Project Manager

This role sits within Finance as part of the Virgin Money Finance Integration Programme, a major transformation supporting the integration of Virgin Money into Nationwide. Working across Finance, Product, and delivery teams, the programme ensures systems, data, and processes are integrated safely and under strong governance.

You will lead end‑to‑end Finance process change, ensuring readiness for new and migrated product capabilities. This includes embedding robust accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and treasury processes, managing dependencies, and maintaining effective control of risks and decisions.

The role plays a key part in protecting financial integrity, meeting regulatory requirements and enabling a smooth, well‑governed transition that supports long‑term value and confidence for Nationwide’s members.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

This is a 24-month Fixed Term Contract 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 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 Swindon, London or Glasgow 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. 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

A typical day in this role is fast‑moving and highly purposeful. You sit at the heart of the Virgin Money Finance integration, helping ensure systems, data, and processes are brought safely into Nationwide within a complex, multi‑workstream programme.

Your focus is leading end‑to‑end finance change and making sure Finance is genuinely ready for new and migrated products, from accounting and reporting through to treasury. You work closely with programme, product, and finance teams to manage dependencies, risks, and key decisions, keeping delivery on track and well controlled.

You’ll spend time turning complex change into clear, measurable actions, using tools like Jira to track progress, highlight risks, and maintain transparency. Expectations are high, but you’re trusted to lead and make a visible impact, playing a critical role in delivering a smooth finance integration and setting the business up for long‑term success.

About you

For this role, we are looking for:

• Leadership and delivery excellence: Demonstrated leadership and delivery discipline in a complex environment, championing continuous improvement, embedding best practice frameworks and ensuring outcomes align to strategic objectives
• Project delivery: Proven experience in managing large-scale projects in financial Services within a Finance/Treasury department or function
• Risk, Issue and Dependency management: Capability in identifying, tracking and resolving risks, issues and interdependencies across complex programmes
• Stakeholder engagement: Build effective working relationships across multiple teams, Value Streams and 3rd party suppliers. Excellent communication and influencing skills across business and technical teams including senior management
• Governance and compliance: Understanding of regulatory frameworks and risk controls relevant to Financial Reporting, Tax, and Treasury
• Jira proficiency: Hands on experience using Jira for project tracking and reporting
• Adaptability: Operate effectively in a continuously changing and complex environments with competing priorities
• Background: Experience of working in a Finance/Treasury function, Financial Services organisation and/or exposure to large programmes/integration activities

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.