Audit Manager - Data Science

Nationwide Building Society; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mutual organization as an Auditor, where you’ll leverage your data science and auditing skills to enhance internal controls and drive continuous improvements. Work in a collaborative environment with flexible hours and a strong focus on employee well-being, including a range of benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

Personal Pension Plan

Paid Volunteering Days

Life Assurance

Salary Sacrifice Scheme Benefits

Health and Wellness Options

Performance-related Bonus

Training and Career Development

25 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Proven experience in auditing within financial services.
• Extensive experience of Python in a commercial context.
• Understanding of analytical tools and relational query languages.

Responsibilities

• Conduct audit testing to assess internal controls.
• Utilize data insights to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Collaborate to develop innovative audit methodologies.

Skills

Data Analysis

Communication

Problem Solving

Curiosity

Education

Relevant Certifications

Tools

Python

SQL

SAS

Job description

We are looking for a talented Auditor with a strong background in data insights to join our dynamic internal audit team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in an award-winning team, in the largest UK building society with the unique benefit of being a Mutual. As a member of our team, you will leverage your auditing expertise and data science skills to provide assurance working on different audits throughout the year. Your knowledge and expertise will help drive continuous improvements across the team, upskilling colleagues with data analytics capabilities and developing innovative tools and practices to achieve our strategic goals.

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 spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our London, Swindon, Bournemouth or Northampton 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

• Conduct audit testing as part of an audit team, to assess the effectiveness of internal controls with a dedicated data insights lens
• Utilize data insights to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative data led audit methodologies and solutions to continuously innovate the department’s capability with data science.
• Stay abreast of industry developments and best practices to enhance data led audit processes.
• Contribute to the achievement of the Internal Audit strategy by supporting colleagues with your technical knowledge and developing their data analytics skills.

About you

• Proven experience in auditing, preferably within the financial services sector.
• You will be an experienced auditor or have significant previous audit experience
• Have extensive experience of Python and the ability to utilise it in a commercial sense.
• Have understanding and experience of other analytical tools and relational query languages such as SAS, SQL, etc.
• The ability to think laterally to solve problems.
• Curiosity and a keen interest in innovation and continuous improvement.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relevant certifications are a plus.

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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