Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

Swindon, United Kingdom
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Northampton, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Join Nationwide’s financial crime team to enhance customer and payment screening systems. You’ll test sanction lists for accuracy and screening filters for effectiveness, using tools like Fircosoft or Actimize. The role involves analysing data, identifying gaps, and improving system performance while ensuring compliance. Strong analytical skills, governance awareness, and stakeholder engagement are key.

You’ll be part of a high performing and committed financial crime team, focusing on testing of our customer and payment screening, as well as testing of the lists we use to screen against. Using your screening experience, you’ll be working to deliver high quality analysis to help us optimise the performance of our financial crime systems. This will involve working with analytical tools and specialist financial crime systems to build, document and maintain key financial crime monitoring solutions.

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 either our Swindon, Bournemouth, London, Northampton or Glasgow 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.

Uncompromisingly Customer, whatever our role

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

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.

What you’ll be doing

Your will have two primary responsibilities within this role, which relate to different types of testing. The first testing is of our PEP (Political Exposed Persons, SIP (Special Interest Persons), RCA (Relatives and Close Associates) and Sanction lists which we source from Dow Jones - for timeliness, completeness and accuracy. The second testing is of our customer and payment screening filters against direct and…