Actuarial Specialist, Surety

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.

Actuarial Specialist, Property & Casualty

Role Overview: The Specialist, Actuarial - P&C will primarily focus on the surety line of business. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on non-traditional lines and engage in portfolio management using simulations to assess risk and improve models.  Additional responsibilities include work supporting excess casualty transactional pricing and loss rating. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Surety Line of Business:

  • Conduct actuarial analyses and support portfolio management.

  • Use simulations to assess risk, develop assumptions, and improve models.

  • Present findings to underwriters and other stakeholders.

• General Actuarial Support:

  • Develop business relationships across multi-channel finance.

  • Assist with transactional pricing and loss rating.

  • Engage in data analysis.

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficiency in actuarial methodologies and data analysis.

• Strong communication skills for presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Python or R

Work Arrangements:

• It is highly preferred that this role will work on a hybrid schedule, with 2 days per week at one of our office locations in Columbus, OH, Des Moines, IA, or Scottsdale, AZ. This role will be staffed at the F4 internal pay band. 

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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 Specialist, you’ll gain a more thorough knowledge of our actuarial functions for our P&C products. You’ll also perform increasingly complex mathematical and quantitative actuarial analyses that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide to our customers.

This position has the opportunity to be a part of the P&C Actuarial Rotation Program, which will give you the potential opportunity to work on various actuarial, analytics, and risk management teams to learn and develop across different actuarial functions. Should you choose to participate in the program, you will participate in two to three rotations of two years each. Full program details will be provided to you upon your start date.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Continues to develop deeper knowledge of actuarial methodologies, allowing the ability to source and manipulate more complex data within standard requirements.

• Conducts analyses that adhere to actuarial standards by selecting appropriate data sources and making assumptions to develop recommendations. Notes and suggests potential resolution to any unreasonable results and reports to leader.

• 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.

• Adheres to assigned work schedule to ensure timely completion of individual tasks and group projects. Notifies leadership anticipating of any possible missed deadlines and possible impact.

• Performs peer reviews to increase collaboration, ensure quality work, and drive innovation.

• Continues to develop business relationships across PC multi-channel finance. Begin developing