Nationwide
Risk Internship - London
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On our redesigned 10-week immersive Summer Internship you’ll gain real experience, grow your confidence, and develop the skills and behaviours needed to thrive in a future Early Careers programme such as a 2027 Industrial Placement or Skill Development Programme.
Over 10 weeks you’ll work within our Risk function, contributing to impactful work and learning from expert colleagues. You’ll also take part in workshops, networking events, and activities designed to accelerate your development.
This internship is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, understand Nationwide’s culture and build the foundation for a career that’s fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
Where you’ll be working
You’ll spend the full 10‑week programme on‑site, five days per week at our London office. This supports immersive learning, strong team integration, and your development into a confident future early‑career professional.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing Our Risk function works across all key areas of risk that affect Nationwide and our ability to meet customer needs. We help deliver Nationwide’s strategy in a safe and sustainable way, providing expertise and constructive challenge to colleagues so we can support both current and future customers with confidence.
You’ll be working in either:
Credit Risk
You’ll join the Unsecured Credit Risk team, where you’ll help shape credit strategies for credit cards, personal loans and current accounts. You’ll use data and analytics to understand how we make lending decisions and ensure they meet responsible lending rules and Consumer Duty standards. Throughout the internship, you’ll work with teams across Product, IT, Operations, Marketing and specialist Risk areas to make sure our strategies work. You’ll build confidence in reading portfolio data, spotting early warning signs and understanding how customer behaviour, product design or economic changes can impact credit performance, learning how smart decisions help manage risk and keep customers protected.
Model Risk
You’ll join the Model Risk team, helping develop tools and analytics that identify and monitor nonfinancial risks, including those that affect customers directly. You’ll work on projects focused on regulatory compliance and customer vulnerability, designing and prototyping analytical tools that help the business spot emerging risks early. Throughout the internship, you’ll collaborate with data specialists and experienced analysts to explore new datasets, build dashboards and earlywarning indicators, and turn complex information into meaningful insights that support better customer protection.
You’ll gain hands-on experience in analytics, tool development and data-driven problem-solving, working closely with teams across Model Risk, Compliance and Operational Risk. By the end, you’ll have practical experience building analytics that support nonfinancial risk management and a strong foundation for a future career in data, analytics or broader risk roles.
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Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
You’ll join the Compliance & Regulatory Affairs team, where you’ll help us understand new and changing regulations and make sure they’re applied safely across the whole customer journey. You’ll get involved in high-profile projects, new products and services, and key customer-impacting topics, offering support and challenge to ensure we meet regulatory expectations and deliver great outcomes for customers.
You’ll help track emerging regulation, support work on cross-cutting issues like vulnerable customers, contribute to oversight of major strategic projects including Consumer Duty, assist with interactions with regulators, and use data to help keep customer outcomes front and centre. By the end, you’ll have built strong regulatory knowledge, stakeholder skills and hands-on experience in a team that plays a crucial role in protecting customers and supporting Nationwide’s purpose.
Throughout the programme, you will:
- Work on meaningful tasks that contribute to your team’s goals
- Build baseline technical and professional skills relevant to the function you join
- Take part in structured development activities across the 10‑week programme
- Grow your understanding of Nationwide’s culture, expectations, and ways of working
- Demonstrate your aptitude, performance, and potential through real tasks and shadowing
- Build a professional network
Qualifications
About you
We’re looking for students who:
- Have a genuine interest in developing skills in Risk
- Are curious, ambitious, and proactive learners
- Are strong communicators with good attention to detail
- Enjoy solving problems and thinking creatively
- Thrive in a collaborative, high-performance environment
- Can organise and take accountability for their work
- Want to make a positive difference for our customers and communities
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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To be eligible for this internship
You must:
- Be a student with the right to work in the UK
- Be available to complete the internship from July through to September 2026.
- Be either:
- In your first year of university now and able to start an Industrial Placement in September 2027 as part of a sandwich course, OR
- Starting your final year in September 2026 and able to begin a Skill Development Programme in September 2027.
The extras you'll get
- Access to learning and professional development resources
- Opportunities to network with leaders, mentors, and fellow interns
- Paid volunteering time to support causes you care about
- Experience within a high performing Early Careers culture
Post-programme opportunities
At the end of your internship, if you’ve demonstrated strong potential, you’ll be fast-tracked to final-stage assessment centres for relevant 2027 Industrial Placement or Skill Development opportunities.
Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
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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You’ll complete online tests and a short interview, and successful candidates will be invited to a final-stage assessment centre.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Early.Careers@nationwide.co.uk
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.
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