Risk Industrial Placement

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Risk Industrial Placement

What you’ll be doing

On the Risk Industrial Placement, you’ll develop over a 12-month period gaining the knowledge, skills and network our Economic Crime or Operational Risk Oversight teams with the Risk function require and provide you with experiences to inform your future career choices.

The Industrial Placement journey will focus on developing analytical skills, awareness of regulatory and financial services environments, evolving trends of Operational Risk and Resilience or Financial Crime.

You’ll gain access to a bespoke 12-month project aligned to our Social Impact strategy to develop core business skills, providing opportunities to learn new skills and apply them in a different context to your day job. You’ll build a community and work alongside a range of diverse like-minded Industrial Placements from across the organisation.

About you

Dare more. Develop more. Deliver more.

• Bold in living our Customer First behaviours, you are innovative and have a growth mindset.
• Development is something you expect and embrace.
• You push for high performance – from yourself and those around you.
• You have a high standard of numerical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• You’ll have the ability to analyse and problem solve to identify challenges and propose solutions.
• Through research and experience, you’ll have commercial awareness of Nationwide Building Society and the Financial Services industry.

You’ll thrive in this Industrial Placement if you have:

• An interest in risk management and risk identification particularly in Financial Services
• The drive to learn and improve and are looking for a challenge
• A positive, tenacious and solution focused mindset
• The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships and have the resilience to adapt to change

Entry requirements

• The 12-month placement runs from Sept 2025 – Sept 2026
• You must be studying toward an undergraduate degree in any discipline.

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.

The extras you’ll get

• A real job – you’ll be contributing to the organisation while you learn
• 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
• 25 days holiday

What makes us different

Unstoppably Nationwide

At Nationwide, we're making banking fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society. Unlike the banks we are owned by our members, not shareholders. That’s anyone who banks, saves or has a mortgage with us. Which means we can always focus on what’s best for them. It’s our fundamental difference.

You'll feel that difference when you join our Early Careers programmes. When you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about customers, you're one of us. An advocate for positive change.

About Nationwide

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

As champions of the mutual way, we challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We work on behalf of them. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

When you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about customers, you’re one of us. An advocate for positive change.

We're uniquely positioned to challenge the industry and make a meaningful difference in customers' lives, communities, and broader society.

To achieve this calls for courage. We're brave in speaking out and saying what we think. Honest and direct with good intent. We openly share our diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions. We say it straight.

We don’t settle for mediocrity. Challenging the status quo, we take responsibility for continuous improvement and our own personal development, demanding high performance in ourselves and of each other. We push for better.

We're decisive, prioritising what will have the greatest impact. Taking accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes. We get it done

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.