Financial Crime Analytics Senior Consultant

at  Nationwide

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 Customer Risk Assessment. 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, based at either our Swindon, London, Northampton, Bournemouth, Dunfermline, Sheffield or Wakefield office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
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.

ABOUT YOU

• Experience working in AML Customer Risk Assessment
• Strong understanding of the financial crime risks associated with business and non-retail customers/accounts
• Previous experience leading a team
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• 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 with some of the following technologies: SAS, SQL, python, PowerBI, Power Apps, VBA

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• 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.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

You’ll be working with established frameworks leading a new team to build out the Customer Risk Assessment controls for Nationwide’s Business and Non-Retail customers. This includes driving the uplift and redesign of the Non-Retail Customer Risk Assessment. You’ll be responsible for managing the team delivering this review and redesign, including risk mapping and/or gap analysis, calibration of model output and documentation of the redesigned Customer Risk Assessment methodology. In addition to this, you’ll be responsible for communicating updates and progress to your Senior Manager, implementing appropriate quality controls and reporting into financial crime forums.
As the leader of this team, you will be responsible for liaising with 2nd line colleagues and networking with key contacts across the business to ensure robust Customer Risk Assessment controls are in place.