P&C Actuarial Development Program - Senior Analyst, Actuarial - ESS Reserving
Job Description
Role Overview
If you are early in your actuarial career and looking for a role that offers strong development, business visibility, and exposure beyond traditional reserving work, this could be an excellent opportunity.
This role sits on our E&S Specialty Reserving team and is part of Nationwide's P&C Actuarial Rotation Program. In this position, you will perform complex mathematical and quantitative analyses, build foundational reserving and actuarial skills, and develop your ability to apply actuarial methodologies in a business setting. You will work with modern tools, help build diagnostic capabilities, and contribute to work that improves how the team explains and understands data.
Generating actuarial analysis alongside reserving leadership in support of business insight and decision-making, this role offers meaningful exposure to insurance finance, data analysis, and cross-functional partnership. As part of this work, you will gain experience supporting reserving analysis while building a broader understanding of how actuarial, pricing, underwriting, and finance teams work together to manage performance and strategy.
What makes this opportunity stand out
- Structured development through the P&C Actuarial Rotation Program
- Opportunity to build foundational experience in reserving, actuarial analysis, and insurance finance
- Exposure to a team that has recently gone through significant modernization and is using state-of-the-art tools
- Opportunity to help build diagnostic functionality and improve how the team explains and understands data
- Ability to work with partners outside of reserving, including pricing and underwriting teams
- Opportunity to present work not only within reserving, but also to broader leadership, finance, CFO, and business partner audiences
- Strong long-term career value for candidates who want broad actuarial and business experience early in their career
The ideal candidate will have
- Ability to learn new actuarial techniques in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational skills
- Effective communication skills and a professional presence
- Problem solving ability, innovation, teamwork, and speed to action
- Strong quantitative aptitude and a genuine interest in learning
- Curiosity, enthusiasm, and the ability to learn new tools, concepts, and business applications
What we are looking for
- A candidate early in their actuarial career who wants to grow in a developmental rotational environment
- Progress toward actuarial credentialing, including at least one actuarial exam passed
- Academic background in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science, or a related quantitative discipline
- Ability to explain analysis clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Interest in gaining exposure beyond traditional reserving work through cross-functional partnership
Preferred experience
- Internship, rotational, tutoring, teaching, or other early analytical experience
- Exposure to actuarial, analytical, modeling, programming, or data-mining tools
- Insurance, reserving, pricing, underwriting, or broader financial analysis exposure is helpful but not required
- This position is a strong fit for students who are actively taking actuarial exams and looking for a role with meaningful development and long-term career growth
Work Arrangements:
- This role will be staffed at the E pay band and will sit in Columbus (OH) or Des Moines (IA). This role will have a hybrid work arrangement of at least two days per week in-office and up to three remotely.
- This role can be staffed in other locations for existing Nationwide associates that are already working in other locations.
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Job Description Summary
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 Analyst, you’ll be expected to learn about the insurance and finance industry, products Nationwide provides and a variety of actuarial software. You will be trained in company and business operations while performing mathematical and quantitative actuarial analyses essential to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers.
This position is expected to be a part of the P&C Actuarial Rotation Program, which will give you the potential opportunity to work on various actuarial, analytics, and risk management teams to learn and develop across different actuarial functions. You will be expected to participate in three rotations of two years each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Begins to develop knowledge of actuarial methodologies, allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.
Conducts analysis, that adheres to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources and making assumptions to develop recommendations. Notes any unreasonable results and reports to leader.
Documents assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.
Prepares actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences.
Adheres to assigned work schedule to ensure timely completion of individual tasks and group projects. Notifies leadership anticipating of any possible missed deadlines.
Participates in peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
Begins developing business relationships across property and casualty multi-channel finance to provide extraordinary care to all customers.
Completes all required training in a timely manner.
Develops understanding of data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data. Gains understanding of, and the ability to use, modeling software.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to an Actuarial, Analytics, or Risk Management leader.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
License/Certification/Designation: Generally, has passed one or more actuarial exams and is actively enrolled into the Actuarial Student Program. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE PC INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL STUDENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Experience: No actuarial experience required. Typical candidate may have internship, associate rotation, associate teaching, or tutoring experience.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Basic understanding or ability to learn Microsoft Office products, analytical software and programming languages. Should have basic competencies including business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results and learning ability.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
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Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Sr Analyst, Actuarial - P&C : $69,500.00-$129,000.00The expected starting salary range for Sr Analyst, Actuarial - P&C : $69,500.00 - $103,500.00