Senior Consultant

As a member of our Financial Crime Analytics team, you'll be working hands-on to build and maintain our defences against the constant threat of financial crime.

You'll use your financial crime and/or technical background to ensure we identify potential criminal activity and comply with money laundering regulations whilst optimising the effectiveness and efficiency of key controls.

This role is within our first line financial crime analytics team and will see you specialise in AML transaction monitoring.

The team's aim is to protect the Society and our members from financial crime, ensuring we achieve regulatory and legal compliance in a way that optimises effectiveness and efficiency.

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.

You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .

You'll be working with a team to develop financial crime transaction monitoring rules and deliver high quality analysis to tune thresholds.

You'll be responsible for completing rule performance reviews, and making the necessary rule logic and threshold amendments, to ensure Nationwide's financial crime detection capabilities remain robust.

You'll be producing detailed documentation and using management information to support your analysis and substantiate key decisions in the rule management process.

This documentation will be reviewed by your colleagues and by senior management to ensure financial crime risks are being managed appropriately.

You'll work with large datasets, primarily using SAS to carry out your analysis.

You'll also need to understand the applicable financial crime typologies so you can design optimal solutions to identify these and be using your technical/analytical skills to identify new and emerging financial crime threats.

We envisage a key part of this role being very hands on with the technical aspects of the work, dealing with our entire MI process and working closely with our Modelling teams to help develop advanced financial crime models.

Strong SAS or SQL skills – desirably having official SAS qualifications.
Knowledge of data structures associated with financial crimes
SAS, SQL, python, PowerBI, Power Apps, VBA
Experience working in financial crime analytics or transaction monitoring
Experience working with financial crime models

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.

A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
~ Life assurance worth 8x your salary
~ A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
~ Access to an annual performance related bonus
~ Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
~25 days holiday, pro rata

Nationwide is the world's largest building society. 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.

We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank.

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