Job Posting Title Financial Crime MI & Analytics Specialist Salary Band £34, 319 - £46, 431 Grade: MP3 Job Description About the Role As a Financial Crime MI & Analytics Specialist, you’ll play an important role in supporting the bank’s ability to understand, monitor, and reduce financial crime risk. You will work with a wide range of data sources to produce high‑quality Management Information (MI), analytical insights, dashboards, and reporting that guide thoughtful decision‑making and strengthen our financial crime strategy. Int his role you’ll develop MI packs, maintain and enhance Power BI dashboards, and help ensure that our data remains accurate, timely and meaningful. Your work will support risk governance, operational efficiency, capacity planning, and proactive risk detection across the bank. You will also contribute to the continuous improvement of the bank’s analytics capability; identifying trends, interpreting customer behaviours, and helping shape analytical models used in financial crime detection. About You You will be a financial crime professional who enjoys working with data and transforming it into insights that are clear, accessible and valuable. You bring curiosity, care, and a collaborative mindset, and you feel energised by partnering with stakeholders across the organisation to enhance our financial crime resilience. Skills You will bring: Experience delivering MI enhancements and analytical insight for Financial Crime Operations Inclusive communication skills and the ability to present data clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences Careful attention to detail and accuracy and a commitment to accuracy in reporting Ability to identify process improvements and raise financial crime awareness Strong analytical skills, including working with large datasets and identifying anomalies or inconsistencies High IT literacy and expertise with MS Office, especially Excel Experience with SQL/SAS and Power BI Experience producing clear visualisations such as dashboards and reporting packs Knowledge of financial crime risks and controls About Us The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers. As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you. What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: Financial Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%) Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) Annual performance related pay reviews Colleague mortgage scheme Electric car salary sacrifice scheme Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection Access to our financial advisers Access to a range of high street and online discounts Work/Life Balance A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 30 days’ annual leave bank holidays The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood Health and Wellbeing Private medical insurance Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme Access to an employee assistance programme Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s Two paid volunteering days’ each year Cycle to work scheme Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at kate.wilkinson@newcastle.co.uk Company: Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited