Financial Crime Controls Consultant - Northampton, United Kingdom - Nationwide Building Society

Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society
Verified Company
Northampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Contract Type:
Permanent

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Ref: R00AOR03461

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Closing Date:31 January 2024


We have a unique opportunity within the Nationwide Business Savings Risk Team for a talented and ambitious individual to join our mission to protect the Society against Economic Crime.

As a FC Controls Consultant your primary role will be to execute Enhanced Due Diligence for our existing relationships on a periodic basis, and supporting our onboarding team with Enhanced Due Diligence.


The role will also involve liaising with key stakeholders across the Society, Screening and Transaction Monitoring alert management activities, and supporting with annual regulatory reporting and risk assessments.

Business Savings is an end-to-end business areas, covering everything from Operations, Risk, Change and Product Development. We currently manage c7,500 relationships, with deposits totalling £3.8bn. This opportunity is to expand our existing EDD function in line with business growth.


This is an excellent opportunity for and EDD experienced individual to make a real difference in a developing and growing business area.

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.


What you'll be doing:


  • Support the onboarding team with conducting effective EDD for potential customers, providing guidance, and ensuring that all requirements have been met.
  • Following completion of the EDD for new and existing customers, you will make outcome recommendations to the Accountable Executive, in order to obtain approval.
  • Conduct investigations in response to Screening and Transaction Monitoring alerts.
  • Support with completing annual FCA reporting and risk assessments.
  • Identify opportunities to continuously improve and support operational business readiness and change activities to ensure the business is set up for success, managing customer risk in line with internal policies and regulation.

About you:


  • Proven strong recent AML experience (in Enhanced Due Diligence) in a business banking environment, with expertise in conducting CDD and EDD for a range of entity types.
  • Existing ICA qualification (or equivalent)
  • Communicate with internal and external stakeholders of all levels
  • Excellent investigation, attention to detail and decisionmaking skills with the ability to work in a pressurised environment
  • Strong record keeping and writing ability as well as good experience producing case reports to present findings and decisions.
  • Ability to share best practice with colleagues.
  • Ability to influence at Senior level and experience in stakeholder management ensuring effective working relationship
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Say it straight
  • This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
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Push for better
  • This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
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Get it done
  • This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the endtoend outcome.

The extras you'll get:

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

  • A personal pension
  • if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
  • Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
  • Life assurance worth 8x your salary
  • A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme


  • Gympass

  • Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
  • Access to an annual performance related bonus
  • Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
  • 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different:

Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.


As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us.

It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself.

You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match.

You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK.

We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. The
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