Job Description
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Treasury Operations Officer within the Balance Sheet Risk Reporting and Forecasting team. This is a varied role working to support Nationwide’s Treasury function. You will be predominantly focusing on Static Data and Credit Monitoring to ensure Treasury can trade effectively, whilst also ensuring regulation and internal controls are adhered to.
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In addition, being part of the wider team means that you will also have the opportunity to gain an understanding of transaction and regulatory reporting and how we support this within the team.
The role gives exposure to multiple disciplines, which not only offers a position that is varied, it also provides a great opportunity to enhance career development. You will learn the Treasury function and how we support Nationwide, alongside working with numerous stakeholders. There will be the opportunity to make a difference to the way we work, make enhancements to processes, whilst also ensuring that Treasury data is correct and controls are implemented.
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, at one of our offices. 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.
This role will include working from our Swindon or Northampton Office, two days per week.
This role will keep you on your toes. It is fast paced with requests coming in from multiple areas within Treasury and elsewhere in Nationwide. You will work to prioritise tasks to ensure that the business is supported.
Tasks vary greatly, ranging from setting up bonds, counterparties, and settlement instructions to enable our Front Office teams to trade, to managing credit limits, dealer mandates to ensure we protect Nationwide. Monthly reporting is also required so a basic level of excel experience would be necessary.
You will be expected to find efficiencies in our day-to-day work to help streamline and simplify processes and to work closely with our technical team to enhance our current system.
You will need to be flexible in this role in order to adapt to ever-changing deadlines, and unforeseen spikes in trades and queries. It is essential that you have a positive, resilient attitude, and the attention to detail to ensure data is recorded correctly and controls are in place.
Opportunities for exposure and development within this high-profile area are significant.
- The ability to manage your own workload in a time critical environment, due to high volumes of credit limit, securities and settlement instruction requests.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills which will be used to work with colleagues in treasury, finance and external parties including rating agencies and FS institutions.
- Experience of working to strict controls procedures with a clear segregation of duties between teams to constrain Operational Risk.
- Excel knowledge with some experience of working with macros and formulas
- The ability to adapt to change and reprioritise at short notice
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
- Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
- Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
- Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- 25 days holiday, pro rata