Actuarial Sr. Consultant – Professional Lines Pricing - REMOTE

Nationwide•New York, NY

21h•$118,000 - $222,000•Remote

About The Position

Nationwide is seeking an experienced actuarial professional to join our Professional Lines Pricing team in a highly visible role supporting a dynamic and evolving portfolio. This is an excellent opportunity for a pricing actuary who wants to do more than run analysis. In this role, you will serve as a key business-facing actuarial partner, work directly with underwriting leaders on strategy, and help shape decisions on portfolio performance, pricing direction, and where the business goes next. 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. As an Actuarial Sr Consultant you’ll need to have detailed familiarity with business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies. We’ll 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, you’ll have expertise to provide consultation and recommendations on deliverables and maintain detailed documentation of actuarial models and analyses. You’ll work independently and may lead others.

Requirements

Strong actuarial pricing experience in Property & Casualty insurance, with the ability to work independently and operate as a senior business-facing partner.
Ability to communicate effectively with underwriting leaders and other business partners, not just perform technical analysis.
Strong actuarial foundation in technical tools such as Excel, SQL, and Python.
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.
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis preferred
Generally, six or more years of actuarial experience

Nice To Haves

Professional Lines experience is strongly preferred.
Background in a smaller carrier or similarly hands-on environment where you have needed to work broadly across pricing, strategy, and technical analysis.
Modeling experience, especially for candidates who can pair pricing expertise with broader analytical or predictive-modeling capability.
Experience with Python, R, or similar coding tools.
Generally attained ACAS and is working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS.

Responsibilities

Lead actuarial pricing analysis and strategy support for Professional Lines products and portfolios.
Act as a primary actuarial point of contact for underwriting leaders, helping connect analysis to business strategy and portfolio decisions.
Perform and communicate actuarial analysis in a way that supports changes to the book, pricing recommendations, and broader business decisions.
Partner across actuarial and business functions to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and influence next steps.
Support modeling-related work over time, particularly as future projects develop across the team’s portfolio.
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.