[Hiring] Actuarial Associate @Nationwide

Role Description

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, 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.

Nationwide’s Excess Casualty Lines team is hiring a Pricing Modeler to help shape sophisticated insurance pricing and deliver insights that influence business decisions. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong technical skills and either a solid actuarial foundation, Excess Casualty insurance knowledge, or both.

In this position, you will work at the intersection of pricing strategy, actuarial thinking, and predictive analytics. You will partner closely with teammates and business partners to build, enhance, and refine excess casualty insurance pricing. You will also have the opportunity to work across teams on a variety of projects, expand your technical toolkit, and deepen your understanding of how pricing drives real business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert in actuarial methodologies, conducting complex analyses and providing high-level consultation.
• Build and maintain business relationships, leading pricing and product initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders to deliver actionable, data-driven insights that inform strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• A minimum of five years of actuarial experience.
• ACAS certification and working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS.
• Proficiency in Python, R, Power BI, Databricks, SQL, analytical software, and programming languages.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and developing strategic pricing plans.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work independently.

Requirements

• Researches and implements financial engineering, data science and statistical techniques for risk management and business applications.
• Completes regular testing of risk limits to provide distinct management guidance on asset allocation, risk transfer and product growth decisions.
• Owns complex quantitative modeling processes and philosophies. Identifies industry standards to understand if models are working as intended.
• Collaborates to ensure that consistent model assumptions, processes and outputs are well understood and that modeling standard methodologies are upheld.
• Reviews and analyzes model output to identify model limitations and their impact. Provides corrective quantitative methods.
• Crafts and updates model documentation for business continuity purposes.
• Collaborates to develop creative solutions to business problems.
• Acts as the technology owner for Risk Analytics.
• 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.
• And more.