[Hiring] Actuary COLI/BOLI Pricing @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! Join Nationwide’s Institutional Life team and help drive pricing strategy in one of the most specialized areas of the life insurance market. This role sits within our COLI/BOLI business and is ideal for an actuary who brings strong pricing judgment, business partnership skills, and the ability to operate comfortably in a fast-moving, highly visible environment.

In this role, you will focus primarily on new business pricing and quoting, supporting sales and business partners while helping shape strategy for a growing, market-leading business. You will also have the opportunity to influence process improvements, strengthen documentation, and take ownership of meaningful cross-functional work that touches pricing, product implementation, and business execution.

• Lead and support new business pricing, quote review, and peer review activity for COLI/BOLI opportunities.
• Partner closely with sales, business leaders, and matrix partners to balance customer needs, business priorities, and sound actuarial decision-making.
• Help improve documentation, process ownership, and workflow execution in a team that values continuous improvement and strong operational discipline.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and new product implementation, including emerging work tied to the liquidity facility rider.
• Serve as a visible actuarial partner who can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and help drive execution across competing priorities.

Qualifications

• Actuarial pricing experience in life insurance, with direct COLI/BOLI experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with ALFA and strong core actuarial technical skills.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, make decisions, and take ownership in a role with broad scope and strategic exposure.
• Strong presence with business partners, especially in sales-facing or cross-functional environments.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
• FSA required. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
• Typically, five to seven years of actuarial experience.
• Experienced knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages.
• Basic level of organizational agility and conflict management.
• Proficient level of command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective, and accounting.
• Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning.

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.