Sr. Analyst, Risk Analytics

As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit 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 and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey!

Job Description Summary
Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-based business outcomes? Nationwide has been using data to serve our members and drive business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce accepts an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. Our Risk Analytics professionals play a key role in transforming quantitative data analysis into meaningful insights that drive business results. Specifically, they serve as the conduit joining quantitative risk analysts to business partners.

As a Senior Analyst, you'll work on various risk analytics projects to help solve business problems. You'll begin building a foundation of business objectives and relationships. It's imperative that you have an understanding of quantitative analytics and that you are able to clearly articulate solutions.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops understanding of key business needs and assists with the development of the appropriate quantitative modeling solutions to these needs.
• Begins developing business relationships with departments or business functions to understand their teams' strategic goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Assists in building risk analytic solutions for business problems through collaborating, consulting, and driving expectations.
• Begins building industry standard methodologies around model assumptions, processes, and outputs.
• Learns to draft clear and concise summaries of findings and recommendations with support. Develops knowledge of common and useful data visualization techniques to convey information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Builds knowledge of sophisticated quantitative modeling processes and tools.
• Learns the key benefits and limitations of sophisticated modeling tools for business applications.
• Applies and learns the standard process of the governance of modeling tools across the organization.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Risk/Actuarial leader.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, mathematics or related subject area required.

License/Certification/Designation: Progress toward FCAS, FSA, CQF, CFA or similar preferred.

Experience: Typically, up to two years of related work experience in financial risk modeling or actuarial functions.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Familiarity with machine learning, stochastic processes, Monte Carlo simulations, sampling methods and other statistical techniques applicable to specialized risk modeling. Awareness of specialized risk models such as those used in hedging, economic scenario generation, catastrophe, credit risk, etc. Familiarity with risk management operations such as asset-liability management, portfolio risk assessment, hedging, etc. Proficient written and verbal communications skills. Basic proficiency with Excel and Powerpoint.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental, paid time off plus nine paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.