Financial Crime Analytics Senior Consultant - SAS Viya

Ready to make a real impact in the fight against fraud? 

Join us as a Financial Crime Analytics Senior Consultant and play a pivotal role in protecting millions of members by helping us stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats. In this position, you’ll apply your expertise in SAS and analytics to transform and optimise existing processes, rework existing jobs and build robust, scalable solutions that drive smarter fraud detection and prevention.

Working within our Fraud Analytics team, you’ll collaborate closely with subject matter experts to analyse large, complex datasets, update and enhance existing code and processes and translate insights into actionable strategies for key stakeholders. Your ability to manipulate data, develop efficient queries, and modernise analytical processes will directly contribute to reducing losses while maintaining an excellent customer experience.

This is a high-impact opportunity within our Economic Crime function for someone with strong technical capability, curiosity, and a passion for problem-solving. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are motivated by continuous learning and innovation, you’ll have the chance to influence outcomes across the business and wider industry while helping to safeguard our members against fraud and scams.

This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract opportunity. 

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 assigned to our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Consultant within our Analytics function, you will act as a SAS subject matter expert, leading the development and optimisation of existing processes as we transition to SAS Viya. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to shape meaningful, data‑driven decisions.

Using your expertise in SAS and working confidently with large datasets, you will build robust analytical solutions that uncover trends and generate actionable insights. Your work will play a key role in strengthening our fraud prevention strategies, helping us stay ahead of emerging threats and protect our members.

About you

We’re seeking a technically strong, naturally curious professional with a passion for problem-solving to play a key role in transforming and optimising our SAS landscape as we migrate to SAS Viya. You’ll lead the evolution of existing SAS process flows, modernising legacy code and delivering efficient, scalable analytics solutions that strengthen our fraud detection capabilities, while working consultatively with stakeholders to interpret complex data, uncover trends, and drive actionable insights, alongside supporting and developing others by sharing best practices and contributing to a high-performing team culture.

For this role, you will have:

• Considerable experience in coding with SAS/SAS Viya within an analytical environment, including transforming, migrating, and optimising existing processes, as well as re‑engineering jobs for improved performance and scalability.
• Proven experience in the transformation and optimisation of legacy code and processes
• Strong data manipulation and analysis skills, with experience handling large datasets to identify fraud trends and present insights to stakeholders
• The ability to act as a trusted consultant on fraud subject matter, both internally and externally
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior team members on best practices
• A logical, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving, with the confidence to recommend and implement improvements

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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be FC Analytics Senior Consultant.