Senior Consultant Risk and Controls Partner

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Fraud Analytics team as a Senior Consultant Risk & Controls Partner, where you’ll play a pivotal role as a first-line fraud expert. Working at the heart of Fraud Management, you’ll lead in-depth root cause analysis of fraud cases, identify emerging trends, and collaborate with subject matter experts to continuously strengthen our understanding of fraud risks and controls.

You’ll represent Fraud Analytics across key projects, assessing the impact of change initiatives and ensuring fraud risks are clearly identified, understood, and effectively managed. Partnering closely with stakeholders across Fraud and the wider Protect function, you’ll help shape and enhance our fraud prevention strategies, bringing a strong focus on safeguarding customers and the business during a critical integration programme.

We’re looking for an experienced Risk & Controls professional with deep expertise in economic crime, covering both fraud and financial crime disciplines. You’ll bring the confidence to influence senior stakeholders in a high-change environment, alongside excellent communication and documentation skills, enabling you to deliver clear impact assessments, provide robust regulatory guidance, and strengthen control frameworks where it matters most.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

This is a 18-month Fixed Term Contract 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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend either our London, Swindon, Northampton or Bournemouth site approximately once a month
. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part-time, in the office.
If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

In this role, you’ll take the lead on fast-paced impact assessments across fraud and financial crime, playing a critical part in supporting a major integration programme. Acting as a subject matter expert, you’ll ensure all requirements and controls align with key regulatory expectations across Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidance, sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and fraud frameworks, bringing clarity and confidence to complex change initiatives.

You’ll evaluate the current risk and control environment end-to-end, identifying any gaps, vulnerabilities, and areas requiring remediation. Using this insight, you’ll support the uplift, redesign, and implementation of robust economic crime controls across systems, processes, and operational frameworks, ensuring they are both effective and sustainable in a changing landscape.

Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Governance, Compliance, Technology, Operations, and Programme delivery, you’ll help embed stronger, more resilient controls throughout the integration. You’ll produce clear, well-structured risk assessments and governance documentation for senior stakeholders, ensuring all decisions are transparent, traceable, and supported by comprehensive control design across detection, prevention, and monitoring.

As a minimum, you’ll bring:

• Deep subject matter expertise in economic crime, with a strong specialism across fraud, AML and sanctions, and the ability to apply this knowledge across complex, evolving risk landscapes
• Proven experience within Retail and Business Banking control environments, with a clear understanding of how…