We are looking for a highly motivated, intellectually curious Paralegal to join our Treasury Legal Team. This role will primarily support Nationwide’s Treasury team helping Nationwide achieve its funding objectives. For us, it’s not just about having the right technical expertise, you need to be able to learn quickly on the job, work collaboratively and have excellent attention to detail.

While you will be part of the wider Group Legal function, you will sit within Treasury. You will be primarily working on Nationwide’s various wholesale funding programmes and will also support advice to the Treasurer and other senior leaders on a wide range of matters including regulatory capital, sustainability, ISDA and GMRA negotiations, investor relations, public disclosures and listing rules.

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, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at our London 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.

What you’ll be doing
As part of this role, you’ll:

Learn to project manage the various funding programmes, including transactions across a variety of products, jurisdictions, and currencies, which will include overseeing external lawyers, investment banks, auditors, trustees, regulators, stock exchanges, and internal stakeholders. Learn to advise on market practice, procedures, listing rules, and infrastructure of the international debt capital markets. Help drive the team’s document retention strategies and policies to reduce legal spend and increase the team’s value add to the business. Implement changes and efficiencies into our BAU activities as part of the team’s wider goals to proactively manage external legal spend and burdens on the business. Build foundational relationships, both internally and externally, with key stakeholders, especially across Nationwide’s trading desks, at key law firms and investment banks.

About you
As a minimum you’ll need to:

Be degree educated. Completion of the Legal or Bar Practice Course (or equivalent) and/or previous in house or private practice legal experience would be beneficial. Have a demonstrated interest in financial services, banking, capital and treasury markets, securities law, and/or the “plumbing” of the financial system. Have a basic understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks for financial services. Be able to manage a busy workload, deadlines and competing priorities. Be able to build strong relationships across the business, and especially with the Treasury teams, and become a trusted advisor, providing expert, pragmatic, timely, succinct and cost-effective legal advice. Be able to consider matters from different perspectives, thinking beyond a narrow legal analysis and about whether something is right and fair for Nationwide. Possess intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to ask lots of questions.

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.

The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16% Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year Life assurance worth 8x your salary A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness Access to an annual performance related bonus Access to training to help you develop and progress your career 25 days holiday, pro rata

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 with cover letter 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.