Senior Actuary - Enterprise Risk Management - REMOTE

Job Description Summary

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, we are looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. As a member of the Actuarial Enterprise Risk Management team, you will play a critical role supporting initiatives that enable Nationwide Financial’s core business segments to achieve sales and profitability targets.

In this role, you will support capital reporting, forecasting and management through initiatives that leverage Nationwide’s balance sheet and ensure strong risk management and governance.

Reports to Sr Director – NF Actuarial ERM

• Capital and Product Expertise:
  Analyze results across all NF product segments, evaluating from both regulatory and rating agency perspectives to inform decision‑making.
• Visibility with Leadership:
  Present capital results and strategic capital initiatives directly to senior leaders, influencing key business conversations.
• Professional Growth:
  Build and strengthen core competencies by supporting and driving projects that unlock Nationwide’s balance sheet.

• Lead quarterly statutory capital reporting and forecasting, ensuring accuracy and actionable insights.
• Support key strategic initiatives, including reserving methodology changes, scenario generator updates, captive reinsurance structures, and other high-priority actuarial projects.
• Partner with actuarial teams across NF to align modeling approaches and assumptions impacting the forecast.
• Identify, recommend, and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and transparency of capital reporting and forecasting.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional partners, both within and outside of actuarial, to support business needs.

• FSA designation is preferred.
• 6+ years of actuarial experience.
• Proficient with actuarial modeling software (AXIS or MG‑ALFA is preferred).
• Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex issues and develop sound recommendations.
• Clear and effective communicator to translate actuarial and capital concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Self‑motivated and intellectually curious, comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving progress with incomplete information.

This role can be fully remote.

• 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.

Reports to Actuarial leader.

Education: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis.

License/Certification/Designation: FSA required. Please refer to the Nationwide Life Insurance Company Actuarial Development Program for additional information.

Experience: Typically, at least eight years of actuarial experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and

Skills:

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…