Senior Actuary - Personal Lines State Pricing - REMOTE

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

1d•Remote

About The Position

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Actuary specializing in Personal Lines Auto & Home Pricing. This pivotal role involves leading & owning pricing decisions for states in our Northeastern region and collaborating closely with business partners. This is a key member of our leadership team, driving a partnership-driven approach. 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 a Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert and will provide leadership direction and oversight for the creation and performance of complex actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll manage 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 lead others (directly and/or indirectly).

Requirements

ACAS is required; candidates with FCAS are preferred.
Minimum of eight years of actuarial experience.
Strong background in pricing and product knowledge, proficiency in SQL and Python are preferred.
Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities effectively.
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis preferred
Actuarial designation required, generally as an FCAS.
Generally, eight or more years of actuarial experience.
Expert knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases; expert knowledge of company operations, products, systems and actuarial methodologies; expert knowledge of company, industry, and regulatory practices.
Mastery of Microsoft Office products, analytical software, and programming languages.
Proficient level of organizational agility and conflict management.
Proficient level of command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective and accounting.
Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning.

Nice To Haves

FCAS is preferred.
proficiency in SQL and Python are preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 5-6 pricing actuaries & own pricing decisions for the region, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Serve as a mentor and coach to support the career development of the team’s junior actuaries.
Serve as a thought leader on actuarial methodologies, conducting & leading comprehensive analyses & work plans to ensure quality and accuracy.
Engage with business partners to assess and enhance pricing capabilities in the market.
Acts as technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.
Identifies new ways to utilize data driving overall strategic vision.
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.
Analysis conducted will be used to influence broad strategic vison of Nationwide.
Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources and considerations in an organized fashion.
Creates cohesive presentations and recommendations of actuarial findings that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level.
May professionally represent company's position with regulators, auditors and external vendors.
May negotiate within defined parameters.
Responsible for strategic development and oversite of multiple work plans ensuring accurate and timely delivery of product.
Strategic leader of peer review process.
Responsible for driving collaboration cross functionally, identifies gaps in process, recommends and implements changes as needed to ensure quality work.
Builds strategic business relationships at all levels of the organization to drive solution delivery
Responsible for identifying skill gaps and developing training materials to develop associates skills for future business needs.
Advises on strategic data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data.
Makes recommendations on data and software packages that help drive strategic vision of P&C actuarial and business success.
Has expert knowledge of modeling, predictive modeling, and software applications.
Consults and provides expert advice on new or enhanced product development opportunities, including discussions on data needed for analysis, coding implications and opinions of the viability and profitability of proposals.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.