Finance Industrial Placement Review

Item: Finance Industrial Placement at Nationwide
Rating: 5
Author: Anonymous

at Nationwide

Placement (10 Months+)

Finance

London

Review Submitted: August 2026

Overall Rating

5 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Operational Reporting Team (9 months):
• Completion of trade activity reports (MIFIR, PTT, EMIR, SFTR)
• Adhoc static data tasks (bond/ABS set ups and amendments, counterparty set ups and amendments)
• Adhoc credit monitoring and control tasks (keying dealer mandates, adding or changing credit limits)
Derivatives Team (3 months):
• Executing interest rate swaps for various amounts across tenors to hedge interest rate risk from retail products
• Xccy swap execution
• Collecting various management information in spreadsheets and slides based on hedging
• Writing various market commentaries to provide to different stakeholders across the wider business
• Various ongoing process improvement/automation tasks

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, increasing responsibility dependent on confidence and capability, ending the year with ownership of tasks and projects.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Developed soft skills across the board including communication, teamwork, problem solving, etc.
Learnt lots of technical Treasury-software related skills such as use of Murex, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, etc. Equally further developed Excel skills.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

5/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

5/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

Ample support from my line managers and wider team, as well as Finance Early Careers and General Early Careers Teams throughout. Assigned a mentor who was on hand to help throughout the whole scheme.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

5/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Super friendly and supportive atmosphere across colleagues of all seniorities.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

Thoroughly enjoyed the placement. I think the scheme is structured in a way that truly helps you to develop. They tailor it to what you want to get out of it and are super flexible to make changes if you ask for them.

Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

5/5

Please rate how your experience met your expectations

5/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Nationwide to a friend?

Yes

What advice would you give to others applying to Nationwide

The company focuses on soft skills and fitting in with the culture when interviewing and assessing applicants. The technical aspects can be taught on the job but you must be willing to learn.