Senior Data Analyst for Financial Crime Data

Nordea; Województwo pomorskie; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join the Financial Crime Data team in Poland. You will shape the 2030 GFCP data strategy, analyse large datasets, and translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across data domains, upstream providers, and IT to ensure trusted, transparent data and actionable insights. Hybrid work arrangement in Poland offers opportunities to influence data sourcing, quality, and governance while advancing your career

Qualifications

• Solid analytical and numerical capabilities, with a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Clear communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
• Good understanding of data flows, data transformations, upstream systems, and data lineage, with the ability to navigate and analyse complex data landscapes.
• Ability to design and implement efficient, reusable data solutions, with a focus on optimisation and continuous improvement.
• Experience translating business needs into practical and scalable technical requirements.
• Hands-on experience with data analytics, tooling, and working with large and complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of the Nordea data landscape, including upstream systems and data flows, to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Act as a key link between GFCP data domains and upstream data providers, ensuring alignment between business needs and data capabilities.
• Proactively identify efficiencies and scalable approaches to sourcing, transforming, and managing data.
• Analyse large and complex datasets to generate insights that drive informed decisions on data sourcing and usage.
• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements and reusable data solutions, supporting long-term scalability.

Skills

Data analytics

Data lineage

Stakeholder engagement

Data quality

Upstream systems

SQL

Data transformations

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Large datasets

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our Financial Crime Data team and play a key role in shaping and executing on the 2030 GFCP data strategy. In this role, you will combine a strong analytical foundation with a deep understanding of the Nordea data landscape to drive actionable decisions around data sourcing, quality, and scalability. You will be working at the intersection of business and data, ensuring that GFCP has a single reliable data foundation that gives the right information at the right time to protect our customers.

About Our Team

Meet the Financial Crime Data team. Our role is to ensure that data used in Financial Crime Prevention is trusted, accessible, and scalable, enabling better decision-making and stronger risk management. We are a team of passionate data analysts across the Nordics, Poland and Estonia working closely with stakeholders across GFCP domains and upstream data providers.

Our mission is to bring the 2030 GFCP data strategy to life by strengthening:

• Data sourcing and lineage transparency.
• Data quality and control.
• Scalable and reusable data solutions.

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.

Main responsibilities in this role

• Develop a strong understanding of the Nordea data landscape, including upstream systems and data flows, to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Act as a key link between GFCP data domains and upstream data providers, ensuring alignment between business needs and data capabilities.
• Proactively identify efficiencies and scalable approaches to sourcing, transforming, and managing data.
• Analyse large and complex datasets to generate insights that drive informed decisions on data sourcing and usage.
• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements and reusable data solutions, supporting long-term scalability.

Who You Are

This is the right role for you if you are a proactive and self-driven individual with a strong curiosity for understanding how data is created, transformed, and used across the organisation. You take ownership and actively seek opportunities to improve how we work with data. You are comfortable navigating complexity and enjoy working across teams to drive meaningful improvements.

You are

• Curious and motivated to understand data end-to- end, from source systems to business consumption.
• A strong problem-solver with an analytical and structured mindset.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders across both business and IT.
• A team player who contributes actively and supports others in achieving common goals.

Your background and skills include

• Solid analytical and numerical capabilities, with a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Clear communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
• Good understanding of data flows, data transformations, upstream systems, and data lineage, with the ability to navigate and analyse complex data landscapes.
• Ability to design and implement efficient, reusable data solutions, with a focus on optimisation and continuous improvement.
• Experience translating business needs into practical and scalable technical requirements.
• Hands-on experience with data analytics, tooling, and working with large and complex datasets.

It would be ideal if you also

• Have experience working with Nordea data (e.g. payments data or similar).
• Experience in driving data sourcing decisions, balancing business needs, data availability, and long-term scalability.
• Have worked with financial crime or regulated data environments.

What We Offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. With us, you will be part of shaping how data is used to support Financial Crime Prevention—contributing directly to a strategic transformation towards 2030.

You will work in a collaborative and inclusive environment where continuous learning, ownership, and innovation are encouraged. 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

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.

Background Check

A Background Check will be performed for the person selected for this position, including internal applicants.