Financial Crime Manager

Step into an exciting opportunity as a Financial Crime Manager, where you'll play a key role in protecting customers, colleagues and the organisation from financial crime. As part of the first line of defence within Financial Crime Operations, you'll help ensure compliance with anti-money laundering, sanctions and counter-terrorist financing requirements while delivering positive customer outcomes. Working at the heart of a growing and evolving area of the business, you'll contribute to major transformation initiatives, including new risk assessment approaches and technology platforms that are helping shape the future of banking.

We're looking for an experienced people leader with a strong background in financial crime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), sanctions, customer due diligence or a related risk and compliance environment. You'll bring proven Business Banking and SME knowledge, enabling you to provide expert guidance on complex cases while leading, coaching and developing a high performing team. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll drive operational excellence, strengthen financial crime controls and support continuous improvement, playing a pivotal role in the organisation's ambition to become one of the UK's leading banking providers.

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 Glasgow, Northampton or London 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. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .

Virgin Money is now part of Nationwide

Nationwide acquired Virgin Money in October 2024. Virgin Money continues to serve customers on the high street, and there will be a phased and considered integration over the coming years.

You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefit ting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process. If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

Uncompromisingly Customer, whatever our role

The extras you’ll get

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

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…