Senior Assistant Accountant

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Swindon seeks a Senior Assistant Accountant to join the Financial Reporting Change team. The role focuses on accurate financial reporting and strategic change projects, offering hybrid work arrangements. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and be progressing towards a professional accounting qualification. Competitive benefits including private medical insurance and performance bonuses are provided.

Benefits

25 days holiday, pro rata

Fully funded private medical insurance

Personal pension contributions

Annual performance-related bonus

Access to career development training

Salary sacrifice scheme benefits

Life assurance worth 8x your salary

Health and wellness access

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience delivering accurate financial reporting.
• Practical experience in delivering results.
• Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic change projects for financial reporting.
• Ensure all change is delivered in a controlled manner.
• Contribute to integration activities with Virgin Money.

Skills

Sound judgment under pressure

Attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Analytical mindset

Self-motivated and organized

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Progressing through ACA, ACCA, CIMA

Job description

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Assistant Accountant to join our Financial Reporting Change team. The Financial Reporting Change team has been recently established to provide subject matter expertise that will drive transformational change to Nationwide's financial reporting and controls.

We have an exciting time ahead and are seeking to grow the team with high calibre individuals. We're looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to work in a dynamic, fast-paced team to drive impactful change, including any changes required from the integration of the Nationwide and Virgin Money businesses.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work across a breadth of projects, collaborating with stakeholders from across the organisation to drive improvements and enhance our financial processes and controls, ensuring robust reporting and controls.

The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28 and 35.

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 Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Assistant Accountant, you'll support strategic change projects in delivering accurate and robust financial reporting, with a strong focus on financial accounting mapping, considering the impacts to our reconciliations and controls. You'll help to ensure all change is delivered in a controlled, benefit-focused manner.

You will be studying for an accounting qualification, alongside your day-to-day role.

You will operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders and priorities.

This will also include supporting integration activities between the Virgin Money and Nationwide businesses.

About you

We expect you to have:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Finance or Accounting) or progressing through a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Ability to make sound judgments whilst working under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail and a dedication to accuracy in financial reporting.
• Practical experience in seeing work through to deliver tangible results.
• Strong collaborative working with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at building relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• Self-motivated, organised and proactive in finding opportunities to drive change.
• An analytical mindset.

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

The extras you'll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• From January 2026, all colleagues will have access to fully funded private medical insurance
• A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• Wellhub - access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.