Total 10 job vacancies by NatWest Group

Join us as an MQ Project Analyst

• You’ll be designing and building MQ systems to support the many applications using these systems, working with our Middleware MQ project team in a large and complex support environment
• You’ll be supporting the platforms’ operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system’s utilities and tools provided by the platform
• This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with feature teams to continuously enhance your development
• This role will involve occasional on call and out of hours support

What you'll do

As an MQ Project Analyst, you’ll be supporting the team’s activities to make sure that the platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or centres of excellence. You’ll be contributing to and supporting the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.

In addition, you’ll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by contributing to test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.

Your role will involve:

• Contributing to the platform risk culture, making sure that risks are discussed and understood at every step, and effectively collaborating to mitigate risk
• Designing, building and maintaining our MQ systems to customer requirements as well as supporting our application teams with testing and resolving issues
• Integrating our MQ systems with other software and linking them to external customers and partners
• Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity
• Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant cross-domain stakeholders
• Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level. You’ll need a solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration. IIB running on RedHat Linux and Solaris is desirable

We’ll also look to you to demonstrate:

• Strong experience of MQ infrastructure design, configuration, and delivery of MQ infrastructure on Z/os and, Unix as well as experience of MQ clustering, shared queues, pub/sub and AMS
• Experience of working with third party vendors, SSL certificates
• Knowledge of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment
• An understanding of operational principles
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Join us as our Marketing Business Partner in Corporate & Institutional Banking

• Lead a team of marketing professionals by translating the Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) business strategy and commercial outcomes into plan, budget and execution
• Day-to-day, you’ll lead the marketing for our Corporate and Institutional (C&I) customer businesses, including Markets, supporting the strategy and commercial objectives alongside brand objectives
• Support the Marketing Director, C&I to drive the overall C&I marketing strategy, bringing together the three businesses, customer goals and journeys to deliver a customer-first marketing strategy
• This is an opportunity to make an important impact through your work and establish yourself as a key senior leader in both our Marketing function and across the customer business

What you'll do

As our Marketing Business Partner in Corporate & Institutional Banking, we’ll look to you to lead engagement with senior business leaders on converting business Objective Key Results into a customer centric strategy, with clear activation plans. You’ll design the marketing strategy, making decisions on resources and plans to prioritise delivery on the strategy, translating these into a three-year marketing strategy with an annual plan.

You’ll lead a team of marketing professionals by translating strategy into operational management activities, along with recommending and delivering a portfolio of products and services in line with the Marketing service proposition, through effective collaboration with the Marketing Centres of Excellence and all other relevant internal and external partners. You’ll sit on our leadership committees and interface with senior leaders within CIB.

Your top priorities will include:

• Providing insight to business stakeholders on marketing strategy, including annual business planning, marketing campaigns and proposition exploration and development
• Leading and developing a professional, capable and engaged team to meet the needs of the business and customers
• Driving greater visibility of Return on Investment for marketing spend across CIB marketing plans
• Delivering accurate and reliable profiling for the broad spectrum of customers within our Corporate, Institutional and Markets businesses, allowing for personalised marketing interventions to be deployed to the appropriate decision-maker within the business
• Delivering against commercial goals through direct and response marketing, developing a consistent approach across the bank
• Acting as a spokesperson for Corporate & Institutional Banking at external engagements such as trade events and through online networks
• Identifying key marketing priorities through the provision of expert diagnostics, analysis and decision support, making recommendations to the business and Centre of Expertise
• Drawing insights from Centre of Expertise to help inform the annual C&I marketing strategy and budget

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need strong influencing and stakeholder engagement levels at a senior level, with knowledge and application of marketing strategies and leadership including comprehensive end-to-end understanding of the commercial sales funnel and customer lifetime value. You'll demonstrate strategic and commercial acumen, with experience of creating a clear connection between commercial drivers and marketing strategies.

In addition, you’ll have marketing experience within a large matrix organisation and knowledge of the banking industry, regulatory and commercial environment, specifically corporate and institutional banking including financial and capital markets.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Marketing technical expertise including Global Corporates, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Real Money Funds, Global Insurers, Non-Bank Financial Institutions, Structured Finance, and Markets
• The ability to make data driven decisions and support a culture of continuous improvement
• Cross-border marketing experience in key geographical markets aligned to NatWest’s Commercial & Institutional franchise, including European Economic Area, United States, Singapore, and Japan
• Experience of leading diverse, professional teams
• Experience of operational and financial planning with budget management experience
• A high level of drive, energy and personal commitment to success
• Demonstrated experience in understanding and communicating complex commercial models of value to a broad audience of stakeholders and collaborators
• Knowledge of relevant legal policies, regulations and risk management

Join us as a Business Analyst

• Take on a critical high profile role in the Operations Centre of Excellence, defining and realising fantastic solutions, processes, benefits and new opportunities
• You’ll be delivering the five year strategic vision for Operations, transforming the operational capability across the bank and helping us to shape the future of our operations by delivering pan-bank innovative solutions
• It’s a great chance to hit the ground running and make a tangible impact on the bank’s operational capability as you work in a vibrant, forward looking team

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be managing the analysis of complex cross franchise and pan group requirements, while capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they are in line with key strategic principles and the Operations strategy.

