Audit Manager – Data Insights

We are looking for a talented data insights specialist with a strong background in internal audit to join our dynamic internal audit team at a key point in our journey to becoming a data driven function. 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

As an Internal Audit Data Insights Manager, you will conduct audit testing as part of an audit team, assessing the effectiveness of internal controls through a dedicated data insights lens. Using the latest generative AI techniques to support coding and testing, you will leverage data insights to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement. 

Working closely with colleagues across the business, you will help develop innovative, data-led audit methodologies and solutions that continue to enhance the department’s data science capability. You will also support the delivery of the Internal Audit strategy by sharing your technical expertise, developing colleagues’ data analytics skills, and carrying out technical reviews of data insights work. 

You will drive innovation by creating repeatable analytics solutions that can be applied across audits and developing self-service functionality that enables audit teams to access and use data more effectively. Keeping up to date with industry developments and best practice, you will help continuously improve and strengthen data-led audit processes.

About you

In this role you will require:

• Proven significant experience as an auditor, preferably within the financial services sector
• Have extensive experience of Python and the ability to utilise it in a commercial sense and apply to audit scenarios
• Have an advanced understanding and experience of data bricks alongside other analytical tools and relational query languages such as SAS, SQL, etc.
• An advanced understanding of GitHub and the application of GitHub Copilot to coding
• A curious mind with a keen interest in innovation and continuous improvement. Previous experience of AI Innovation and application to data insights
• The ability to think laterally to solve problems
• 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:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

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

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Audit Manager.