Actuarial Senior Associate - P&C Reserving (Remote)

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Actuarial Senior Associate - Reserving

The General Liability and Umbrella Reserving team sits within Nationwide’s P&C Commercial Lines and NWAG organization and plays a critical role in supporting profitable growth and long‑term financial strength across the enterprise. This team is responsible for establishing and monitoring loss and loss adjustment expense reserves for General Liability and Umbrella products across multiple segments and distribution channels, including Nationwide Agribusiness (NWAG).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, execution, and communication of reserve analyses for General Liability and Umbrella lines, including quarterly and ad hoc studies at the line, segment, and program levels.
• Develop and apply advanced actuarial methodologies (e.g., stochastic reserving, frequency-severity modeling, tail factor and trend analyses, diagnostic tools) to assess reserve adequacy and volatility.
• Translate technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for leaders in Commercial Lines, NWAG, Claims, and Finance, highlighting key drivers, risks, and alternative scenarios.
• Partner with Pricing, Underwriting, and Product teams to ensure strong connectivity between reserving insights, rate adequacy, and underwriting strategies for GL and Umbrella.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
• ACAS credential, with progress toward FCAS (near-associate level candidates with relevant experience will be taken into consideration)
• Strong knowledge of P&C actuarial reserving techniques (e.g., General Liability, Umbrella, Excess).
• Demonstrated experience with triangular reserving methods
• Proficiency with actuarial and data tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, R, Python, SAS, or similar) and an interest in automation, reproducibility, and visualization.

This role is ideal for an actuarial professional who enjoys deep technical work, influencing business decisions through insight, and working in a collaborative environment that spans the P&C enterprise.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

  

This position can be staffed remotely for potential applicants with critical industry skills and relevant experience.

Internal Compensation Grade: G5

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Job Description Summary

Our Property and Casualty (P&C) Actuarial team members have opportunities to use state-of-the-art tools, are encouraged to innovate and learn to master actuarial methodologies. If this sounds like a place you could thrive, then we want to know more about you!

As an Actuarial Sr Consultant, you’ll need to have detailed familiarity with business operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies. We’ll count on you to be adept at complex actuarial techniques and work independently to combine advanced actuarial and business knowledge to provide high-level analysis. Additionally, you’ll have expertise to provide consultation and recommendations on deliverables and maintain detailed documentation of actuarial models and analyses. You’ll work independently and may lead others.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• 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. Resolves unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions using experience and professional judgment. Begins using results to influence decisions at a higher level.

• Accurately documents assumptions, methods, sources, and considerations in an organized fashion.

• Prepares and presents actuarial findings and documents that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the senior Actuarial leadership level. May