In the course of your work, you’ll work closely with key stakeholders across the business to create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities. You’ll build, manage and maintain positive working relationship with stakeholders at different levels of hierarchy and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You’ll also:

• Create and maintain documentation, as well as support controls and quality assurance for key stakeholders and suppliers
• Identify upstream failure demand in processes and propose remediation to prevent flow of work into operations
• Trace and link business requirements to future state design and communicate business needs into technical requirements
• Create and execute test scenarios and test scripts at various stages of the project in order to validate the solution design
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and support business users in executing the user acceptance testing

The skills you'll need

You’ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification, such as BAX, CPRE and CBAP. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity and have the ability to pay keen attention to detail and drive progress at pace.

It’ll be ideal if you have experience of working with large scale automation or AI and strategies that are tangible and grounded, as will be a background in business design and experience of Agile processes and ceremonies.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques to include the use of a wide range of data such as Operational, Technology, Finance and HR to support problem solving and decision making
• Experience of delivering change within a banking operations team driving measurable business outcomes
• The drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations
• The ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders at senior level across the bank
• An analytical mindset, with strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

Join us as a Business Design & Solutions Lead

• This is a high profile role in the Operations Centre of Excellence that will see you supporting the ongoing definition of the bank wide Operations strategy alongside key business stakeholders
• We’ll look to you to define and mobilise key components of the Operations strategy in partnership with senior Operations leaders and key supporting functions such as Technology and D&A
• You'll have a real opportunity to add value and deliver lasting results in this role, while building meaningful relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders

What you'll do

As a Business Design & Solutions Lead, you’ll play a leading role in driving innovation across Operations and identifying and designing new opportunities that will allow us to execute and deliver on the five year strategic vision for Operations. You’ll make sure that all solutions align to the bank’s strategy and the franchise and functions’ five year plans.

You’ll create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities that support delivery of the Operations five year strategic plan and develop the associated business case, securing sign-off and approval of the same from all major stakeholders.

More specifically, you’ll:

• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities
• Make sure that all designs are compliant with all the appropriate governance and policies and in line with the bank’s risk management appetite
• Manage the programme design and associated working groups and project teams to provide strategic direction and leadership
• Understand the impact and associated risks that other programmes may have and manage any associated dependencies

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll need a background in business design and have experience of delivering strategic programmes that support a business strategy and its growth agenda. You’ll have a track record of designing and delivering end-to-end innovative designs and solutions within Operations. You’ll be a trusted partner to senior stakeholders and have the ability to influence them with your ideas and concepts and secure the buy-in of all key decision makers.

In addition, you’ll need to be resilient, creative and free thinking and be prepared to challenge status quo and the conventional ways of doing things. You’ll be comfortable in analysing data and operating in an environment with ambiguity and have sound decision making skills.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience developing compelling strategies that are tangible and grounded
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders in the design, shaping and mobilisation of innovative solutions in an operational construct
• Familiarity with multiple data sources and the ability to leverage those data sources to create insight and inform, both strategy and execution
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

Join us as a Project Manager

• Join the Operations Centre of Excellence in a high profile and influential role that will deliver the five year strategic vision for Operations and transform the operational capability across the bank
• You’ll play a key role in driving change across Operations, and we’ll look to you to deliver goals on time, within budget and to the highest quality
• Hone your existing project management skills with excellent exposure at senior level and advance your career in this exciting, fast paced role in an innovative and inclusive team

In your new role, you’ll lead a work initiative, preparing, managing and providing reporting on all project plans, controls and resource plans. You’ll make sure that activities are in place to adequately prepare the business and engage all the appropriate stakeholders effectively to enable change to be implemented and handed over.

Additionally, you’ll be building and maintaining a positive working relationship with senior stakeholders across multiple franchises, domains and functions and at different levels of hierarchy and as part of this you’ll be required to produce executive level presentations. As well as this, you may lead a team of external suppliers, working closely with supply chain services for the appropriate supplier selection from our framework.

