Financial Crime - SAS/SQL Consultant

As a Financial Crime - SAS/SQL Consultant in our award‑nominated Financial Crime Analytics team, celebrated for its positive, collaborative culture, you’ll play a key role in strengthening Nationwide’s defences against the evolving threat of financial crime. You’ll work with large, complex datasets and apply advanced analytical skills, using tools such as SAS or SQL, to identify unusual or suspicious activity, support money laundering compliance, and enhance the effectiveness of our core controls.

You’ll bring confidence in navigating complex, financial, crime-specific data sources, structures, and behaviours, with the ability to translate this complexity into clear, meaningful outcomes. Your expertise will help us make smarter, data-led decisions and ensure our controls remain robust, efficient, and responsive to emerging risks.

This role sits within Nationwide’s 1st line of defence (Economic Crime), where you’ll join the Transaction Monitoring function. You’ll contribute to the development, management, and continuous optimisation of transaction monitoring controls across our products, helping us use data intelligently and proactively to protect our members and maintain stringent regulatory compliance.

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 several times a year at one of our UK offices. 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

You’ll join the team within the Financial Crime Analytics Transaction Monitoring function, responsible for building, managing, and continuously enhancing the transaction‑monitoring controls that protect Nationwide’s products. This includes rule development, threshold tuning, and ongoing performance evaluation.

You’ll work with analytics tools such as SAS, providing clear updates on rule performance and key changes to your manager and relevant Financial Crime forums.

You’ll collaborate closely with Financial Crime Operations, 2nd line of defence colleagues, and partners across the wider business to ensure robust, effective, and well‑governed transaction‑monitoring controls are in place.

About you

As a minimum, you’ll bring:

• Experience with SAS and/or SQL, with the ability to use them to interrogate, interpret, and derive insight from complex financial crime datasets
• A background in financial crime analytics or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring, with hands‑on involvement in identifying unusual activity and supporting control optimisation
• Confidence working with large, complex datasets, including an understanding of financial crime-specific data sources, structures, and behaviours, and the capability to translate complexity into clear outcomes
• A deep understanding of financial crime risks and how these risks inform monitoring strategies and effective control design
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build solid partnerships and collaborate effectively across both 1st and 2nd line teams to support good risk decisions

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 Consultant.