As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey!
This role can be filled at the F4 Actuarial Specialist level depending on work experience and background.
Job Description Summary
Our Property and Casualty 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 an Actuarial Sr Consultant youll need to have detailed familiarity with business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies. Well count on you to be adept at complex actuarial techniques and work independently to combine advanced actuarial and business knowledge to provide high-level analysis. Additionally, youll have expertise to provide consultation and recommendations on deliverables and maintain detailed documentation of actuarial models and analyses. Youll work independently and may lead others.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
* Acts a technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.
* Conducts complex analyses, adhering to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations and developing recommendations. Accountable for resolving unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment. Begins using results to influence decisions at a higher level.
* Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources and considerations in an organized fashion.
* Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the senior Actuarial leadership level. May professionally represent company's position with regulators, auditors and external vendors. May negotiate within defined parameters.
* Develops cross functional work plans and ensures accurate work product is delivered.
* Leads cross functional peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work and drive innovation.
* Builds business relationships and leads cross functional communication with team members, customers and business partners
* Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes. Assists in creating new training materials.
* Applies data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data and make recommendations based on findings. Has expert ability or knowledge of modeling, validation and predictive modeling. Explores the use of new software packages and makes recommendations.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Actuarial Leader
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis preferred
License/Certification/Designation: Generally attained ACAS and is working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE PC INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Experience: Generally, six or more years of actuarial experience
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Detailed knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases. Proficient in Microsoft Office products, analytical software and programming languages. Should have basic competencies including command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective and accounting. Should have proficient of competencies for including business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results and learning ability.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values and Guiding Behaviors.
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.
Evaluation Activity: KB 6/2020
Columbus, OH
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and financial services for individuals and businesses in the United States. It offers homeowners, renters, condo, private client, flood, auto, motorcycle, snowmobile, car, ATV, RV, boat, personal watercraft, scooter, life, pet, dental umbrella, identity theft, accident, specialty liability, travel, and wedding insurance products; investment and retirement solutions, such as annuities, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, life insurance, and retirement plans; and banking services, including checking, savings, individual retirement, and money market accounts, as well as certificates of deposit; mortgage, factoring, and equipment financing services; and home, auto, and personal loans.
The company also provides business insurance products comprising business owner’s policy, liability, auto, workers' compensation, property, and excess and surplus. In addition, it provides back-office administrative support services, pensions, and long-term savings plans. The company was formerly known as Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and changed its name to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 1955. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.