You’ll also be:

• Empowering and leading a team, often in multiple geographies, through the project lifecycle
• Identifying, tracking, managing and mitigating any project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
• Leading and defining project documentation and making sure that the solution clearly supports and is aligned to our strategic goals
• Tracking and reporting project costs and making sure that the project is completed in allotted budgets
• Making sure that all project deliverables satisfy the requirements and that they adhere to the agreed governance framework
• Shaping business cases or benefits realisation and securing funding via investment processes
• Addressing policy and control shortfalls and audit findings and implementing strategic solutions in response

You’ll need to hold an appropriate project management qualification, as well as have experience in change management. You’ll need experience of delivering change within a banking Operations team driving measurable business outcomes. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity and have the ability to pay keen attention to detail and a drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations.

It'll be ideal if you have experience of Agile processes and ceremonies as will be a familiarity with Model Risk governance.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of driving large scale automation or AI with a drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations
• Experience of analysing a broad range of data such as Operational, Technology, Finance and HR to support problem solving and decision making
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to produce executive level presentations
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with the ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders at senior level across the bank
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

Join us as an Algorithmic and eTrading Project Manager

• We’re looking for someone with a commercial and strategic mindset to advise business leads to continually refine our operating model for electronic trading
• You’ll be running and improving our three electronic trading control life cycles; algorithm, automated control, and electronic platform
• It’s a chance to work with a variety of stakeholders, giving you a platform to raise your network and career profile across the business

What you'll do

This role will see you providing electronic trading risk expertise to enhance our global risk and control framework. We’ll look to you to review and assess our adherence to the relevant electronic trading policies, and assist with administering the electronic trading governance structure.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Making sure we comply to Significant Harm Function Algorithmic Trading under IAR (SHF9)
• Investigating and responding to electronic trading risk issues, internal reviews and regulatory inquiries
• Delivering regulatory remediation in the electronic trading space
• Identifying and mitigating non-market risks inherent in the electronic trading businesses
• Collaborating with business risk managers to deliver the risk and control agenda for the business

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need operational experience in an electronic trading business together with knowledge of financial services businesses, including investment banking. We’d also like you to hold a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics degree, or appropriate analytical qualifications.

It's crucial that you have experience of leading change projects within a capital markets or investment banking front office environment, and managing change projects with large technology requirements.

You’ll also need:

• Knowledge of algorithmic trading regulations and risk management across both trading and operational risk
• The ability to design and deliver project plans to meet deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
• A proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with trading, technology and risk functions
• Leadership experience and the ability to develop less experienced team members
• Knowledge of financial services risk and control at different levels of an organisation

Join us as a Business Analyst

• Take on a critical role defining and realising fantastic solutions, processes, benefits and new opportunities to deliver to our stakeholders
• You'll be working in a vibrant, forward looking team and helping us to shape a number of colleague and customer outcomes within the Manage my Growth Goal
• It’s a great chance to hit the ground running, take advantage of our development opportunities, and advance your career

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll work primarily in a business change and delivery environment where, while capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they are in line with key strategic principles. In the course of your work, we’ll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions, including technology when required.

You’ll also:

• Create and maintain documentation, as well as support controls and quality assurance for key stakeholders and suppliers
• Identify and support cut-over and implementation tasks
• Trace and link business requirements to future state design
• Identify and understand problems, opportunities, risks and dependencies documenting these appropriately
• Assist business change activities such as adoption, business training and readiness, updating customer and colleague collateral and communications for new initiatives

The skills you'll need

You’ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification, such as BAX, CPRE and CBAP. Additionally, you’ll have a highly analytical mindset, with strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of applying analysis tools and techniques to achieve the best outcomes for both our customers and colleagues
• A background of delivering analysis within a business environment where agile transformational change has been implemented
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills

Join us as a Technology Vendor Manager

• This is an opportunity to put your specialist technology and project management skills to the test
• You’ll be responsible for coordinating the relationship with our key outsourced technology partner
• It’s a fantastic chance to hone your existing programme management skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

You’ll be responsible for the vendor management of our key partner and making sure the delivery is in line with wider programme plans and controls.

