Specialist, Financial - Actuarial

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role requires strong technical skills; implementation of new products, maintenance of the in-force block of business, collaboration with partners with IT, other actuarial teams, and key business stakeholders.

This role will be part of the Life In-force Management team working on reinsurance, key value auditing and policy review.

Preferred experience includes:

• Excel, VBA, and SQL are highly preferred.

• Financial products knowledge

• Knowledge of actuarial methodologies and calculations

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.  

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, OH. However, applications from candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered. 

Internal Compensation Grade: F3

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Job Description Summary

Our Nationwide Financial (NF) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you!

As a Technical Specialist, you’ll gain thorough knowledge of actuarial functions for our NF Products. You will continue to perform increasingly sophisticated actuarial methodologies to estimate future loss and premium results for ratemaking or valuation purposes. We’ll count on you to complete a wide variety of actuarial assignments with minimal direction.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Compiles, categorizes and analyzes data with limited supervision.

• Assists and supports in building sophisticated testing tools, analysis of product calculations and product illustrations.

• Assists with construction, maintenance and execution of financial, actuarial, projection and valuation models.

• Assists with financial reporting and analysis.

• Supports pricing and implementation of products.

• Conducts analysis of risks for NF lines of business.

• Assists and supports in valuation/reserving under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP, and tax) for products.

• Conducts some analysis of reinsurance opportunities.

• May assist within their specialty areas on one or more highly specialized phases of data and analytics which may include data governance, data strategy development, data modeling, data requirements, data manipulation and/or requirements elicitation.

• Help, when requested, in the design, development, and implementation of new programs and/or modifications of existing applications. May assist in the more sophisticated designs, prototypes, coding and other methodologies for new and/or existing applications including development of test plans.

• Supports the development of effective communication and recommendations to leadership. May build supporting documentation.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Financial Director - Actuarial or other financial/actuarial management.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education/Knowledge: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.

License/Certification/Designation: May have passed several actuarial, LOMA or other industry exams. May hold information technology certifications. 

Experience: Generally, two to four years of financial, actuarial or relevant experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: General knowledge of finance or actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, financial or actuarial models, financial/actuarial software, programming languages or databases. Proficient in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), programming languages and likely actuarial models. Basic level of perspective, customer focus, business perspective, and accounting. Proficient level of problem solving, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning on the fly, and making the best use of system capabilities.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible) 

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Financial - Actuarial : $79,500.00-$148,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Financial - Actuarial : $79,500.00 - $119,500.00