Senior Investment Analyst - Structured Products - REMOTE

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.

As a Senior Investment Analyst in our Specialty Finance team, you will play a key role in identifying and analyzing structured credit risk aspects of these solutions. You will analyze collateral cash‑flow, credit enhancement mechanics, trigger frameworks, and scenario‑based stress outcomes, and work closely with the team to design and structure transactions effectively. Collaborating with structured credit experts across the investment teams is an important part of the role. You will also work closely with external partners, and will play a part in establishing, maintaining, and overseeing underwriting and operating manuals and guidelines.

Reports to Structured Credit Team Lead - Specialty Finance

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

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Job Description Summary

Do you have the desire to grow a business and play a critical role in shaping business outcomes? Nationwide has been serving our members and driving business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce thrives in an agile work environment and a collaborative culture and delivers outstanding solutions and results. Our Investment and Risk professionals play a key role in transforming quantitative data analysis into meaningful insights that drive business results.

Nationwide Specialty Finance employs a research-driven, team-oriented, and results-focused approach to create and manage a wide array of innovative specialty finance insurance solutions like collateral protection, residual value, and portfolio insurance. Research and analytics are a critical part of evaluating and pricing these insurance solutions. As a Senior Investment Analyst on our Specialty Finance team, you will be responsible for assisting leaders and other senior analysts in identifying and analyzing risk aspects of these solutions and working with the team to structure these well. Collaborating with experts across the investment teams is an important part of the role. You will also work closely with external partners, and will play a supporting role in the establishment, maintenance, and application of underwriting / operating guidelines.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:  

• Help drive analysis for innovative specialty finance solutions, establishing methodologies for evaluation of risk and return, ensuring procedures are being followed, bridging traditional asset-oriented approaches with product- focused views. 

• Identifies risk and return drivers, develops and models forward-looking scenarios, analyzes relative value, and provides recommendations for pricing of specialty finance solution products.  

• Communicates analysis and recommendations through written reports, presentations, conversations, and meetings with internal and external partners. 

• Helps in designing, implementing, and monitoring underwriting and operating manuals for the specialty finance venture.  Works closely with internal and external partners to incorporate input.  

• Build relationships with internal and external partners to identify and assess new product opportunities. 

• Interfaces with accounting, legal, regulatory, and rating agency teams to structure specialty finance products in an effective and efficient manner. 

• Helps design and implement performance and risk measurement tools and reporting for the specialty finance venture.  

• Monitors, reviews, and evaluates industry, economic, and regulatory trends that impact specialty finance products. 

• Contributes to enhancement of the team's overall approach to evaluating and managing specialty finance opportunities, including evaluation framework, underwriting guidelines, and ongoing management.  

• Identifies innovative approaches to managing specialty finance products.  

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.  
 
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