Financial Crime Analytics Consultant - SAS

You'll be part of a high performing and committed financial crime team who are responsible for configuring and tuning the customer and payment screening tools within the society. Using your SAS coding experience, you will support development work on the customer screening tool - which screens our customers for PEP (Political Exposed Persons), SIP (Special Interest Persons), RCA (Relative and Close Associates) and Sanction concerns. You will be querying databases and analysing data to help inform next steps, be it configuration changes or incident responses.

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., 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.

Do you have experience in User acceptance testing?, As a minimum requirement you will have

• Ability to work with large datasets primarily using SAS tools such as Enterprise Guide, DI Studio and BASE, or similar coding language (e.g. SQL) to query databases
• Understands economic crime risks and controls - sanction and screening knowledge particularly useful
• Proven technical/analytical skills and the ability to explain those skills to others outside of the role in understandable terms
• Ability to multi-task in a very fast-moving environment which will require you to plan, shape and manage workload
• Track record of delivering with accuracy
• Demonstrate an understanding of governance processes - including enhancing MI (Management Information)
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root-cause and the confidence to recommend solutions
• Helpful if you have experience working alongside technology development teams which use UAT (User Acceptance Testing) environments
• Nice Actimize understanding also useful

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• From January 2026, all Nationwide colleagues will benefit from 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
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• 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

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.