Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Risk

Description This; Glasgow; Híbrido; GBP 18 000 - 24 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Nationwide is offering a 12-month Data & Analytics Industrial Placement in Risk. You will work on hands‑on analytics, AI and risk management with mentoring from experienced professionals, gaining practical skills across data, processes and decision support.

This hybrid programme requires studying STEM at undergraduate level and offers stakeholder exposure, workshops and a pathway into future Nationwide development programmes.

Qualificações

• Studying toward undergraduate STEM degree.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Curiosity about data, analytics and risk.
• Ability to learn quickly and work with others.

Responsabilidades

• Analyse data to identify trends and risks.
• Support risk assessments and improve controls.
• Collaborate with teams across the business.
• Transform data into actionable insights.

Conhecimentos

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Curiosity

Team collaboration

Formação académica

Undergraduate STEM degree

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Swindon, United Kingdom

Good things this way

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Data & Analytics Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands‑on experience while exploring a future career in banking.

Help turn data into insight, strengthen risk management and influence decisions that improve outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Whether you're interested in analytics, AI, risk management or business improvement, this placement offers an opportunity to develop practical skills while contributing to meaningful business outcomes.

The experience is designed to help you build confidence, apply your learning and gain valuable insight into how data and analytics support decision‑making. Along the way, you'll broaden your network, work with experienced professionals and discover where your interests might take you after university.

Looking for a rewarding career in banking? Good things this way.

Where you’ll be working

You’ll join our Risk function, helping identify opportunities, generate insight and support decisions that strengthen how Nationwide manages risk and delivers good outcomes.

Working alongside experienced colleagues, you’ll gain exposure to data analytics, business processes, controls, AI and risk management while developing an understanding of how insight helps improve business performance.

Location

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, based at our Swindon or Glasgow offices.

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.

Uncompromisingly Customer, whatever our role

The extras you’ll get

• Structured learning, personalised development and hands‑on experience to help you build future‑ready skills and progress your career in banking


• 25 days holiday each year, which increases over time to 30. Plus, you can ‘buy’ up to 10 extra days


• The opportunity to earn an annual bonus based on your performance


• Private medical insurance to help you access additional healthcare when you need it


• Wellhub access to a range of free and paid fitness and wellbeing options, plus free on‑site gyms at selected locations


• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme


• Up to 14 paid hours each year to volunteer for a cause that matters to you


• Life assurance to provide additional peace of mind for you and the people who matter to you

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

As a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the applicable Immigration Rules and guidance (which are subject to change). The Skilled Worker route has specific requirements relating to skill level of the role and minimum salary expectations. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited or may not be possible for some programmes.

VISA Sponsorship cannot be offered on this programme.

All successful applicants with need to demonstrate their right to work in the UK on commencement of employment and for the duration of the programme applied for without requiring sponsorship.

What you'll be doing on the Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Risk

Our Data & Analytics Industrial Placement is a 12-month programme designed to combine practical experience, professional development and real workplace learning. This isn't a placement spent watching from the sidelines. From day one, you'll contribute to meaningful work while receiving the support needed to learn and grow.

Your placement begins with induction, development support and structured learning designed to help you settle in, build confidence and understand the role you'll be performing. Alongside this, you'll join a 10-month collaborative project with other Industrial Placement students from across Nationwide. Throughout the placement, you'll gain hands‑on experience while following a personalised learning pathway tailored to your role. Workshops, simulations and on‑the‑job learning will help you continue developing your skills and confidence.

The placement offers an opportunity to experience how data, analytics and AI support decision‑making across a major financial services organisation. Rather than specialising immediately in one area, you'll gain broad experience and develop a better understanding of where your interests and strengths lie.

No two days are the same. Activities could include analysing data, identifying trends, supporting risk assessments, reviewing controls, improving business processes and helping colleagues make evidence‑based decisions.

Working across teams, you'll help transform information into insight, supporting improvements that create meaningful value for customers, colleagues and the wider organisation.

Exposure to analytics, AI and risk management will help build both technical and professional capability. Along the way, you'll develop transferable skills in communication, stakeholder engagement, problem solving, analytical thinking and business improvement.

There will also be opportunities to explore emerging technologies and AI‑enabled approaches while contributing to projects that improve how Nationwide manages risk and makes decisions.

Successful completion of the placement may help shape future career choices and could provide a route into one of our Skills Development Programmes after university.

Who we're looking for on the Data & Analytics Industrial Placement - Risk

We're looking for curious, motivated people who enjoy solving problems, learning new skills and working with others. You'll share our determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions you make. Whatever your route, this placement will help you gain valuable experience while exploring where a future career in data, analytics and risk could take you.

To succeed on our Data & Analytics Industrial Placement, you'll need to show:

An interest in data, analytics, AI and evidence‑based decision making.

Confidence solving problems and using information to identify opportunities.

Curiosity about how organisations use insight to improve performance and manage risk.

The ambition to keep growing, take on new challenges and build towards your next career step.

A logical, methodical approach, with the ability to understand both the detail and the bigger picture.

The confidence to build relationships and work with colleagues across the business.

Drive, high performance and a commitment to learning from feedback and setbacks.

A determination to push for better and put customers first in the decisions you make.

Eligibility: You must be studying towards an undergraduate degree in a Stem Subject.

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 5808


• Apply Before 11/06/2026, 11:55 PM


• Locations 92/96 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8BQ, GB Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW, GB