Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

We’re looking for an Analytics Consultant to support the design and build of our Customer Risk Assessment (CRA) for Business Banking. You’ll create and implement enhanced CRA models that strengthen risk coverage, improve data-driven decision making, and support the smooth design, build, and implementation of our uplifted methodology. Your work will shape how we identify and assess customer risk, ensuring accurate impact assessments and robust protection for our members.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

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 be located at our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be quarterly from our Northampton or Manchester office. 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

In this role, you’ll assess and align data quality across multiple systems to ensure they meet the requirements of the CRA methodology. You’ll contribute to detailed impact assessments, scenario modelling, and analysis of rule changes, while also driving the development and documentation of the updated CRA methodology.

You’ll build and implement CRA logic within SAS batch models, participating in coding, tuning, optimisation, and the full model testing lifecycle, including validation and performance refinement. Collaboration will be central to your success, as you work closely with Governance & Controls, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Programme teams to ensure the design is robust and aligned.

About you

For this role, you will have:

• Strong analytics experience in financial crime, risk modelling, or customer risk scoring
• Proficient coding skills with SAS, plus SQL or Python
• Experience working with risk assessment methodologies
• Strong understanding of data quality assessment and variable/threshold calibration
• Ability to model operational capacity and redesign analytical logic
• Excellent communication skills and confident in working with senior stakeholders
• Strong understanding of risk indicators, threshold calibration, and operational modelling

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.