Finance Business Partner- Quantitative Risk Management; QRM Development

Job Description

This is a strategically important and technically focused role within the Financial Planning & Stress Testing Team, central to the development of Quantitative Risk Management (QRM)-driven forecasting across the enlarged Nationwide Group following the Virgin Money acquisition. As a Finance Business Partner, you'll take a leading role in the development of QRM to deliver net interest income and balance sheet forecasting across a range of products, supporting both financial planning and risk management.

You'll play a leading role in enhancing Nationwide's modelling of Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB), working closely with senior stakeholders including the Director of Financial Planning & Stress Testing and Treasury leadership. The role offers significant scope to influence and partner across Finance functions within both the NBS and Virgin Money brands, contributing to a high-profile transformation initiative.

Joining a fast-paced and collaborative team of qualified accountants and system specialists, you'll be stepping into a moment of genuine transformation as Nationwide and Virgin Money integrate systems, models and data. The environment rewards technical depth and focus, offering the chance to contribute directly to how QRM-driven forecasting evolves for the combined organisation. This role is ideally suited to someone with existing expertise in QRM, advanced Excel skills, and data analysis experience, ready to make an immediate impact.

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

This is a 12-month secondment 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&aposll spend 40% of your working time,
based at either our Swindon, London or Bournemouth 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

• You'll be responsible for designing and building enhanced forecasting and IRRBB capabilities within QRM, ensuring they are robust as part of source system integration with Virgin Money systems. This includes expanding and improving modelling for mortgages, savings and treasury products, and developing forecasting capability for products such as credit cards and current accounts.
• A key responsibility is to support integration work streams such as data feed upgrades, model rebuilds and testing cycles, underpinning integration deliverables across mortgages, savings, treasury and other product areas. You'll lead and shape QRM development as part of a high-profile transformation programme—contributing to forecasting enhancements, data readiness, systems uplift, and migration-related modelling changes.
• This is a hands-on role where you'll engage deeply with Finance and Treasury colleagues, run targeted workshops, validate and refine data requirements, and document modelling approaches to ensure long-term usability and audit readiness. As reliance on QRM grows across planning, ALM and regulatory reporting, you'll also help strengthen QRM controls and assurance frameworks.

About you

• You thrive in technically complex environments and bring deep experience of building and enhancing QRM-based forecasting or IRRBB modelling.
• You're confident developing models within QRM — whether that involves assumptions, behavioural modelling, scenario capability, or system configuration — and you can translate that technical understanding into meaningful insight for senior stakeholders.
• You bring a strong background in financial-services forecasting the balance sheet or ALM modelling, and you're used…