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Sr Actuary, ALM

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Professional actuarial designation; FSA credential required
  • Proven experience working with Treasury, Investments, or related business partners on ALM, liquidity, and asset related topics.
  • Demonstrated experience in insurer related Asset Liability Management, including prior hands-on work within an ALM team

Responsibilities

  • Lead core ALM focus areas on analytics, liquidity, and reporting, while providing day-to-day leadership and development support for direct reports.
  • Serve as a primary actuarial partner to Treasury, helping manage cash and liquidity priorities by providing those partners with insight into the liability side of the balance sheet.
  • Develop, enhance, and scale ALM tools, monitoring capabilities, and management reporting to support broader team effectiveness and improve proactive decision making.
  • Provide thought leadership across asset and liability management topics including liquidity, interest rate risk, asset risk, and interest rate derivatives.

Key facts

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Verbal Communication Skills
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Leadership
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Strategic Thinking

About the company

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Nationwide

Insurance

Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s. An industry leader in driving customer-focused innovation, Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. For more information, visit www.nationwide.com.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryInsurance
Company size10001

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Job description

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.

Nationwide is seeking a Sr Actuary to serve as a senior actuarial leader to help strengthen and evolve its Asset Liability Management (ALM) capabilities to support Nationwide’s growth goals while ensuring a long-term disciplined approach is taken to managing risk and capital. This role will lead a sub-team within ALM primarily focused on liquidity, infrastructure support, and ALM monitoring and reporting.

This position offers the opportunity to bring both technical depth and strategic thought leadership while balancing people leadership and hands-on work. It is a great position for those that are ownership-minded, entrepreneurial, and energized by building tools, frameworks, and processes that will shape the future of ALM at Nationwide and ultimately influence decision-making in the broader organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead core ALM focus areas on analytics, liquidity, and reporting, while providing day-to-day leadership and development support for direct reports.
  • Serve as a primary actuarial partner to Treasury, helping manage cash and liquidity priorities by providing those partners with insight into the liability side of the balance sheet.
  • Develop, enhance, and scale ALM tools, monitoring capabilities, and management reporting to support broader team effectiveness and improve proactive decision making.
  • Provide thought leadership across asset and liability management topics including liquidity, interest rate risk, asset risk, and interest rate derivatives.
  • Help build a more centralized and strategic ALM reporting capability, with the potential to expand the team’s scope into broader asset-related financial reporting responsibilities over time.
  • Support the broader ALM team as needed.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Demonstrated experience in insurer related Asset Liability Management, including prior hands-on work within an ALM team
  • Proven experience working with Treasury, Investments, or related business partners on ALM, liquidity, and asset related topics.
  • Professional actuarial designation; FSA credential required
  • Strong technical, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to balance detailed actuarial analysis, business judgment, and leadership in a changing environment
  • Experience with frameworks along with technical knowledge around asset/interest related hedging, hedge accounting, and ALM tool development are especially valuable.
  • Knowledge of actuarial modeling systems such as AXIS and ALFA is a plus.

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. 

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Job Description Summary

Our Nationwide Financial 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 Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert, providing leadership, direction and oversight for the creation and performance of sophisticated actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll handle research and direct others to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide a strategic vision for the team and deliver business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers. You’ll work independently and may directly or indirectly lead others.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provides strategic direction and knowledge for the compilation, categorization and analysis of data and financial reporting and analysis.

  • Constructs sophisticated testing tools and analyzes product calculations.

  • Leads, provides expertise and builds strategies for pricing and implementation of products.

  • Constructs, maintains and completes Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.

  • Analyzes risks and reinsurance for lines of business.

  • Establishes reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP and tax) for products.

  • Builds cohesive presentations, communication strategies and recommendations of actuarial findings that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Actuarial leader.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

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

License/Certification/Designation: FSA required. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

Experience: Typically, at least eight years of actuarial experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Experienced knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases; knowledge of company operations, products, systems and actuarial methodologies. Knowledge of industry and regulatory practices is vital. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages. Proficient level of organizational agility, influencing skills, strategic agility, inspiring others, business perspective and accounting. Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning.

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

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources 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.

We currently anticipate accepting applications until 06/29/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

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.

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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Smoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.


For NY residents please review the following state law information: Notice of Employee Rights, Protections, and Obligations LS740 (ny.gov) https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

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 Sr Actuary, NF : $149,000.00-$262,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Sr Actuary, NF : $149,000.00 - $223,000.00

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