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Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

Nationwide Building Society
Manchester
7 months ago
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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,based at either 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 tohybrid working here.


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
  • 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

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.


The extras

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

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