Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

As a Financial Crime Analytics Consultant in our award‑nominated Financial Crime Analytics team, celebrated for its positive, collaborative culture, you’ll play a key role in strengthening Nationwide’s defences against the evolving threat of financial crime. You’ll work with large, complex datasets and apply advanced analytical skills, using tools such as SAS or SQL, to identify unusual or suspicious activity, support money laundering compliance and enhance the effectiveness of our core controls.

You’ll bring confidence in navigating complex financial crime specific data sources, structures and behaviours, with the ability to translate this complexity into clear, meaningful outcomes. Your expertise will help us make smarter, data led decisions and ensure our controls remain robust, efficient and responsive to emerging risks.

This role sits within Nationwide’s 1st line of defence (Economic Crime), where you’ll join the Transaction Monitoring function. You’ll contribute to the development, management and continuous optimisation of transaction monitoring controls across our Non‑Retail products, helping us use data intelligently and proactively to protect our members and maintain strong regulatory compliance.

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 nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be 40% of working week in Northampton, Swindon, Bournemouth, London or Sheffield
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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.

You’ll join the team within the Financial Crime Analytics Transaction Monitoring function, responsible for building, managing, and continuously enhancing the transaction‑monitoring controls that protect Nationwide’s Non‑Retail products. This includes rule development, threshold tuning, and ongoing performance evaluation.

You’ll work with analytics tools such as SAS, providing clear updates on rule performance and key changes to your manager and relevant Financial Crime forums.

You’ll collaborate closely with Financial Crime Operations, 2

LOD colleagues, and partners across the wider business to ensure strong, effective, and well‑governed transaction‑monitoring controls are in place.

As a minimum, you’ll bring:

• Experience with analytical technologies such as SAS or SQL, with the ability to use them to interrogate, interpret and derive insight from complex financial‑crime datasets
• A background in financial crime analytics or Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring, ideally with hands‑on involvement in identifying unusual activity and supporting control optimisation
• Confidence working with large, complex datasets, including an understanding of financial crime specific data sources, structures and behaviours, and the capability to translate complexity into clear outcomes
• A strong understanding of financial crime risks related to non‑retail customers and accounts, and how these risks inform monitoring strategies and effective control design
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong partnerships and collaborate effectively across both 1st and 2nd line teams to support good risk decisions

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