Financial Crime Analytics Consultant

We’re looking for a high-performing individual to join our Fraud Analytics function to support Nationwide in the prevention and detection of fraud and scams across our portfolio.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work across all areas of the analytics team as well as with stakeholders across the business to design, develop and implement meaningful fraud analyses, reporting and MI. You will be instrumental in reshaping and modernising our analytics environment, delivering actionable insights that support the business in preventing fraud.

You’ll have the ability to collaborate with others to ensure we’re working together effectively. This role will provide the opportunity to work within our Economic Crime department and with the wider business. For us, it is not just about having the right experience, you need to have an open mind, be able to work collaboratively and be driven to learn and succeed.

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 London, Swindon, Northampton, Belfast, Bournemouth, Sheffield, Wakefield, Manchester or Dunfermline 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 will use your technical and analytical skills to support the wider analytics team, and business, by creating and delivering insightful, actionable analyses to help mitigate significant financial loss and monitor performance
• You will also be involved in ad hoc requests for information and analyses from regulators and the wider business
• You will be involved in all stages of the reporting process, from requirements gathering, development, testing and through to deployment \ delivery

About you

As a minimum requirement you’ll need:

• Experience in coding languages (for example SQL\SAS\Python etc)
• Experience in visualisation software and best practices (for example Power BI\Tableau etc)
• Strong knowledge of excel for analysis, including pivot tables and VLookups etc.
• A logical approach to problem solving and the confidence to make and develop recommendations for solutions
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels and explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Strong capability to interpret complex data, identifying trends and effectively communicating findings to stakeholders
• A change mindset - experience of leading\supporting changes to process
• A logical approach to problem solving with the confidence to make recommendations for solutions
• Excellent personal organisation with the ability to manage your own workload and prioritise effectively 
• Forensic attention to detail 

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:

• 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

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.

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.