About This Role
Working within the Business Banking team, the Anti-Money Laundering Analyst provides specialist support to internal and external stakeholders, managing varied and often complex requests. This role involves both liaising and back-office activities, ensuring exceptional compliance and data accuracy, and suits a candidate with financial crime analyst experience who is highly organised and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of completing ongoing customer due diligence risk assessments for business customers across a wide range of products and policies
- Use expertise and judgement to evaluate due diligence and manage varied workloads, including complex cases and queries
- Conduct customer outreach via outbound/inbound telephony to obtain relevant due diligence information
- Act as a trusted Subject Matter Expert in Financial Crime processes and procedures
- Confidently interpret policy and provide clear, practical guidance on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), sanctions, and bribery risks
- Play a key role in building strong, effective relationships across Financial Crime Operations and wider business and risk teams, often engaging at a senior level to influence outcomes and support decision-making
- Continually look for ways to improve processes and service delivery, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance both efficiency and the overall customer experience
- Have an understanding of financial crime and the associated processes, being able to proactively make assessments while following strict guidelines
- Be a point of contact with clients for incoming and outgoing communication via telephone and written methods such as email
- Assess and analyse cases while liaising with other frontline teams to make decisions, build a clear picture of each client, ensure that necessary processes are followed, and escalations are made when necessary
- Work within a multi-faceted role which will have rotating responsibilities and duties as the team is highly adaptable to business needs
- Further develop skills in the role as the team’s focus adapts to new aspects of financial crime
Requirements
- Solid knowledge of banking Financial Crime policies, how they are applied to business banking customers, and understanding of risk assessing customers
- A solid understanding of banking operations and risk appetite, with particular insight into business customer types, industry sectors, and the risks they present
- Good understanding of PEPs and sanctions, along with the bank’s responsibilities in managing these risks effectively
- Awareness of specialist banking products and services, such as Treasury, Invoice Finance, and Trade Finance, and the risks associated with them
Nice to have:
- A relevant qualification such as the ICA Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering (or equivalent)
Benefits
Important Details
- Schedule: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- Contract: 12-month contract
- Start date: 11th of January 2027
- Work format: fully office-based in Glasgow during training, followed by hybrid working 2 days per week in the office after training
Application Process
- Quote the Job Reference AMSCWS01250
About the Company
Nationwide is a bank owned by its customers, and for over 130 years, it has supported customers to make the most of their money. As a mutual organisation, it is guided by a social purpose which it interprets as 'Building Society, Nationwide'.