You’ll also:

• Work with the Product Management and Delivery functions to ensure that Vodeno are delivering the required software in line with Agile milestones and against a budget set out in our contractual relationship
• Track issues and progress with a view to facilitating resolution involving others as needed
• Coordinate teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Commercial, Go-to-market within Vodeno and NatWest Boxed assisting with meeting coordination and issue escalation
• Recommend process improvement to make the relationship work better

The skills you'll need

You’ll need strong experience and understand of UK Fintech - ideally within an embedded finance or BaaS context

You’ll also need:

• Proven experience with managing key outsource partners
• Strong coordination, planning, project management and admin skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly at all levels of the organisation knowing who to involve at the right time and when to escalate issues
• Able to support Finance in tracking vendor budget forecast and actual spend
• Agile and current technology ways of working expertise and confidence to recommend process improvements to accelerate delivery and facilitate the removal or roadblocks
• Firm but fair approach with suppliers and internal teams - ensuring that teams collaborate to meet working obligations in line with the Supply Agreement - an ability to spot and correct bad behaviours in order to ensure a good working relationship
• Bright outlook and ability to keep team spirits high

Join us as a Project Manager

• This is an opportunity for a driven Project Manager to join the Basel 3.1 programme within Finance’s Chief Operating Office (COO)
• Within your first year in the role, you’ll lead the planned Basel 3.1 programme bank-wide dry runs, testing the bank’s Basel 3.1 adoption readiness ahead of regulatory compliance dates
• You’ll be joining an innovative and inclusive culture where you’ll have access to fantastic development opportunities, hone your existing project management skills and advance your career

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll support the delivery of the bank’s strategic response to Basel 3.1 standards.

You’ll drive the planning and execution of dry run exercises supporting Basel 3.1 adoption readiness testing across end to end impacts, including the preparation of entry criteria, execution runbooks, governance and reporting of progress to stakeholders.

You’ll also:

• Support testing aspects of dry runs for stakeholders bank-wide, including management of success criteria, execution tracking, defects management and reporting
• Work with other Finance COO project managers within the programme to ensure that dry runs are integrated with the other delivery workstreams
• Act as a conduit between bank-wide downstream customers and the Basel 3.1 programme
• Build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders across multiple franchises and functions across the bank, managing appropriate governance and other regular and ad hoc forums with stakeholders to ensure change is delivered in partnership with technology and business stakeholders
• Create and maintain project documentation, as well as support controls and quality assurance for key stakeholders and suppliers
• Develop your understanding of the Basel 3 and CRR3 regulations which will go live next year

The skills you'll need

We’ll expect you to be an experienced Project Manager and hold a project management qualification, as well as demonstrate relevant expertise in appropriate project management methodologies and tooling.

You’ll have experience of delivery in a high pressure environment within a large scale change programme, or within a programme delivering mandatory regulatory change within fixed deadlines.

You’ll also need:

• A track record in managing large and diverse stakeholder groups towards a common goal
• Experience of applications for systems and delivery
• Knowledge of flexible working environments and strategies

Join us as a Trading Wind Down, Recovery & Resolution Planning Integration Lead

• You will be responsible for leading the integration of our Trading Wind Down (TWD) capabilities into the NatWest Group Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) framework, ahead of the 2025 regulatory deadline
• To facilitate this integration, we'll look to you to play a central role in collaborating with the TWD Project Team, SMEs and an array of stakeholders at all levels of seniority across NatWest Group
• You will also help to ensure we have strong recoverability, with high quality recovery plans and bank-wide awareness of recoverability and its importance
• This is a role of high importance, in which you'll benefit from excellent exposure to senior management with the opportunity to raise your profile across the bank

What you'll do

As a Trading Wind Down, Recovery & Resolution Planning Integration Lead, you’ll be driving initiatives across the bank to embed TWD capabilities with RRP, in line with TWD regulatory requirements. We’ll look to you to deliver the solutions required from a RRP perspective to meet these regulatory expectations, leveraging and enhancing the existing BAU frameworks where appropriate.

You’ll be outlining how the TWD capabilities can be used to support the requirements for RRP and defining the key requirements for the TWD workstreams and SMEs to ensure timely delivery of TWD RRP Options.

As well as this, you'll be:

• Coordinating across the TWD workstreams to support the delivery of the information required for assessing credibility, viability and valuation of the TWD recovery options
• Providing input to the TWD operating model and playbook to ensure the coverage of TWD capabilities with the RRP framework to support ongoing testing
• Preparing materials for TWD and senior bank committees to provide updates and ensure effective governance of any key decisions
• Collaborating with Risk and Internal Audit
• Encouraging continuous development in RRP, drawing on input and best practice from related areas, such as stress testing and scenario analysis
• Coordinating efforts across our functions and franchises to support RRP testing

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with an accounting, CFA or MBA qualification and experience in treasury, risk, strategy or finance. With an analytical mindset, you’ll have the ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements, reflecting these in business design and translating them into clear implications for recovery plans.

You'll also have:

• Good influencing and negotiating skills
• An ability to understand derivative and corporate banking products and resulting cashflow, liquidity and capital impacts
• A proven ability to present to and engage with senior stakeholders, explaining complex concepts and documentation in clear and coherent proposals
• Experience of identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives
• The ability to prepare for, present and contribute to committees