Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

We are looking for a Financial Crime Analytics Consultant to join our growing Financial Crime Analytics function, supporting the enhancement of our Customer Due Diligence (CDD) capability. This is an exciting opportunity for an analytically driven professional to play a key role in strengthening our control framework, working closely with the CDD Manager to monitor, analyse and interpret customer data in line with regulatory requirements.

In this hands-on role, you will interrogate complex datasets to identify risk factors, develop rules, and produce meaningful insight, Management Information (MI) and analysis across CDD activities such as Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB). You’ll collaborate with operational and front-line teams, translating data into clear, actionable insights that drive risk-based decision-making and continuous improvement. Your experience within financial services, combined with a strong understanding of Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) or fraud, will enable you to hit the ground running in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

We’re seeking someone with strong data analysis and interpretation skills, ideally with advanced Excel and working knowledge of SAS and SQL, who is confident explaining technical findings to non-technical stakeholders. This is a chance to be involved in building something new, contribute to a thriving team, and further develop your technical expertise while making a tangible impact on financial crime prevention.

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

 

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 be located at our nearest regional office or hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration and in some locations you’ll be expected to spend at least two days a week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. 

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.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality reporting and management information across CDD activity, including KYC and KYB, ensuring outputs are clear, accurate and supported by meaningful narrative for both operational teams and governance forums. You will play a key part in managing core data sources, carrying out reconciliations, quality checks and integrating new data to maintain consistency and reliability across reporting.

You will conduct detailed analysis to respond to ad hoc queries, uncover trends and provide data-driven insights that support risk-based decision-making, consequence management and ongoing continuous improvement. This will include supporting population management for customers within CDD processes, using your analytical expertise to inform change initiatives and contribute to wider cross-Society projects.

Working collaboratively with Customer Insight and other analytics teams, you will help ensure alignment and consistency across data outputs while contributing to the enhancement of analytical tools and processes within the Protect area. You will also support knowledge sharing across teams, helping to build a stronger collective understanding of CDD, KYC and KYB requirements while continuously improving how data is used to drive effective outcomes.

About you

As a minimum, you will bring:

• Advanced Excel expertise and/or working knowledge of SQL or SAS, enabling you to confidently manipulate, interrogate and analyse large datasets, build robust reporting, and support analytical modelling within a financial crime context

• Proven experience in data analysis to support risk-based decision-making, with the ability to translate complex data into clear operational insight that informs strategy, improves processes and enhances outcomes

• Hands-on experience within an economic crime environment, such as AML, CTF or Fraud, across retail and/or non-retail financial services, giving you a practical understanding of risk indicators and controls

• A strong understanding of regulatory requirements and CDD principles, including KYC and KYB, alongside familiarity with customer onboarding and origination journeys and how these align with compliance obligations

• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the confidence to engage across teams and seniority levels, and the ability to clearly communicate data-led insights to non-technical audiences in a meaningful and actionable way

• Experience supporting or contributing to risk frameworks within financial services, with an appreciation for governance, controls and how data underpins effective risk management and regulatory compliance

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• 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.

The extras you’ll get

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

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• 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

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 financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

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 Jez Davey, and the main recruitment contact is Lorraine Ifil.