As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey!
This role will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing valuation processes for the life insurance lines. This role will be heavily involved in Rate and Dividend setting, Illustration Actuary Testing, New York 210 compliance, modeling, and presenting for assigned products.
Additional responsibilities include ad hoc reporting and responding to regulatory requests as well as providing thought leadership and executional support around managing profitability on our entire Life Insurance block.

Preferred Skills Include:

• Valuation/Pricing experience with life products, especially IUL, or similar products
• Continuous process enhancement
• Proven track record of communication and attention to detail
• Experience with ALFA, AXIS, and SQL or similar programs/coding languages

This role can be staffed at the internal pay band G4 or possibly F4. This role can be fully remote.

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Job Description Summary
Our Nationwide Financial (NF) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools and 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 an Actuarial Consultant, you’ll need to be adept at actuarial functions and know NF products to perform sophisticated, quantitative actuarial analyses. In addition, we’ll count on you to provide expertise, including consultation and recommendations, on actuarial models and issues.
This position may have the opportunity to be a part of the NF 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. Should you choose to participate in the program, you will participate in two to three rotations of one year each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.
Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Compiles, categorizes, and analyzes data.
• Performs construction of testing tools and analysis of product calculations.
• Constructs, maintains, and conducts Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.
• Performs financial reporting and analysis.
• Leads pricing and implementation of products.
• Analyzes risks for lines of business.
• Establishes reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP, and tax) for products.
• Performs reinsurance analysis and pricing.
• Supports and may develop effective communication strategies and recommendations to leadership.
• Leads peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
• Maintains relationship with business customers as well as builds new relationships.
• Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes.

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, or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis.
License/Certification/Designation: Generally, has attained ASA and is actively enrolled in the Actuarial Development Program; working towards FSA. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Experience: Typically, three to five years of actuarial experience.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases. Proficient in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages. Should have basic competencies including: command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective, and accounting. Should have highly-developed competencies in: 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.
We currently anticipate accepting applications until 03/17/2024. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.
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,
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Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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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.
The national salary range for Consultant, Actuarial - NF : $93,000.00-$192,000.00
The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Actuarial - NF : $103,000.00 - $155,000.00

• Compiles, categorizes, and analyzes data.
• Performs construction of testing tools and analysis of product calculations.
• Constructs, maintains, and conducts Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.
• Performs financial reporting and analysis.
• Leads pricing and implementation of products.
• Analyzes risks for lines of business.
• Establishes reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP, and tax) for products.
• Performs reinsurance analysis and pricing.
• Supports and may develop effective communication strategies and recommendations to leadership.
• Leads peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
• Maintains relationship with business customers as well as builds new relationships.
• Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes