Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

You’ll be part of a high performing and committed Financial Crime team, focusing on customer and payment screening. Using your experience to optimise our screening rules/algorithms, 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 such as SAS 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, at one of our offices. 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.  

This role will be based two days per week in either Swindon, Northampton or Bournemouth.

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. 

What you’ll be doing

Your primary role within the team will be to deal with ad-hoc queries and incident management, to identify root causes of these issues and to work with the rest of the team to identify fixes and implement change where needed. Where screening controls require amending you will work closely with the business to ensure operational effectiveness, whilst also consulting with stakeholders such as compliance and risk to ensure regulatory expectations are being met.

You will also work on various projects across customer and payment screening, as well as engage in self-identified process enhancement activities. You will need to understand Financial Crime risks and be able to recommend solutions to mitigate these. You’ll produce high quality documentation and be able to articulate findings to others within analytics, as well as key stakeholders within the wider business.

About you

• Experience of tuning, using Ficrosoft to a) create Exceptions, and b) write Rules
• Experience in list management
• Experience of using tools such as Firco MultiList Manager, Firco MultiLaws Manager, and Firco Classic
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-moving pressurised environment; especially in relation to incident management
• Proven technical/analytical skills
• Track record of delivering with accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as proven stakeholder management
• Strong problem-solving skills with the confidence to recommend solutions

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience using SAS tools such as Enterprise Guide, DI Studio and BASE as well, or similar coding lanugage (e.g. SQL)
• Experience working in a Financial Crime role
• Experience of working with other Financial Crime and screening systems such as Actimize 

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these. 

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.  

The extras you’ll get

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

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Gympass – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata 

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.     

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.     

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.   

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. 

The hiring manager for this role is Siobhan Garside  and the main resourcing contact is Shelly Todman.