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Financial Reconciler
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Financial Reconciler
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, dedicated team who deal with the day-to-day reconciliations of the Society’s financial transactions.
Your responsibilities will include managing the balancing and exception handling for a suite of accounts, as well as challenging the efficiency and effectiveness of processes.
This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract 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 while 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 our Swindon 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.
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
As a Financial Reconciler, you'll play an important role in maintaining the accuracy and integrity of our financial records. You'll manage a varied workload that includes daily reconciliations, investigating exceptions, and resolving queries, while developing the skills to support colleagues across the wider team when required.
You'll work closely with the Financial Reconciliations management team and key stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance efficiency, and support the delivery of our Reconciliations of the Future vision.
About You
As a minimum, you will:
- Have proven experience with financial reconciliations
- Have demonstrable experience of using Excel in a professional capacity
- Have a basic understanding of accounting
- Enjoy tackling challenges and solving complex problems with creativity and analytical thinking
- Be confident in your decisions, take ownership, have good attention to detail
- Be quick to learn new processes and adaptable to changing priorities
- GCSE Mathematics at Grade B/6 or higher, or a comparable qualification demonstrating an equivalent level of numeracy
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- Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathize with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
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The extras you'll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- 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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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
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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