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., 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.

• 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 GitHub and the application of GitHub 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 finishes with our customers in mind

Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think - we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

Access to an annual performance-related bonus

Training and development to help you progress your career

A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

Wellhub - access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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., As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

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