Senior Actuary – Programs Pricing– REMOTE
About The Position
As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, 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. Senior Actuary – Programs Pricing– REMOTE Overview: We are seeking dynamic leader for the role of Senior Actuary – Programs Pricing. This position is pivotal in driving actuarial excellence and innovation across our delegated authority Casualty, Healthcare, Professional, and Specialty underwriting verticals. 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. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you! 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
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- 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
- Proficiency in Excel, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, and SQL.
- Experience in reinsurance.
- Leadership skills to manage direct reports and improve business outcomes.
- Experience with MGA/MGU programs is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of actuarial students and fellows, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
- Provide comprehensive actuarial support, including profitability reviews, trend analysis, rate change monitoring, and mix shift monitoring.
- Drive program business through innovative ventures and reinsurance strategies, enhancing business results.
- Collaborate with internal business partners and engage in external interactions to achieve organizational goals.
- 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.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
