Audit Manager – Data Insights

We are looking for a talented data insights specialist with a strong background in internal audit to join our dynamic internal audit team at a key point in our journey to becoming a data driven function. This is an exciting opportunity to work in an award-winning team, in the largest UK building society with the unique benefit of being a Mutual.

As a member of our team, you will leverage your auditing expertise and data science skills to provide assurance working on different audits throughout the year. Your knowledge and expertise will help drive continuous improvements across the team, upskilling colleagues with data analytics capabilities and developing innovative tools and practices to achieve our strategic goals.

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

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 London, Swindon, Bournemouth or Northampton 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.

As an Internal Audit Data Insights Manager, you will conduct audit testing as part of an audit team, assessing the effectiveness of internal controls through a dedicated data insights lens. Using the latest generative AI techniques to support coding and testing, you will leverage data insights to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.

Working closely with colleagues across the business, you will help develop innovative, data-led audit methodologies and solutions that continue to enhance the department’s data science capability. You will also support the delivery of the Internal Audit strategy by sharing your technical expertise, developing colleagues’ data analytics skills, and carrying out technical reviews of data insights work.

You will drive innovation by creating repeatable analytics solutions that can be applied across audits and developing self-service functionality that enables audit teams to access and use data more effectively. Keeping up to date with industry developments and best practice, you will help continuously improve and strengthen data-led audit processes.

In this role you will require:

• Proven significant experience as an auditor, preferably within the financial services sector
• Have extensive experience of Python and the ability to utilise it in a commercial sense and apply to audit scenarios
• Have an advanced understanding and experience of data bricks alongside other analytical tools and relational query languages such as SAS, SQL, etc.
• An advanced understanding of Git Hub and the application of Git Hub Copilot to coding
• A curious mind with a keen interest in innovation and continuous improvement. Previous experience of AI Innovation and application to data insights
• The ability to think laterally to solve problems
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Relevant certifications are a plus

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…