Financial Crime Analytics 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.

**What you’ll be doing**:
You’ll be working with a team to support completion of the financial crime transaction monitoring risk assessment, develop 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 SQL 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. You can learn these on the job or bring your experience from a previous role.

**About you**:

- Strong SQL skills - desirably having official SQL qualifications
- Knowledge and experience of data structures associated with financial crimes
- Proven technical/analytical skills in a relevant role
- Strong problem solving skills with the confidence to recommend solutions to various stakeholders
- Experience working in financial crime analytics or transaction monitoring
- Understanding of financial crime risks associated with business and non-retail customers and accounts
- Experience in some of the following technologies: SAS, SQL, python, PowerBI, Power Apps, VBA
- **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.

**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
- Wellhub - 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**:
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