Lead Manager Economic Crime Change Oversight - Integration at Nationwide

, , United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

10 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

12 Jun, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Economic Crime Risk Management, Change Oversight, Integration Management, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Assessment, Second Line of Defence, Stakeholder Management, Governance, Reporting, Control Gap Analysis, Remediation Tracking, Independent Challenge

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Nationwide is undergoing significant and ambitious change as we continue to evolve how we deliver value to our millions of members. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Economic Crime Risk & Compliance (ECR&C) team, a key part of the second line of defence, ensuring the Society delivers its strategy safely while balancing risk and reward. In this highly visible and collaborative role, you will shape and strengthen oversight of Economic Crime change activity, with a particular focus on Integration. You will support and, where required, lead the coordination of oversight across integration programmes, ensuring activity is appropriately reviewed, risk-assessed, and aligned with regulatory expectations, internal policies, and risk appetite. Using a risk-based, proportionate approach, you will help embed a consistent oversight model that delivers sustainable outcomes. You will independently review and challenge initiatives, providing clear, evidence-based second line advice. Producing robust written opinions across a range of complex topics to support governance and decision-making. You will coordinate oversight of Economic Crime risk assessments, identifying key risks, highlighting control gaps, and ensuring remediation actions are in place and tracked, escalating material concerns as needed. Working closely with Economic Crime SMEs, business stakeholders, and wider Risk teams, you will promote a joined-up approach to oversight that reduces duplication and strengthens outcomes. You will also deputise for the Head of / Economic Crime Integration Lead at governance forums and other senior meetings. You will coordinate and provide input to clear, high-quality reporting to senior stakeholders and committees. In addition, you will drive continuous improvement by enhancing oversight frameworks, methodologies, and tools, while building strong stakeholder relationships to influence outcomes and promote effective risk management. With strong attention to detail and a proactive mindset, you will challenge constructively and help deliver the right outcomes for the organisation and its customers. As a Lead Manager focused on Change / Integration Oversight within the Economic Crime Risk & Compliance team, you will operate within Nationwide’s second line of defence, helping to ensure the Society delivers for its members in a safe, secure, and compliant way. The function plays a critical role in protecting members from financial crime and fraud by setting standards, providing independent oversight, and offering expert advice and challenge across the business. The main purpose of the role is to coordinate and lead the delivery of effective oversight across economic crime integration, change and remediation, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and managed in line with regulatory expectations and risk appetite. Through independent challenge, robust governance, and close collaboration with senior stakeholders and Accountable Executives, you will help strengthen controls and drive consistent risk management practices. Your work will have a direct impact on members by helping to protect their finances, maintain trust, and ensure Nationwide continues to operate with integrity and resilience. This also supports Nationwide’s commitment to fair, secure, and trustworthy banking, maintaining confidence, safeguarding member assets, and enabling the Society to operate responsibly for the long-term benefit of its members and wider society. We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best. 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 be assigned to our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be quarterly in London or Swindon. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. 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.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate the oversight of economic crime change and integration activities within the second line of defence. Ensure risks are identified, assessed, and managed in alignment with regulatory expectations and internal risk appetite.