Sr Actuary - COLI Pricing

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Sr Actuary – COLI/BOLI Remote

Role Overview: This position serves as the Pricing Lead for the COLI/BOLI team at Nationwide, a leader in the industry for over 25 years and the #1 market share holder in both COLI and BOLI for 2024. You will act as the primary liaison between Actuarial and Sales, overseeing case pricing and contributing to the strategic and tactical direction to maintain our market-leading performance. This role includes managing two junior actuaries and a remote co-source.

Key Competencies: Our success is not only defined by the tasks we accomplish but also by how we work. While Finance has identified nine critical competencies, three are particularly vital for this role:

• Strategic Thinking: This role requires daily influence and implementation of our strategy through case pricing. Understanding competitive market dynamics and discerning what is most valuable to our customers is essential to creating value for them and Nationwide.

• Velocity: This role can be unexpectedly fast-paced. You will make numerous decisions under tight deadlines involving significant premium amounts. The ability to know when to stop analyzing based on the decision at hand is crucial.

• Influence: Managing through competing goals without complete decision authority is common. It is important to be recognized as a problem solver by business leaders while ensuring that risks are appropriately considered.

Additional Insights:

• Preferred Experience: Strong preference for candidates with COLI/BOLI pricing experience.

• Team Management: The role involves managing two junior actuaries and a remote co-source, providing mentorship and guidance.

• Sales Collaboration: Heavy emphasis on collaboration with the sales team, including managing workflow and addressing potential conflicts.

• Technology: Familiarity with Alfa and Excel is preferred.

This role will be staffed at the internal H5 pay band.  This role can be fully remote.

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Job Description Summary

Our Nationwide Financial 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 a Senior Actuary, you’ll be an expert, providing leadership, direction and oversight for the creation and performance of sophisticated actuarial techniques and procedures and risk analysis. You’ll handle research and direct others to ensure efficient, consistent and integrated data and analysis. We’ll count on you to provide a strategic vision for the team and deliver business recommendations that are crucial to the success of Nationwide and the protection we provide our customers. You’ll work independently and may directly or indirectly lead others.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides strategic direction and knowledge for the compilation, categorization and analysis of data and financial reporting and analysis.

• Constructs sophisticated testing tools and analyzes product calculations.

• Leads, provides expertise and builds strategies for pricing and implementation of products.

• Constructs, maintains and completes Actuarial, Projection & Valuation Models.

• Analyzes risks and reinsurance for lines of business.

• Establishes reserves and other valuation items under multiple accounting regimes (statutory, GAAP and tax) for products.

• Builds cohesive presentations, communication strategies and recommendations of actuarial findings that are suitable for technical and non-technical audiences at the OCFO leadership level.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Actuarial leader.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or similar background requiring modeling, programming, or quantitative analysis.

License/Certification/Designation: FSA required. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

Experience: Typically, at least eight years of actuarial experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Experienced knowledge of actuarial business functions, statistical methods of analysis, actuarial models, actuarial software and databases; knowledge of company operations, products, systems and actuarial methodologies. Knowledge of industry and regulatory practices is vital. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (including VBA within Access and Excel), analytical software (such as tableau) and programming languages. Proficient level of organizational agility, influencing skills, strategic agility, inspiring others, business perspective and accounting. Mastery level of perspective, problem solving, customer focus, dealing with ambiguity, drive for results, analysis, learning.

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

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible)

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.

We currently anticipate accepting applications until 04/21/2025. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 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.

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range.

The national salary range for Sr Actuary, NF : $134,000.00-$259,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Sr Actuary, NF : $145,000.00 - $219,000.00

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