[Hiring] AVP, Risk and Analytics @Nationwide

Role Description

Do you enjoy using quantitative analysis to understand complex financial risks and help shape business outcomes? In this Specialty Finance role, you can connect credit and portfolio insights with product decisions that support disciplined growth. If you thrive in an environment where you can improve risk decisions and risk-adjusted outcomes, we’d like to hear from you!

As AVP, Risk and Analytics, Specialty Finance, you will lead risk, analytics, and reinsurance for the Specialty Finance business. You will establish and govern the frameworks, models, processes, and management reporting that underpin product risk/return evaluation, product structuring, portfolio and capital management, reinsurance strategy and execution, and the related accounting and reserving outcomes—driving disciplined risk-adjusted performance aligned to enterprise capital objectives.

You will partner closely with other leaders and senior stakeholders across the company to ensure that:

• Risks are identified and quantified appropriately
• Products and portfolios are modeled and monitored with rigor
• Reinsurance is structured and placed effectively
• Results are booked, reserved, and operated in line with Nationwide’s risk appetite, limits, and financial objectives

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
• Graduate degree (e.g., MBA, MS in Finance, Financial Engineering, Applied Statistics, or similar) preferred
• Professional credentials such as FSA, FCAS, CFA, FRM, PRM, or CPA strongly preferred

Requirements

• Typically, 10 or more years of experience in insurance, banking, asset management, or specialty finance
• Significant exposure to risk analytics and capital modeling, operating-model and process design for complex financial products, and structured credit, specialty finance, or complex re/insurance transactions
• Five or more years of people leadership experience
• Deep understanding of credit, market, and liquidity risk as applied to specialty finance, structured products, or complex re/insurance structures
• Strong fluency in risk and financial metrics, including capital, return on capital, and risk‑adjusted performance measures
• Proven ability to translate complex models and structures into clear financial, reinsurance, and operational requirements for Finance, Controllership, Reserving, Reinsurance, Technology, and Operations
• Proven advanced analytical and problem‑solving skills, including comfort with data, modeling tools, and quantitative reasoning
• Excellent communication and influence skills, with the ability to challenge and collaborate effectively with senior executives, technical experts, reinsurers, and external partners
• Strong leadership capabilities, including talent development, prioritization, and execution in a fast‑moving, entrepreneurial environment

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