simplify its estate, unlocking its full potential for its members. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, energetic and experienced individual with a background in either Technology, Information Security, Data and Change to be part of a critical team.
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 either our Swindon, Nationwide House or London, Threadneedle Street office. If based from our London office, there is an expectation to travel to Swindon roughly once a month. 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.
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.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll need to operate autonomously, working collaboratively across risk partnering, and be able to adapt to a challenging and changing environment through a growth mindset. As a minimum requirement you’ll have:

• Working experience and understanding in one or more areas of risk management as it relates to Technology, Information Security and Transformation.
• Demonstrable experience in risk management, controls assessment and risk reporting in complex environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication as you’ll be presenting information to a mixture of audiences and senior stakeholders. Relationship management and influencing skills is therefore key.
• Ability to work independently and to demonstrate initiative.
• Analytical skills, able to interpret and report on complex data and to identify trends and present alternative solutions and recommendations.
• Ability to network and collaborate across teams and functions.
• Possess or willing to work towards an industry recognised professional qualification relevant to the role.

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.

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Activities vary from supporting risk and control assessments to inform strategic change decision making, through to analysing incidents and loss events to identify root causes and opportunities for control improvements.
You’ll be pivotal in supporting CIOs to ensure that they operate technology and deliver change in a way that keeps Nationwide and its Customers safe.
You’ll deliver work through building positive relationships across key stakeholders including Platform Managers, Engineers, Architects, IT Service Managers, Product Owners and Programme Managers who operate technology and deliver change.
We’ll need you to understand our Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Policy landscape. However, more importantly you’ll bring experience and understanding of key risk management concepts and / or technical experience working with technology and delivering change insight and advice to bring fresh valuable external perspectives.
In fact, one of your key areas of focus in the first six months will be to support the assessment and evaluation of a strategic platform’s risk and controls posture. You will support in the delivery risk management service catalogue against the needs of the CIO you will help support and execute at pace against priority deliverables.