We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Risk Manager to join a new high-profile Insider Risk function responsible for understanding, assessing and helping to reduce insider-driven risk across the organisation. This role sits at the intersection of Security, Privacy, Payments, Fraud, Technology, People, Legal and other critical control functions, providing a unique enterprise-wide view of organisational risk exposure.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the businesses insider risk landscape, bringing together data, intelligence, risk indicators and control information to identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you will help shape the strategic direction of insider risk management, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and effectively managed.
The role combines leadership with hands-on risk management. You will be accountable for transforming complex data into meaningful insights, influencing decision-making at senior levels, and driving improvements that strengthen organisational resilience, protect customers and colleagues, and support safe and sustainable business growth.
Success in this role requires a strong understanding of data-led risk management practices, the ability to operate across multiple risk disciplines, and the confidence to challenge, influence and collaborate with senior leaders across a complex stakeholder environment.
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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend our London, Swindon or Glasgow site approximately once per month. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part-time, in the office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.
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.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
As the Senior Insider Risk Manager, you will lead the ongoing assessment of insider risk across the organisation, working closely with key business functions to develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's overall risk exposure. You will be responsible for consolidating information from multiple risk domains to assess the aggregate Group risk position, ensuring that emerging threats, behavioural risks, control weaknesses, and organisational vulnerabilities are identified, analysed, and understood in a timely manner.
Using data, analytics, and intelligence-led approaches, you will transform fragmented information into meaningful insights that support risk-based decision-making across the business. You will work in partnership with senior leaders to influence risk ownership, strengthen governance frameworks, and ensure that appropriate controls and mitigations are embedded within critical business processes and control environments. In doing so, you will provide effective oversight and constructive challenge to risk management activities, helping to ensure risks are consistently identified, assessed, managed, and monitored.
A key part of the role will involve supporting the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of insider risk frameworks, operating models, policies, and governance arrangements. You will assess the impact of organisational, technological, regulatory, and business changes on insider risk exposure and control effectiveness, ensuring the organisation remains resilient in a changing risk landscape.
You will also be responsible for producing high-quality executive reporting and delivering insightful risk analysis that translates complex technical and operational risks into clear, business-focused outcomes. Where appropriate, you will lead investigations, thematic reviews, and root cause analyses, drive sustainable remediation actions and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Working collaboratively with both first- and second-line teams, you will play a significant role in strengthening risk culture, improving control maturity, and supporting the achievement of strategic risk management objectives across the organisation.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
· Significant experience in risk management within a regulated environment, ideally across two or more of the following security, fraud, privacy, operational risk or control functions
· Strong understanding of insider risk, control frameworks and data-led risk management practices, including risk analytics, behavioural indicators, control effectiveness and management information.
· Proven ability to connect data, intelligence and risk indicators across multiple business and control domains to identify trends, vulnerabilities and emerging risks
· Experience working across Security, Privacy, Payments, Fraud, Technology, HR, Legal or other control functions to manage complex, cross-enterprise risk issues
· Ability to produce clear executive reporting and translate complex risk matters into actionable insights for senior stakeholders
· Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and challenge skills, with confidence operating across senior leadership teams
· Strong governance, risk assessment and decision-making capability, with experience leading teams, matrix teams or cross-functional initiatives
· A proactive, curious and strategic mindset, with a focus on improving organisational resilience and delivering better risk outcomes
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
Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes
You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
30 days holiday, pro rata
Private medical insurance
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
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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.
What to do next
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