FC Intelligence Analyst in Swindon

As part of our Financial Crime Analytics team, you will play a hands‑on role in strengthening our defences against financial crime. You will use your expertise to help identify potential criminal activity and ensure we meet key money‑laundering and regulatory requirements, including sanctions screening and the monitoring of Politically Exposed Persons, their relatives and close associates, and other individuals who may present a higher risk.

You will also be involved in manual screening activities, supporting miscellaneous requirements, contributing to new business‑as‑usual processes, and assist on projects that enhance the strength and resilience of our controls. Alongside this, you will gain exposure to introductory governance activities, where your ability to think critically, challenge existing processes, and drive continuous improvement will be highly valued.

Our mission is clear and purposeful: to protect NBS and its members through effective, high‑quality screening while continually improving the efficiency and impact of our controls. 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 our Swindon, Bournemouth, Northampton, Glasgow, London office. Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role.

You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here. Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

If you’re a colleague on long term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

The extras you’ll get include:

• 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

You’ll be joining a high‑performing and dedicated financial crime team, focusing on customer screening activities that help safeguard Nationwide. Your work will include using analytical tools such as SAS and Actimize to support and maintain key financial crime monitoring solutions. You’ll carry out manual screening, contribute to projects, and play an active role in initiatives that strengthen our overall control environment.

In addition to this, you’ll provide holiday cover for list update activities across both customer and payment screening, and support tuning tasks using Fircosoft to ensure our day‑to‑day operations run smoothly. You’ll develop a strong understanding of financial crime risks and recommend effective ways to mitigate them, while working closely with colleagues across the business to ensure our controls operate efficiently and deliver the right outcomes.

As a minimum requirement you will have:

• Experience using Fircosoft products to carry out list management tasks and tuning through Firco MultiList Manager, Firco MultiLaws Manager and Firco Classic
• Practical knowledge of SAS and/or Actimize and how they support financial crime monitoring activities
• Proven technical and analytical skills gained within a financial crime function, along with familiarity of the tools used in customer or payment screening
• Recent experience working in a financial crime role involving Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), Special Interest Persons (SIP), Relatives and Close Associates (RCA), or Sanctions risks
• The ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast‑changing environment, managing a variety of tasks confidently
• A strong track record of accuracy, attention to detail and meeting deadlines consistently
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, with the confidence to recommend well‑considered solutions

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.

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.

The hiring manager for this role is Abbie Kelly and the main recruitment contact is Lorraine Ifil.