Audit & Accounts Practice Accountant

Job Description
Accountant - Mortgages and Financial Wellbeing (Buy-to-Let) Team
As a key member of the Nationwide finance team, reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll be responsible for the financial management of the Nationwide’s £40bn+ Buy-to-let mortgage book.
You’ll be responsible for monthly management accounts, analysing and assessing mortgage reprices, and providing in-depth analysis of actual and forecast book performance. You’ll also work closely with key stakeholders across the business to ensure that financial performance is well understood and embedded in the decision-making process.
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, at our office in Bournemouth.
You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
You’ll be working closely with the BTL Product and Pricing team, analysing mortgage performance for Committee reporting, and providing support and challenge in respect of BTL mortgage reprices and any new product developments.
You’ll also be responsible for weekly and monthly management reporting to key stakeholders across the business, providing in-depth analysis to ensure that they understand how their business is performing against both internal forecasts and the wider market.
No two days are the same, and you’ll also be responsible for responding to ad-hoc queries and requests from both the wider finance team and from across the business.
You’ll be a recently qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA), either looking for a move out of practice or looking for a new challenge in a new industry.
Experience of Financial Services will be useful, but not essential.
You’ll have strong communication skills, allowing you to present data and make recommendations to product, and other teams, across the business.
Proven analytical and excel abilities, which you’ll utilise for reporting and subsequent, detailed analysis.
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.
A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
~ Life assurance worth 8x your salary
~ A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
~ Access to an annual performance related bonus
~ Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
~25 days holiday, pro rata
Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. 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.
We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank.