Financial Crime Analytics Senior Consultant

As a Financial Crime Analytics Senior Consultant, you will be part of a landmark transformation programme integrating first-line of defence Economic Crime capabilities following a major bank-to-bank integration. Sitting at the centre of a largescale change agenda, this role is key to reshaping how financial crime screening operates across a complex, multi-system environment and requires proven project management capability alongside strong financial crime experience.

Within the Financial Crime Screening Analytics team, you will play a pivotal role in integrating customer and payment screening platforms, ensuring data, rules, controls, and governance operate seamlessly from end-to-end. You will draw on your hands-on financial crime expertise across sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons, Special Interest Persons and Relatives and Close Associates, combined with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, to deliver pragmatic, risk-based solutions in technically complex, data driven settings.

You will bring clear communication, effective stakeholder management and a proactive, well-organised approach, with strong attention to detail and a collaborative mindset. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape future architecture, strengthen control frameworks and enable innovation at scale within a high trust environment.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
This is an 18-month Fixed Term Contract.

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, Bournemouth, Northampton or London offices. We will also consider Glasgow and Newcastle Upon Tyne as a location, noting that these are hubs. Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location, we would welcome your application, and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. 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.

What you’ll be doing

A typical day focuses on delivering project change, working closely with delivery teams to progress screening integrations, and achieve key milestones. You will coordinate activity across multiple systems, review data, and validate outcomes to ensure changes perform as intended. When challenges arise, you will investigate root causes, agree effective solutions, and keep delivery on track, while engaging regularly with technology, operations, risk, compliance, and Business As Usual (BAU) teams to manage dependencies, communicate impacts, and support informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

About you

For this role, we’re looking for:

• Hands‑on experience with financial crime screening tools such as Fircosoft or Actimize, including tuning and configuration logic 

• Experience with Firco modules, including MultiList Manager, MultiLaws Manager and Classic

• Strong financial crime domain knowledge, with a particular focus on sanctions and screening controls

• Experience in project management, delivery or risk management within a change or transformation environment

• Proven ability to work with complex data sets and analyse end‑to‑end system data flows

• A background in technology change, system integration or screening platform development

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.