Sr Actuary – P&C Capital Forecasting & Performance – REMOTE

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

10d•$149,000 - $262,000•Remote

About The Position

Nationwide is seeking a Senior Actuary to join the Capital Forecasting team within Enterprise Risk Management. The role will help update the framework that guides how the Property & Casualty business sets, monitors, and improves target returns and target combined ratios. The Senior Actuary applies actuarial judgment and technical expertise to connect underwriting performance, pricing and reserving insights, and capital metrics to enterprise business decisions. The role partners across Finance, P&C Actuarial, Risk Management, Capital Modeling, and business leadership to turn complex analyses into clear targets, recommendations, and consistent capital monitoring and reporting. The Senior Actuary provides expert leadership and oversight for complex actuarial techniques, procedures, and risk analysis; manages research and directs others to support efficient, consistent, integrated data and analysis; and provides strategic direction and business recommendations. The position works independently and may lead others directly or indirectly. It reports to an Actuarial leader and is fully remote, with normal office working conditions. The role is exempt and not eligible for overtime. Nationwide anticipates accepting applications until November 27, 2026, but the posting may close earlier if a strong candidate slate is identified. The position may be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states. The national salary range is $149,000–$262,000, with an expected starting salary range of $149,000–$223,000; actual placement depends on factors including qualifications, role scope, location, and market conditions.

Requirements

Typically eight or more years of P&C actuarial experience or closely related experience in insurance financial risk, capital management, underwriting performance, or corporate actuarial work.
Strong understanding of P&C actuarial methods and the insurance business, including pricing, reserving, loss-ratio analysis, profitability, target returns, and combined ratios.
Ability to evaluate complex quantitative analysis, assumptions, and model outputs and communicate the rationale behind targets and recommendations.
Demonstrated success influencing partners across Finance, Actuarial, Risk Management, modeling, and business functions.
Strong strategic judgment, executive communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, including the ability to make technical concepts actionable for non-technical audiences.
Comfort creating structure and delivering results when a process is incomplete, disconnected, or needs to be rebuilt.
Actuarial designation required for the general role description, generally FCAS; the position-specific posting also states that an actuarial designation such as FCAS or progress toward a comparable designation is preferred and that equivalent P&C actuarial and financial-risk experience will be considered.
Expert knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases, company operations, products, systems, methodologies, and company, industry, and regulatory practices.
Mastery of Microsoft Office products, analytical software, and programming languages.
Proficient organizational agility and conflict management; proficiency in command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective, and accounting; mastery-level perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, and learning.
Regularly and consistently demonstrate Nationwide Values.
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science, or a similar quantitative, modeling, or programming background is preferred.

Nice To Haves

Experience with capital forecasting, stochastic modeling, predictive analytics, enterprise risk, M&A, or related capital and portfolio analytics.
FCAS or progress toward a comparable actuarial designation, as described in the position-specific qualifications.
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science, or a similar quantitative field.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior P&C actuarial subject-matter expert for target returns, target combined ratios, and capital analytics.
Enhance and strengthen the P&C capital monitoring and reporting framework to support capital deployment decisions.
Partner with business units, Finance, and actuarial leaders to establish targets at granular cell-planning unit level and evaluate performance against them.
Review target assumptions, actuarial methodologies, and business performance, and recommend changes when needed.
Analyze loss-ratio history, reserving triangles, pricing and reserving indications, premium trending and on-leveling, assumptions, coefficients, correlation matrices, and related P&C data.
Work with modeling partners to understand capital outputs, assess the reasonableness of results, and use actuarial judgment to identify limitations or emerging issues.
Document assumptions, methods, data sources, and considerations, and present recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior Finance, Actuarial, Risk, and business leaders.
Act as a technical expert in actuarial methodologies, source and manipulate data within standard requirements, and identify new uses of data to advance strategic direction.
Conduct complex analyses by selecting data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations, developing recommendations, and resolving unreasonable results or non-optimal solutions.
Create cohesive presentations and recommendations of actuarial findings for technical and non-technical audiences at OCFO leadership level; may represent the company with regulators, auditors, and external vendors, and may negotiate within defined parameters.
Develop and oversee multiple work plans to ensure accurate and timely delivery.
Lead peer review strategically, drive cross-functional collaboration, identify process gaps, and recommend and implement quality improvements.
Build business relationships across the organization to drive solution delivery.
Identify skill gaps and develop training materials to support associates’ future business needs.
Advise on strategic data-mining techniques and recommend data and software packages; apply expert knowledge of modeling, predictive modeling, and software applications.
Consult on new or enhanced product development, including data needs, coding implications, and the viability and profitability of proposals.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Paid time off: newly hired associates receive a minimum of 18 days per full calendar year, prorated quarterly based on hire date
Nine paid holidays
Eight hours of Lifetime paid time off
Eight hours of Unity Day paid time off
401(k) with company match
Company-paid pension plan
Business casual attire