[Hiring] Senior Actuarial Consultant - Personal Lines Pricing @Nationwide

Role Description

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Actuarial Consultant specializing in Personal Lines Pricing. This pivotal role involves owning pricing decisions for complex states and collaborating closely with business partners. This is a key member of our leadership team, driving a partnership-driven approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pricing decisions for complex states, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Serve as a technical expert in actuarial methodologies, conducting comprehensive analyses.
• Develop and implement cross-functional work plans, leading peer reviews to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Engage with business partners to assess and enhance technical abilities and communication skills.
• Acts as a technical expert of actuarial methodologies allowing the ability to source and manipulate data within standard requirements.
• Conducts complex analyses, adhering to actuarial standards, by selecting appropriate data sources, making assumptions, recognizing considerations, and developing recommendations.
• Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.
• Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the senior Actuarial leadership level.
• Develops cross-functional work plans and ensures accurate work product is delivered.
• Leads cross-functional peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.
• Builds business relationships and leads cross-functional communication with team members, customers, and business partners.
• Leads onboarding and training for new associates on standard work processes.
• Applies data mining techniques used to identify new relationships in data and make recommendations based on findings.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• ACAS is required; candidates with or working towards FCAS are preferred.
• Minimum of six years of actuarial experience, with a strong background in pricing and product line knowledge.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Snowflake, and Databricks is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage changing priorities effectively.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar background requiring modeling, programming or quantitative analysis.
• Generally attained ACAS and is working towards FCAS or recently attained FCAS.
• Generally, six or more years of actuarial experience.
• Detailed knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, analytical software and programming languages.
• Should have basic competencies including command skills, strategic agility, delegation, motivating others, business perspective and accounting.
• Should have highly-developed competencies in business understanding, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, and learning ability.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance.
• 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.