Accountant - Mortgages

Nationwide Building Society; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a qualified accountant to join their finance team. This role involves managing a substantial mortgage portfolio, analyzing financial performance, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive informed decisions. The company values a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility while fostering teamwork. With a focus on customer-centric values, you'll contribute to meaningful financial services that prioritize member needs. This is an exciting opportunity to grow in a supportive environment that champions professional development and community impact.

Benefits

Personal Pension Plan

Paid Volunteering Days

Life Assurance

Salary Sacrifice Benefits

Health and Wellness Options

Performance Related Bonus

Training and Development

25 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Recently qualified accountant with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Proven experience in financial reporting and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for financial management of the £40bn+ mortgage book.
• Conduct monthly management accounts and provide in-depth analysis.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Excel Proficiency

Financial Reporting

Time Management

Education

CIMA

ACCA

ACA

Job description

As a key member of the Nationwide finance team, reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll be responsible for the financial management of Nationwide’s £40bn+ Buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage book.

You’ll be responsible for monthly management accounts, analysing and assessing mortgage reprices, and providing in-depth analysis of actual and forecast book performance. You’ll also work closely with key stakeholders across the business to ensure that financial performance is well understood and embedded in the decision-making process.

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 our Bournemouth office. 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.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be working closely with the BTL Product and Pricing team, analysing mortgage performance for Committee reporting, and providing support and challenge in respect of BTL mortgage reprices and any new product developments.

You’ll also be responsible for weekly and monthly management reporting to key stakeholders across the business, providing in-depth analysis to ensure that they understand how their business is performing against both internal forecasts and the wider market.

A strong control environment is vitally important in our team, so you’ll be responsible for critically reviewing our key processes and controls, suggesting and implementing changes as necessary.

No two days are the same, and you’ll also be responsible for responding to ad-hoc queries and requests from both the wider finance team and from across the business.

About you

• You’ll be a recently qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA), either looking for a move out of practice or looking for a new challenge in a new industry.
• Experience of Financial Services will be useful, but not essential.
• You’ll have strong communication skills, allowing you to present data and make recommendations to product, and other teams across the business supporting and possibly challenging decisions along the way.
• Proven analytical and excel abilities, which you’ll utilise for reporting and subsequent, detailed analysis.
• The ability to reprioritise and work to several deadlines, simultaneously.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

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, pro rata

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

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 respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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