Senior Business Analyst / Business Analyst

Job ID: 4104

Data, data, data!

Would you like to join a team that manages Nordea's Financial Crime Data, providing a solid and fit for purpose data foundation for the bank's financial crime prevention efforts? In practice this means we identify, ingest, transform, deduplicate, augment, and categorize data, and carry out all the necessary testing and maintenance to ensure it is of the highest quality and easy to use.

Do you have a can-do attitude and are you ready to take the next step as a Senior Business Analyst in Financial Crime Intelligence, Investigations and Analytics (FCIIA)?

Come and join the dynamic fight against international financial crime using the latest technologies and processes in a leading financial institution! Due to expanding requirements and continued success, we are looking for Senior Business Analyst to expand our Financial Crime related Data team within FCIIA.

In the Data team, you will have many opportunities to enact change with your experience in:

• Business Analysis in a Data context
• Data product development

Key to our success is the gift of having an enjoyable working environment with intellectual, driven colleagues, who are keen to solve issues and continually improve the data landscape.

About this opportunity

This is a role within a Financial Crime Prevention unit, that looks across a broad spectrum of financial crime activities and focuses on how emerging technologies can enhance our defenses.

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on. Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. Joining us means you’ll have an impact on how we do banking – today and tomorrow. So bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing standardised data focused requirements to be implemented by our IT partners.
• Analysing datasets to validate data sources are ingested as per specification.
• Identifying complex undocumented relationships across disparate data sources.
• Implementing complex data solutions to facilitate simplified down-stream consumption.
• Integrating with large-scale change programmes both upstream and downstream.
• Documenting data standards, including definitions, business rules and data quality controls.
• Measuring compliance with the data standards and defined data quality targets.
• Liaising with Data Owners, architects and analysts to enhance our data offering.
• Assisting with regulatory focused programmes

The role is available in our office in Helsinki.

Who you are Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us. To build a successful career with us, you’ll work well with others and always act with the stakeholders’ needs in mind. You love learning and trying new things, and you’re excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re honest and dependable, willing to speak up even when it’s difficult, and committed to empowering others. You’re passionate about doing a great job. You are a person who has a passion for data. You can analyse it to answer queries, but also understand where potential limitations exist and can creatively resolve them in either a tactical or strategic manner, as required.

The ideal candidate will find that identifying and resolving data issues is something that gives you great satisfaction.

Your experience and background:

• Experience with data-focused roles and data analysis
• Good hands-on experience using Excel and SQL
• Academic degree in a quantitative subject (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance)
• Excellent English skills – both written and spoken
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership
• Understanding of Agile development principles
• Comfortable sharing ideas and insights within the team

Your application will benefit from demonstrating experience in the below:

• Financial crime prevention
• Financial industry expertise
• Experience working in large-scale change programmes
• Hadoop experience
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS S3, Athena, Glue, Snowflake)
• Coding experience (Python)

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If it sound like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 31/07/2026. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Vittorio.Pocchi@nordea.com. We kindly ask you to submit your CV and cover letter in English.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.