Innovative Analytics Consultant - Financial Crime Analytics

Job description The Innovative Analytics Consultant role sits at the heart of our Financial Crime Analytics function, driving the future of Economic Crime prevention through data, technology, and smarter, streamlined methodologies. As part of the Innovative Analytics team, you’ll work across all areas of Anti-Money Laundering (AML), including Transaction Monitoring, Screening, Reporting, and Customer Risk Assessment, while helping shape how the organisation combats financial crime. A key focus of the role will be supporting and managing ongoing Business-As-Usual (BAU) activity, including developing, testing, and deploying changes and enhancements across a variety of project‑based initiatives. We’re looking for someone who brings a sharp eye for detail and thrives on solving open‑ended challenges by applying their technical expertise. You’ll communicate clearly and approach your work with a strong change‑management mindset, collaborating confidently and drawing on the knowledge of other stakeholders to deliver thoughtful, well‑informed solutions. You’ll gain exposure to a wide network of teams, take ownership of your own projects, and contribute to a growing, forward‑thinking environment where your ideas and initiative will be valued. In a period of rapid evolution, the right mindset matters as much as the right skill set. The ideal candidate is proactive, positive, and comfortable navigating ambiguity, using data and technology to spot opportunities and turn them into well‑designed, well‑documented solutions. Confidence in delivering improvements, tracking their impact and supporting ongoing business needs will set you up for success in this exciting and influential team. This is a 12-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, Northampton, Bournemouth, London, Dunfermline 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. What you’ll be doing You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the function to uncover opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness, matching real business needs with innovative technologies that can elevate our capabilities. Your work will also involve exploring emerging solutions across the industry, identifying tools that can strengthen our reporting, intelligence, and analytics functions, and assessing their suitability for implementation. You’ll support the development of business cases and governance documentation that help drive meaningful change, while collaborating with data quality and governance specialists to maximise the value of both internal and external data sources. Staying ahead of industry innovation will be key, enabling you to proactively identify financial crime risks and shape how we respond to them. Through this, you’ll play a central role in ensuring our controls remain robust, forward‑looking, and aligned with the evolving landscape of financial crime prevention. About you As a minimum, you’ll bring strong analytical capability, with the confidence to work with complex data, explore problems from different angles, and partner with colleagues to shape and embed meaningful improvements. You’ll be comfortable navigating technical details, curious about how things work, and motivated by the opportunity to strengthen financial crime controls through thoughtful, data‑led insight. We are looking for: • Prolific SQL and coding ability, with the confidence to make code changes when required • Knowledge of data structures associated with financial crime • Proven technical and analytical experience in a relevant role • A questioning mindset, able to understand current activity and work with the business to improve it • Experience in some of the following technologies: SAS, SQL, Databricks, Python, Power Platform • Working knowledge of financial crime systems, including KYC, Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring, and Analytics 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 Financial Crime Analytics.