Systems Data & Change Manager - Automation

The Finance Automation Team sits within the Automation, Testing & AI Enablement area of Future Capabilities & Operations. Our mission is to empower Finance with trusted insights and intelligent automation that improve decision-making, strengthen control, and drive efficient, sustainable performance.

We design and deliver impactful digital solutions that improve efficiency, insight and control across Finance. Our approach combines business analysis, solution design, development and wider enablement to make sure we solve the right problems, select the right technologies and deliver sustainable business outcomes.

As a Systems Data & Change Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping how automation and AI capabilities are used across Finance. You'll help set the direction for how we work, develop standards and frameworks, manage and prioritise opportunities, evaluate emerging technology, and build the skills and engagement needed to make effective use of these capabilities.

You'll also work closely with other areas of Finance, providing governance, standards and proportionate guardrails that enable colleagues to develop and use solutions safely and effectively, while supporting greater consistency, reuse and good practice across the function.

Working across Finance and with Technology, Risk and Operations, you'll combine technology knowledge, stakeholder engagement and leadership to help us scale our capabilities, improve how we deliver change and maximise the value we create for Finance.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28 and 35 hours.

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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend our Swindon site approximately once per month. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part-time, in the office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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.

Qualifications

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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The hiring manager for this role is Michael Colognori, and the main recruitment contact is Kris Mason.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Systems Data & Change Manager.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

This role plays a key part in identifying and assessing emerging technologies and new capabilities, turning their potential into practical opportunities and meaningful use cases that support Finance objectives. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Risk and Operations, you will build effective relationships, influence decision-making and help create alignment around priorities, standards and investment decisions.

You will also develop and enhance approaches to value management, helping to identify, measure and track the benefits delivered through automation and AI initiatives. Using these insights, you will support future investment and prioritisation decisions. Alongside this, you will champion continuous improvement and innovation by using delivery insights, stakeholder feedback and developments in technology to evolve our capabilities, standards and ways of working over time.

About you

As a minimum, you’ll have:

• Experience working within Finance and/or Treasury, with an understanding of the processes, controls, reporting and business challenges associated with these areas
• Knowledge and practical experience of Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies, such as Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse and Copilot Studio, with an understanding of how different technologies can be combined to deliver effective business outcomes
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including coordinating delivery, coaching and developing colleagues, and building capability through training, knowledge sharing and communities of practice
• Practical understanding of Agile and Lean methodologies, with experience applying these principles to translate business problems into scalable solutions, simplify processes, challenge requirements, test ideas iteratively and design solutions that maximise business value
• Experience leading and developing automation capabilities and operating models, including establishing effective governance, risk and control frameworks, standards, guardrails and ways of working that enable solutions to be delivered consistently, safely and sustainably
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience building effective relationships, influencing senior stakeholders, constructively challenging requirements and bringing business and technical teams together around shared outcomes
• Practical understanding of AI and emerging technology, with experience or evidence of evaluating new capabilities, identifying relevant use cases and supporting their responsible adoption
• Experience of demand, portfolio and prioritisation management, assessing competing opportunities and aligning resources and delivery activity to strategic priorities and business value

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

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.