Sr. Actuary - Filings Transformation Leader - REMOTE
About The Position
Shape the future of insurance regulatory filings at Nationwide. As the Sr Actuary – Filings Transformation Leader, you will lead a multi-year effort to centralize, simplify, and scale rate filing processes across Commercial Lines, Excess & Surplus, Specialty, and Nationwide Agribusiness. This is an opportunity for an experienced P&C actuary to improve how filing work gets done, enable more consistent execution, and help teams accelerate to a “build once, use many” operating model. 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
- Deep experience with P&C actuarial work, insurance rate filings, or related regulatory processes; commercial lines or personal lines experience may be relevant.
- An actuarial credential required for filing signatory responsibilities, generally an FCAS or equivalent qualification.
- The ability to connect actuarial judgment, regulatory requirements, data, technology, and business strategy.
- A track record of leading through ambiguity, influencing without relying solely on authority, and moving complex work from concept to delivery.
- A constructive sense of urgency and resilience to improve processes that have developed over time.
- 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
- You do not need to be a hands-on programmer, but you should recognize how tools such as SQL, Excel, Python, R, automation, and AI can accelerate actuarial work and execute on that vision.
Responsibilities
- Lead the current-state filings capability while defining and executing a long-term filings transformation roadmap.
- Direct a team of Actuarial Associates ongoing filings/reporting and implementation work, providing structure, prioritization, coaching, and delivery oversight.
- Partner across Pricing, Legal, Product, Government Relations, Technology, and Departments of Insurance to improve efficiency, quality, and regulatory responsiveness.
- Identify opportunities to use automation, artificial intelligence, and modern analytical tools to improve processes and convert filing information into scalable business insights for profitability reviews.
- Establish strong peer-review and governance practices, resolve process gaps, and promote consistent actuarial standards across portfolios.
- Translate complex actuarial analysis into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical senior leaders.
- Represent Nationwide’s position with regulators, auditors, and external partners when needed.
- 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
Senior
