Financial Crime - SAS/SQL Consultant in Swindon

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. This is a 12‑month Fixed Term Contract. We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

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

• 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.

The extras you’ll get

• 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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Financial Crime Analytics Consultant.