Asset Liability Management Professional

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. 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.

This role requires a hybrid work schedule with 3-days onsite in Columbus, Ohio.
This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.  Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

Internal Compensation Grade: G5

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Job Description Summary

Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-and risk-based business outcomes? Nationwide has been using data to serve our members and drive business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce has a collaborative culture that delivers outstanding solutions and results. Our Risk professionals play a key role in transforming quantitative data analysis into meaningful insights that drive business results.

As a Professional on the Investment Risk Asset/Liability Management (ALM) Team, you will be an important contributor to the development of investment strategy and risk targets across the organization to help the company grow the funds necessary to serve our customers in their greatest times of need. You will leverage your investment and risk management expertise to evaluate asset classes through an ALM lens, ensuring alignment with risk, return, and liquidity objectives. You’ll be a subject matter expert on investment income forecasting and will lead the automation and modernization of our reporting ecosystem for the ALM team and contribute to the maintenance and enhancements of asset modeling to support pricing, ALM, Corporate Risk Model, along with capital forecasting. You will also aid investment risk and strategy recommendations to senior leadership focusing on impact to total return, investment income, volatility, and capital. Additionally, you will assist on additional investment risk and ALM-related research projects.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Shapes ALM strategies by analyzing investment portfolios, interest rate risks, and liquidity needs to optimize balance sheet performance.  

• Collaborates with investment teams to assess long-term asset allocation, evaluate long-term trends, and provide insights on investment risks and opportunities as they relate to ALM objectives.  

• Leads the Net Investment Income forecasting process for the Investment Risk-ALM team that includes, but not limited to, preparing and reviewing quarterly forecast assumptions (prepayments, rates, spreads, and investment pool strategies), preparing new money rate assumptions, and leading client-specific deliverables.  

• Leads the automation and modernization of legacy models for Net Investment Income forecasting by designing and implementing scalable solutions. This includes modernizing the reporting structures for client deliverables using Power BI/Tableau.  

• Monitors capital markets to build and update investment assumptions used in ALM tools and applications.  Develops and maintains assumptions, including the complex statistical analysis of historical data and trends. 

•  Maintains and enhances asset modeling to support pricing, ALM, Corporate Risk Model, and investment income and capital forecasting, such as Operating Plan, Strategic Plan, etc.  Utilizes deep knowledge of all types of investments on the balance sheet as well as maintenance of complex models of prepayments / cash flow risk, interest rate risk, credit risk [migration/defaults],