Nationwide
Controls Assessor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Quality Checking team as a Controls Assessor. This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll play a vital part in ensuring the Society delivers the right outcomes for our customers while protecting the business through robust quality checking and control processes.
Working within a supportive and collaborative team, you'll undertake quality checks and assess the work completed by our operational and offshore partners, ensuring policies, procedures and controls are followed effectively. You'll provide constructive feedback, identify opportunities for improvement, and help drive high standards across our support operations.
The Quality Checking team sits within Retail Support and provides first-line quality assurance across our operational teams.
Our teams support some of our most vulnerable customers and help protect the Society by minimising business losses. We work with customers through a variety of circumstances.
This role offers excellent variety, combining quality assurance activities with data analysis, training support, process improvement and stakeholder engagement.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
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 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 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 [https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnationwide-jobs.co.uk%2Flife-at-nationwide%2Frewarding-you&data=05%7C02%7CSamantha.Graham%40nationwide-jobs.co.uk%7Cc3d3225d77e54ab5a92008dedc2cceff%7C18ed93f5e4704996b0ef9554af985d50%7C0%7C0%7C639190282163461695%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlVSTDoiMTIuMC4wLjAsIiwiaSI6ImFhNjQwMjYxLWU1N2UtNDQ0Yy05Y2FhLTk5ZjE4MzE0MzM1IixidXI6bnVsbCwiaHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMud2lraW5naWxvdXAuY29tL3dlc3QvIiwiaHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMud2lraW5naWxvdXAuY29tL3dlc3QiXX0%3D&sdata=55t77XuG78%2B5yxJ6%2B%2Bp1aWn2mJb9%2B4XbZs%2B2jY44Y%2F0%3D&reserved=0].
Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process. If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.
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What you’ll be doing
As a Controls Assessor, you will complete quality checks across a range of Support processes, including reviewing customer interactions and carrying out "check the checker" activities.
You will assess adherence to policies, procedures and regulatory requirements to ensure good customer outcomes, while accurately recording quality results and providing clear, actionable feedback. The role also involves identifying trends, risks and opportunities for process improvement, loading and managing work samples for review, and completing management information (MI) reporting, data analysis and data reconciliation to maintain accurate records.
You will support training and coaching activities for offshore partners and build strong relationships with both operational and offshore colleagues. In addition, you will contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance customer experience and operational effectiveness. Effective workload management will be essential to ensure service level agreements are met and quality targets are consistently achieved.
About you
The minimum requirements are:
- Experience operationally within Support (Collections & recoveries/POA/SST or Bereavement) or in a quality checking or Quality Assurance environment
- Confidently able to make sound, evidence-based decisions and communicate them (both verbally and in writing)
- Proven skills in Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and Word
- Ability to manage competing priorities and plan effectively
- The ability to work independently while contributing positively to team objectives
- A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
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
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- 25 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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If 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.
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