Consultant, Risk Analytics

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, 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.

This position will be hired on a Success Flex basis.

The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of the following location:

Columbus:
One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus OH, 43215

Work schedule:

2 days in office, 3 days remote.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-based business outcomes? Nationwide has been using data to serve our members and drive business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce accepts an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. Our Risk Analytics professionals play a key role in transforming quantitative data analysis into meaningful insights that drive business results.

Specifically, they serve as the conduit joining quantitative risk analysts to business partners.

As a Consultant, you'll be responsible for the creation and management of risk analytics projects to solve business problems and achieve objectives. You’ll work consultatively with your leadership and business partners to match quantitative analysis with business needs. We’ll count on you to be the key point of contact linking business goals to technical research. It’s imperative that you have both a working knowledge of quantitative analytics and a clear understanding of business needs.

You will need to confident articulating solutions to many levels of leadership.

• Understands and assesses key business needs and responsible for developing the appropriate quantitative modeling solutions to these needs.

• Collaborates with departments across the organization or business functions to accomplish strategic goals, objectives, and initiatives.

• Builds risk analytic strategies for business problems through collaborating, consulting, and driving expectations.

• Collaborates with teams across the enterprise to ensure that consistent model assumptions, processes and outputs are well understood and that modeling standard methodologies are upheld throughout the organization.

• Crafts clear and concise summaries of findings and recommendations. Uses impactful storylines and data visualization geared to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Develops, tests, implements and administers complex quantitative modeling processes and tools.

• Evaluates and ranks quantitative solutions to business problems.

• Communicates the key benefits and limitations of sophisticated modeling tools for business applications.

• Works across teams to ensure governance of modeling tools are applied consistently.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Risk/Actuarial leader.

Education: Undergraduate studies in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, mathematics or related subject area required. Graduate-level studies in a related field with advanced degree highly desirable.

License/Certification/Designation: Progress toward FCAS, FSA, CQF, CFA or similar preferred.

Experience: Typically, seven or more years of related work experience in financial risk modeling or actuarial functions.

Knowledge, Abilities and

Skills:

Proven knowledge of processes and functions spanning the insurance and risk management cycle. Understands machine learning, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo simulations, sampling methods and other statistical techniques applicable to specialized risk modeling. Confirmed mathematical knowledge of specialized risk models such as those used in hedging, economic scenario generation, catastrophe, credit risk, etc. Advanced understanding of risk management operations such as asset-liability management, portfolio risk assessment, hedging, etc.

Strong communication and presentation skills. Advanced…