Description Join our Business Banking Finance team, where you’ll play a central role within Management Reporting, supporting how the business understands and delivers its financial performance. As a Management Accountant Manager, you’ll lead the production of profit and loss, balance sheet and performance reporting, ensuring insight is accurate, joined up and aligned across Finance. This role is key in shaping decision making, providing trusted guidance to senior stakeholders and strengthening how we manage financial products and outcomes. By delivering clear, reliable reporting and building strong partnerships, you’ll help ensure our Business Banking services remain sustainable, well-governed and focused on delivering long-term value for our members. 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 be located at our Glasgow hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events, this is anticipated to be weekly in Glasgow. 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. 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. Responsibilities What you’ll be doing In this role, your day centres on leading the production of accurate, compliant management accounts, ensuring they are delivered on time and meet business needs. You will oversee the monthly reporting cycle, balancing tight deadlines with careful review to avoid material errors and apply all accounting policy updates promptly. Alongside this, you will support year-end and interim reporting, working closely with colleagues to keep everything on track. You will also respond to ad hoc requests as we navigate integration, adapting priorities to support changing business needs. You may also lead and develop a small team of up to four people, providing guidance and oversight to deliver high-quality outputs. In addition, you will guide the team in producing a full set of management accounts while owning key areas, such as loan accounting, profit and loss, and balance sheet reconciliations. A key part of the role involves maintaining clear processes and controls while improving how financial information is governed and reported. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, sharing insights and helping them understand performance, risks, and future priorities. You will also provide specialist input on areas such as transfer pricing and cost allocation, turning complex calculations into clear, useful information. Overall, this role blends technical expertise, team leadership, and clear communication to support confident, well-informed decisions. About you For this role, we are looking for: A fully qualified accountant (ICAS or equivalent) with proven experience in a management accounting role within a financial services environment Demonstrable experience accounting for financial products, including loan portfolios and effective interest rate (EIR) calculations Hands-on experience preparing statutory accounts and applying IFRS standards, including IFRS 9 and IFRS 15 Advanced use of analytics and business performance metrics to inform decision making and influence outcomes Experience designing and improving management reports, including clear, audience-appropriate content and layout Proven ability to communicate complex accounting concepts in simple terms to senior stakeholders, including executive-level audiences Advanced spreadsheet and financial modelling capability, supporting reporting, forecasting, and analysis Clear understanding of financial controls, audit trail requirements, and core processes, including transfer pricing (FTP) concepts and allocations 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. Qualifications The extras you’ll get There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including: 25 days holiday, pro rata Access to 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 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 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. We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application. The hiring manager for this role is Tracy Beattie, and the main recruitment contact is Kris Mason.