Sr Actuary, ALM

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

2d•$149,000 - $262,000•Hybrid

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. Nationwide is seeking a Sr Actuary to serve as a senior actuarial leader to help strengthen and evolve its Asset Liability Management (ALM) capabilities to support Nationwide’s growth goals while ensuring a long-term disciplined approach is taken to managing risk and capital. This role will lead a sub-team within ALM primarily focused on liquidity, infrastructure support, and ALM monitoring and reporting. This position offers the opportunity to bring both technical depth and strategic thought leadership while balancing people leadership and hands-on work. It is a great position for those that are ownership-minded, entrepreneurial, and energized by building tools, frameworks, and processes that will shape the future of ALM at Nationwide and ultimately influence decision-making in the broader organization. Our Nationwide Financial 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, providing leadership, direction and oversight for the creation and performance of sophisticated actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll handle 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 directly or indirectly lead others.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, or a related quantitative field.
Demonstrated experience in insurer related Asset Liability Management, including prior hands-on work within an ALM team
Proven experience working with Treasury, Investments, or related business partners on ALM, liquidity, and asset related topics.
Professional actuarial designation; FSA credential required
Strong technical, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to balance detailed actuarial analysis, business judgment, and leadership in a changing environment
Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis.
FSA required.
Typically, at least eight years of actuarial experience.
Experienced knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases; knowledge of company operations, products, systems and actuarial methodologies.
Knowledge of industry and regulatory practices is vital.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages.
Proficient level of organizational agility, influencing skills, strategic agility, inspiring others, business perspective and accounting.
Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, capabilities and experiences may take precedence.

Nice To Haves

Experience with frameworks along with technical knowledge around asset/interest related hedging, hedge accounting, and ALM tool development are especially valuable.
Knowledge of actuarial modeling systems such as AXIS and ALFA is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead core ALM focus areas on analytics, liquidity, and reporting, while providing day-to-day leadership and development support for direct reports.
Serve as a primary actuarial partner to Treasury, helping manage cash and liquidity priorities by providing those partners with insight into the liability side of the balance sheet.
Develop, enhance, and scale ALM tools, monitoring capabilities, and management reporting to support broader team effectiveness and improve proactive decision making.
Provide thought leadership across asset and liability management topics including liquidity, interest rate risk, asset risk, and interest rate derivatives.
Help build a more centralized and strategic ALM reporting capability, with the potential to expand the team’s scope into broader asset-related financial reporting responsibilities over time.
Support the broader ALM team as needed.
Provides strategic direction and knowledge for the compilation, categorization and analysis of data and financial reporting and analysis.
Constructs sophisticated testing tools and analyzes product calculations.
Leads, provides expertise and builds strategies for pricing and implementation of products.
Constructs, maintains and completes Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.
Analyzes risks and reinsurance for lines of business.
Establishes reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP and tax) for products.
Builds cohesive presentations, communication strategies and recommendations of actuarial findings that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level.
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