Asset Liability Management Leader

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

About The Position

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. Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-and risk-based business outcomes? Nationwide has been using data to serve our members and drive business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce has a collaborative culture that delivers outstanding solutions and results. Our Risk professionals play a key role in transforming quantitative data analysis into meaningful insights that drive business results. As Leader, Nationwide Financial Asset Liability Management (ALM), you’ll play a critical leadership role in shaping investment strategy and risk targets across the Nationwide Financial portfolio. In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing and executing ALM strategies that align with the company’s liability structures, liquidity needs, and capital requirements. This leader will lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to optimize asset allocation, lead product line balance sheet optimization, manage interest rate and liquidity risks, and support regulatory compliance. The ultimate objective for this role is to build an industry leading ALM function for Nationwide Financial.

Requirements

Education: Undergraduate degree in finance or quantitative field.
Experience: 10 or more years of experience in investments and/or previous ALM experience within the financial services industry preferred.
Significant experience leading people and projects related to investments and finance strongly preferred.
Understands fixed income, equity, alternative, and derivative asset class concepts and relationships.
Knowledge of insurance and financial services products.
Collaborative with exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Team oriented.
Composed and decisive under pressure or when challenged.
Driven, self-motivated, and inquisitive.
Creative, organized, responsive, and detail oriented.
Able to apply financial knowledge and methods to address investment questions and facilitate improved decision making.
Deep understanding of capital markets, risk management, insurance products, and insurance capital frameworks (regulatory and rating agency).
Knowledge of related accounting, and tax concepts is beneficial.

Nice To Haves

Actuarial designation (FSA or ASA) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads the development, proactive refinement, and performance management for all investment strategies backing Nationwide Financial liabilities. This is done in collaboration with investment, treasury, and risk teams.
Leads the development and tracking of hedging strategies to manage balance sheet risks associated with investment strategy dynamics. (i.e. interest rate exposures, time delay exposures, etc.)
Ownership for driving product, institutional, and M&A deal competitiveness for pricing elements related to ALM factors.
Key contributor to liquidity risk monitoring and management via defining drivers of liquidity draws and informing liquidity ladder usage for liquidity needs
Owns development of asset warehouse allocation decision framework to support Nationwide Financial businesses.
Owns calculation, reporting, and optimization of IMR and internal asset tracking measurements. Connects this information with investment strategy development to further refine actual strategies and approach.
Advisor to Valuation teams on asset selection and other asset related decisions (IMR, disinvestment, reinvestment) to optimize principles-based reserve and capital calculations.
Partners with Enterprise Risk Management the Office of Investments to execute ALM strategies and ensure strategies align to risk tolerances.
Interacts with regulatory bodies and trade groups on actuarial elements of ALM for Nationwide Financial
Provide thought leadership across modeling and forecasting of investment income, capital, liquidity, and other asset related aspects to actuarial functions.
Lead balance sheet optimization across multiple product lines in partnership with business line CFOs, actuarial, and business product teams.
Build and maintain quantitative risk frameworks to support ALM decisions and monitor risks.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk policies both domestically and in evaluating potential offshore opportunities.
Serve as a key liaison to the Asset Liability Committee (ALCO) and other governance bodies.
Represent ALM in enterprise risk forums and strategic planning sessions.
Lead a team of ALM professionals and analysts, providing mentorship and performance oversight.
Works with Controllership, Accounting Policy and Tax to support asset and asset related accounting decisions.
Drive modernization of reporting ecosystems and automation initiatives.
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