Risk & Governance Industrial Placement - Risk

Virgin Money UK PLC; Swindon, Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide is offering a Risk & Governance Industrial Placement for ambitious and curious students. You will gain hands-on experience while exploring a future banking career, learning governance, decision support, and analytics.

Work with experienced professionals across risk teams, develop problem solving and stakeholder management skills, and participate in emerging technologies including AI, with a clear path to meaningful project contributions.

Responsibilities

• Support governance and risk activities within the Risk function.
• Assist with regulatory compliance tasks and risk controls.
• Contribute to risk analysis and reporting to stakeholders.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Business improvement

AI awareness

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Good things this way

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Risk & Governance Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience while exploring a future career in banking. 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 effective governance and decision-making support a large organisation. Along the way, you'll broaden your network, work with experienced professionals and discover where your interests might take you after university.

Where you'll be working

You'll join one of our specialist risk and governance teams within the Risk function, helping ensure Nationwide operates safely, responsibly and effectively for its customers and members.

Whether you're supporting regulatory compliance, helping protect the organisation from economic crime, or providing oversight of operational risks, you'll gain hands-on experience of how large organisations manage risk, strengthen governance and make informed decisions.

Working alongside experienced professionals, you'll contribute to meaningful work while developing valuable skills in analysis, problem solving, stakeholder management, business improvement and emerging technologies, including AI.

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.