Senior Insider Risk Manager

Nationwide Building Society; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Building Society is seeking an experienced Senior Insider Risk Manager to lead insider risk assessment across the organisation, coordinating with Security, Privacy, Payments, Fraud, Technology, People, Legal and other control functions to form an enterprise-wide view.

You will transform data into insights, influence senior decision-making, and help shape risk management strategy while ensuring controls and mitigations are embedded in core processes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading insider risk initiatives across large organisations.
• Strong data-driven approach to risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead ongoing assessment of insider risk across the organisation.
• Consolidate information from multiple risk domains to assess aggregate group risk position.
• Transform fragmented information into meaningful insights to support risk-based decision-making.

Skills

Insider risk management

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Risk assessment

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join a new high-profile Insider Risk function responsible for understanding, assessing and helping to reduce insider-driven risk across the organisation. This role sits at the intersection of Security, Privacy, Payments, Fraud, Technology, People, Legal and other critical control functions, providing a unique enterprise-wide view of organisational risk exposure.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the businesses insider risk landscape, bringing together data, intelligence, risk indicators and control information to identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you will help shape the strategic direction of insider risk management, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and effectively managed.

The role combines leadership with hands‑on risk management. You will be accountable for transforming complex data into meaningful insights, influencing decision‑making at senior levels, and driving improvements that strengthen organisational resilience, protect customers and colleagues, and support safe and sustainable business growth.

Success in this role requires a strong understanding of data‑led risk management practices, the ability to operate across multiple risk disciplines, and the confidence to challenge, influence and collaborate with senior leaders across a complex stakeholder environment.

This is a 12‑month secondment opportunity.

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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend our London, Swindon or Glasgow site approximately once per month. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part‑time, in the office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

What you’ll be doing

As the Senior Insider Risk Manager, you will lead the ongoing assessment of insider risk across the organisation, working closely with key business functions to develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's overall risk exposure. You will be responsible for consolidating information from multiple risk domains to assess the aggregate Group risk position, ensuring that emerging threats, behavioural risks, control weaknesses, and organisational vulnerabilities are identified, analysed, and understood in a timely manner.

Using data, analytics, and intelligence‑led approaches, you will transform fragmented information into meaningful insights that support risk‑based decision‑making across the business. You will work in partnership with senior leaders to influence risk ownership, strengthen governance frameworks, and ensure that appropriate controls and mitigations are embedded within critical business processes and control environments. In doing so, you will provide effective oversight and constructive challenge to risk management activities, helping to ensure risks are consistently identified, assessed, managed, and monitored.

A key part of the role will involve supporting the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of insider risk frameworks, operating