Swindon, United Kingdom
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Northampton, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Join Nationwide’s financial crime team to enhance customer and payment screening systems. You’ll test sanction lists for accuracy and screening filters for effectiveness, using tools like Fircosoft or Actimize. The role involves analysing data, identifying gaps, and improving system performance while ensuring compliance. Strong analytical skills, governance awareness, and stakeholder engagement are key.
You’ll be part of a high performing and committed financial crime team, focusing on testing of our customer and payment screening, as well as testing of the lists we use to screen against. Using your screening experience, you’ll be working to deliver high quality analysis to help us optimise the performance of our financial crime systems. This will involve working with analytical tools and specialist financial crime systems to build, document and maintain key financial crime monitoring solutions.
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 Swindon, Bournemouth, London, Northampton or Glasgow 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.
Uncompromisingly Customer, whatever our role
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
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.
What you’ll be doing
Your will have two primary responsibilities within this role, which relate to different types of testing. The first testing is of our PEP (Political Exposed Persons, SIP (Special Interest Persons), RCA (Relatives and Close Associates) and Sanction lists which we source from Dow Jones - for timeliness, completeness and accuracy. The second testing is of our customer and payment screening filters against direct and indirect (fuzzy) matching effectiveness, helping the business identify where there may be gaps in coverage and working with the team to understand exposure in line with business, compliance and regulatory requirements. Both activities occur periodically within an annual cycle.
Performing both activities will involve working alongside others in the team, as well as stakeholders in the business to identify where configurations or performance can be enhanced. Overall, the aim is to improve efficiency whilst maintaining effectiveness, all within our risk appetite.
About you
As a minimum requirement you will have:
Experience configuring and tuning sanction - screening tools such as Fircosoft or Actimize
Strong understanding of screening - list management, ensuring lists are accurate, complete and up - to date, while confidently investigating and resolving any data issues
The ability to carry out effectiveness testing on customer and payment screening tools, analysing direct and fuzzy match misses to guide improvements and support configuration decisions
Proven technical and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex insights into clear, accessible information for a wide range of colleagues
Strong understanding of governance processes, supported by a track record of accurate, reliable delivery
Excellent problem - solving ability, including identifying and addressing the root causes of screening misses
Confident stakeholder management, working effectively across teams and with external vendors to build strong, collaborative relationships
Experience with SQL, SAS, or similar coding languages is an advantage
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.
Job Info
* Job Identification 1839
* Apply Before 01/29/2026, 11:55 PM
* Locations Nationwide House, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN38 1NW, GB 92/96 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8BQ, GB Kings Park Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6NW, GB Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2 6EP, GB 1 Threadneedle Street, London, Greater London, EC2R 8AY, GB
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