Senior Analyst (12 Month FTC)

at  Nationwide

Banking is changing at Nationwide. With an increased focus on growing our business and meeting more of our customer’s unsecured borrowing needs, we are looking to add to our talented and experienced team that monitor the trading performance and set pricing strategies for our unsecured lending products.
We are looking for a senior analyst who is highly numerate with a track record of adding value through analysis and insight. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment in a role where you can make a real difference.
You will be responsible for setting and monitoring trading objectives for our unsecured lending products, monitoring what’s happening across the industry to understand how our propositions and pricing benchmark against other lenders. You will produce data driven insight to solve business problems and develop pricing proposals to meet trading objectives whilst considering customer outcomes.
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, at one of our offices. 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

As a minimum you’ll need to have or be:

• A strong background in producing insight with the drive to develop your knowledge and take on new challenges.
• You’ll think strategically with the ability to identify challenges and develop solutions through market and member insight.
• Experienced in using software such as Base SAS, Python or SQL to produce data driven insight.
• The ability to interpret and correlate a wide range of business performance measures and present information to a senior audience in a logical and understandable way.
• Excellent communication skills and be good at building relationships across all levels.
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills, enabling you to proactively manage your own work whilst maintaining high standards, attention to detail and ensuring timely delivery of multiple pieces of work.
• A logical mind set and be imaginative in problem solving with the ability to investigate business issues and draw conclusions.

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.

• You will be responsible for using internal and external data to monitor how we’re performing against our key trading objectives and produce high quality data driven insight.
• You will use your commercial, numerical and analytical skills to develop product and pricing proposals.
• Develop quality written proposals that facilitate formal decision making and broadens the understanding of key issues.
• Play an instrumental role in setting financial objectives and operational forecasts based on historical book performance and broader market influences.