Risk & Governance Industrial Placement - Risk

Nationwide Building Society · Swindon, United Kingdom

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Full-timeMid-levelOct 2026 · checked today

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If you're ambitious, curious and enjoy solving problems, our Risk & Governance Industrial Placement provides an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience while exploring a future career in banking. This placement offers an opportunity to develop practical skills while contributing to meaningful business outcomes.

The experience is designed to help you build confidence, apply your learning and gain valuable insight into how effective governance and decision-making support a large organisation. Along the way, you'll broaden your network, work with experienced professionals and discover where your interests might take you after university.

Looking for a rewarding career in banking? Good things this way.

Where you’ll be working

You'll join one of our specialist risk and governance teams within the Risk function, helping ensure Nationwide operates safely, responsibly and effectively for its customers and members.

Whether you're supporting regulatory compliance, helping protect the organisation from economic crime, or providing oversight of operational risks, you'll gain hands-on experience of how large organisations manage risk, strengthen governance and make informed decisions.

Working alongside experienced professionals, you'll contribute to meaningful work while developing valuable skills in analysis, problem solving, stakeholder management, business improvement and emerging technologies, including AI.

Location

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, based at our Swindon or Glasgow offices.

*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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