Development Programme - Business Analyst

If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Change Development Programme provides a structured route into a rewarding career in banking.

You will develop specialist skills to help deliver large-scale business and technology change, gaining hands-on experience that creates real outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Whether you're a graduate ready to make an impact, or a career changer looking for a new challenge, you'll gain hands-on experience, develop future-ready skills, and contribute to projects that deliver banking that's fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

You will follow a tailored learning pathway designed to build the skills you will need for the future of financial services. Through digital learning, interactive workshops, insights from leaders and industry experts, and hands-on experience in your role, you'll have plenty of opportunities to put your learning into practice. You'll also learn alongside colleagues from across Nationwide, helping you build your network and understand more about how our business works.

We'll support your development through structured learning, personalised development and hands-on experience, helping you grow with confidence.

As part of the Change Development Programme, you'll have the opportunity to build your career in one of our key change roles. Here's what you can expect as a Business Analyst.

As a Business Analyst, you will play an essential role in identifying and delivering change that drives positive and demonstrable value to our customers and colleagues across Nationwide. You will work across business and technology teams, joining the dots between customer needs, business processes, data, systems and strategic priorities. You will bring a critical eye for detail, ask thoughtful questions and help stakeholders understand both the immediate requirement and its wider impact.

In this role you will:

• Assess business opportunities, using evidence and critical thinking to understand problems, identify root causes and help stakeholders prioritise the requirements that will deliver the greatest value.
• Define the scope and deliverables of initiatives, identifying connections, dependencies and potential wider impacts, and ensuring a common understanding across operations, business and technology teams
• Work collaboratively across the change lifecycle, particularly with technology, architecture and delivery teams to shape practical solutions Nationwide tools, guardrails, patterns, methods, and controls.
• Maintain clear traceability from the original business need through to delivery, checking that requirements are accurate, complete and aligned to the intended customer and business outcomes.
• Analyse complex information, challenge assumptions and consider how changes to one process, system or service may affect other parts of the organisation.

You will join our Change teams, helping deliver strategic programmes, technology initiatives and business improvements. Working with experienced change professionals, you will support projects, analyse business needs and turn ideas into reality. With £600 million invested in change each year, you will see how change is delivered at scale.

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 will spend at least two days per week, based at our Swindon & Glasgow offices.

The Change Development Programme is a two-year programme, with the next intake commencing in September 2027.

During the programme, you will join high-performing teams that support Nationwide's transformation and strategic priorities.

You will start with an induction programme before joining our dedicated Change Academy. Here, you will learn more about Nationwide, connect with colleagues and build the foundations for your role. You will also complete a personalised learning pathway combining role-specific training, digital learning and interactive workshops. You will hear from leaders and industry experts, who will share fresh perspectives and practical ideas.

The Change Academy will build your core change and delivery skills before you…