Data Governance Consultant - Financial Crime Analytics

Data Governance Consultant - Financial Crime Analytics

United Kingdom
Swindon, United Kingdom
Greater London, United Kingdom

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Financial Crime Analytics team; a collaborative, forward thinking area that plays a vital role in protecting the Society and its members. We use data in innovative ways to strengthen our defences against economic crime, helping to keep our members' money safe and maintain their trust in us.

The Data Governance function sits at the core of how we protect the Society, ensuring the data that underpins our financial crime activity is accurate, well managed and trusted. By strengthening our data foundations, we enable better decision making, more effective detection of emerging threats, and faster action to keep our members safe. As part of a team of specialists across analytics, fraud and financial crime, you'll contribute to creating a more resilient organisation, one where high quality data helps us stay ahead of criminals and deliver the right outcomes for our members.

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

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 or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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.

Benefits

• 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

What you'll be doing

As a Data Governance Consultant - Financial Crime Analytics, you will help us assess how well we are meeting the Society's Data Governance Framework, recommending improvements to our data controls and putting these changes in place in a sustainable way. You will use your experience with data controls, including data lineage and data quality insights such as dashboards and scorecards, to make sure the data used in our financial crime systems and reports is accurate and clearly understood. You will work closely with subject matter experts in financial crime data and systems to help them make the best use of our tools and capabilities. Through this work, you will improve the quality of the information that supports our decision making and strengthen the action we take to protect our members.

About you

• Proven hands on experience implementing data controls in a large organisation, including the development and rollout of data dictionaries, lineage documentation and data quality scorecards, along with experience resolving data quality issues
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks and recognised industry best practice
• Experience using Collibra within a data governance or data management environment
• Confident using Microsoft Excel and Power BI, or similar analytical and reporting tools
• Experience using SQL, SAS or another programming language such as Python or C#
• Excellent personal organisation with the ability to plan, manage and prioritise your own workload effectively
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge in a constructive way, promoting a positive data culture and helping data controls become an established business as usual activity
• Experience working in one or more of the following areas: Economic Crime, Fraud or Anti Money Laundering

Job Info

• Job Identification 2233
• Apply Before 05/11/2026, 10:55 PM
• Locations Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW, GB 1 Threadneedle Street, London, Greater London, EC2R 8AY, GB