Actuarial Specialist - Pet Pricing (Remote)

Nationwide • Columbus, OH

18h • Remote

About The Position

Join Nationwide’s Pet business unit as an Actuarial Specialist - Pet Pricing and help us protect what matters most—our customers’ beloved pets. In this role, you’ll combine analytical expertise with innovative thinking to design and price products that deliver real value to pet owners. Our team is collaborative, forward-thinking, and passionate about creating solutions that make pet insurance accessible and reliable. If you’re looking for a role where your work directly impacts customer satisfaction and business success, this is the place for you. Our Property and Casualty (P&C) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. As an Actuarial Specialist, you’ll gain a more thorough knowledge of our actuarial functions for our P&C products. You’ll also perform increasingly complex mathematical and quantitative actuarial analyses that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide to our customers. This position has the opportunity to be a part of the P&C Actuarial Rotation Program, which will give you the potential opportunity to work on various actuarial, analytics, and risk management teams to learn and develop across different actuarial functions. Should you choose to participate in the program, you will participate in two to three rotations of two years each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
• Exam progress toward ACAS designation
• 1-3 years of actuarial experience, ideally in P&C insurance
• Strong technical skills in actuarial software, Microsoft Office (including VBA), and programming languages like R, Python, or SQL.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment.
• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
• Generally, three or more years of actuarial experience.
• General 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 business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results and learning ability.

Nice To Haves

• This position can be remote for applicants who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain actuarial models that guide pricing, valuation, and financial projections for pet insurance products.
• Analyze complex data to uncover trends, assess risk, and support strategic decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop new products and ensure competitive pricing.
• Prepare clear, actionable insights and recommendations for leadership to drive business growth.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation through peer reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Continues to develop deeper knowledge of actuarial methodologies, allowing the ability to source and manipulate more complex data within standard requirements.
• Conducts analyses that adhere to actuarial standards by selecting appropriate data sources and making assumptions to develop recommendations.
• Notes and suggests potential resolution to any unreasonable results and reports to leader.
• 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.
• Adheres to assigned work schedule to ensure timely completion of individual tasks and group projects.
• Notifies leadership anticipating of any possible missed deadlines and possible impact.
• Performs peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
• Continues to develop business relationships across PC multi-channel finance.
• Begin developing relationships in other areas of finance to gain business acumen
• Assists with onboarding and training new associates on standard work processes.
• Uses data mining techniques to identify new relationships in data.
• Gains understanding and the ability to build models in different software packages.
• Explores the use of new software packages.
• Has basic knowledge of predictive modeling.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level