Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

Northampton, United Kingdom
Swindon, United Kingdom
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Sheffield, United Kingdom

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 Fixed Term Contract.

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.

You can spend at least two days per week, or if part time 40% of your working time, based at either our Northampton, Swindon, Bournemouth, or London office. We will also consider Sheffield as a location, noting that this is a hub.

The extras you'll get

• 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

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, 2LOD colleagues, and partners across the wider business to ensure strong, effective, and well governed transaction monitoring controls are in place.

About you

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.

Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind.

Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think - we're honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand.

Push for better - We don't settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development.

Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

• Job Identification 2255
• Apply Before 04/29/2026, 10:55 PM
• Locations Kings Park Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6NW, GB Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6EP, GB 1 Threadneedle Street, London, Greater London, EC2R 8AY, GB Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW, GB 38 Carver Street, Sheffield, West Yorkshire, S1 4FS, GB