Lead Business Intelligence Specialist (9-Month Fixed-term Contract)

Job title:

Lead Business Intelligence Specialist (9-Month Fixed-term Contract)

Company

Nationwide

Job description

(9-Month Fixed-term Contract)Data & Functions Technology Delivery exists to provide a broad range of data products to colleagues across the Society. We require a Lead Business Intelligence Specialist to help develop and deliver reconciliation and assurance across critical processes, as part of that team.You will join a community of analytical practitioners whose collective role is to enhance value through data and helping colleagues across the Society to unlock value by utilising your expert capability and skills. From a task perspective, you will be working in one of our Insight and Analytics teams, focussing on delivering shared outcomes that you have helped to prioritise, bringing your insight development skills as part of a multi-skilled teamAt 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 Swindon or London 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 .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 doingFrom a task perspective, you will be working on data from across the Society, focussing on delivering insights and user stories, bringing your analysis outputs to life with sound recommendations for action as part of a multi-skilled team.You’ll be able to identify opportunities to deliver ‘more’, where you may be working alongside others or on individual assignments and take ownership for ensuring things are done correctly.This could mean you apply your skills to supporting proposition development, unlocking insights to support Channel developments, or supporting resolution of Member operational incidents with auditable well controlled data.As a Lead BI Specialist, you will be expected to provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues and invest time in growing collective capability in the Society through your core area of expertise.About youWe’re looking for candidates that have experience within a reconciliation, data management or data insight environment.As a minimum requirement you’ll have:

• Demonstratable programming experience using SAS, Teradata and/or SQL to achieve the desired outcome.
• Ability to provide highly effective subject matter expertise to both internal and external stakeholders, translating technical detail into clear and concise messaging.
• Be proactive, self sufficient and innovative with the ability to task work in collaboration with a small number of analysts to deliver shared outcomes.
• Have excellent communication skills and be good at building relationships across all levels.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight – This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better – This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done – This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.The extras you’ll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us differentNationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.What to do nextIf this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.#LI-Post

Expected salary

Location

London – Swindon

Job date

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:27:22 GMT

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