Nationwide
Manager Economic Crime Advisory - Personal
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Nationwide is undergoing significant and ambitious change as we continue to evolve how we deliver value to our millions of members. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Economic Crime Risk & Compliance team, a key part of the second line of defence, ensuring the Society delivers its strategy safely while balancing risk and reward.
As a Manager in Economic Crime Advisory, you will play a pivotal role in leading Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Counter-Proliferation Financing (CPF), and Sanctions advisory activity across the organisation. With a particular focus on retail products and customer journeys, you will work closely with teams across Economic Crime Operations, Payments, Products and Customer Support to ensure risks are effectively understood and managed within risk appetite.
A core part of the role involves identifying and assessing current and emerging economic crime risks, including those relating to proliferation financing, and translating these into clear, practical internal policies and standards aligned to regulatory expectations. You will provide expert advice, support, and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders and Accountable Executives, helping them interpret and embed controls within their areas of responsibility.
You will also oversee the effectiveness of these controls, ensuring that risks, issues, and non-compliances are appropriately identified, escalated, and managed through robust governance and mitigation plans. Working across the business, you will help embed strong economic crime practices into processes and customer relationships, driving consistency and continuous improvement.
This is a highly visible and collaborative role, requiring strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to ask the right questions to identify key risks and issues. You will build trusted relationships across the organisation, using your expertise and judgement to influence decision-making and support positive risk outcomes.
If you are proactive, curious, and motivated to make a meaningful impact in managing economic crime risk, this role offers an excellent opportunity to shape how Nationwide protects its members and operates responsibly now and in the future.
Responsibilities
- Shaping and Strengthening Nationwide’s Approach:
- Drive a positive risk and compliance culture by building credible, long-term relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure clear ownership of controls and alignment to risk appetite.
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Assessing and Interpreting Requirements:
- Translate evolving legal and regulatory requirements into practical guidance across frameworks, methodologies, standards, and controls.
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Developing and Enhancing Policies:
- Contribute to the development and ongoing enhancement of Economic Crime policy and supporting control standards.
- Ensure they remain robust and aligned to regulatory expectations and industry best practice.
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Providing Support and Challenge:
- Embed strong and compliant practices across products, processes, and customer relationships.
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Overseeing Risk Management:
- Assess and manage economic crime risks and compliance obligations.
- Ensure issues are appropriately identified, escalated, and governed.
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Monitoring and Mitigating Risks:
- Monitor policy breaches, dispensations, and incidents.
- Ensure lessons learned are captured and used to continuously strengthen controls.
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Maintaining Oversight:
- Ensure changes to products, journeys, and systems effectively mitigate risk while remaining aligned to emerging threats and regulatory expectations.
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Collaborating with First Line Teams:
- Help ensure appropriate and proportionate mitigation strategies are in place to protect Nationwide and its members.
About You
As a minimum, you will own:
- Strong knowledge of financial services products, particularly within a retail banking environment.
- Proven experience managing AML, CTF, CPF, and Sanctions risk, with a solid understanding of UK regulations (e.g. MLRs, JMLSG, OFSI).
- Good understanding of key AML/CTF/CPF and Sanctions risks and typologies across customer, product, and transactional risk, including CDD, EDD, and SARs.
- Practical experience advising on the design and effectiveness of controls managing financial crime risk across customer lifecycles.
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, providing both advisory support and effective challenge.
- Experience participating in risk forums, with confidence to review, question, and challenge to support sound decision making.
- Strong communication, analytical, and reporting skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and articulate complex regulatory requirements clearly.
- Proactive, well-organised, and resilient self-starter, with strong attention to detail, problem-solving capability, and focus on fair customer outcomes.
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- 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.
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- 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.
The Extras You’ll Get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
- 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
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.
The hiring manager for this role is Sarah Anderson-Large, and the main recruitment contact is Thomas Pegg.
Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Manager Economic Crime Advisory.
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