Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher

## Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher Apply locations:
Ohio:
United States - Remote time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
099032

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.

Nationwide’s Catastrophe Risk Modeling team serves as a specialized enterprise capability focused on understanding and quantifying catastrophe exposure across physical property portfolios and weather-related risk scenarios. The team combines catastrophe analytics, research, and data engineering to help the business better understand risk and support more informed decisions across the enterprise.
** Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher
** Reporting to the Director, Catastrophe Risk Modeling this role is a strong opportunity for a data-driven actuarial professional who enjoys working at the intersection of catastrophe research, analytics, and modern data engineering.

The Sr Consultant, Risk Researcher will help strengthen how catastrophe-related data is sourced, validated, transformed, and delivered so the team can produce high-quality analytics and more actionable insight for business partners.

This is a compelling fit for someone who likes hands-on analytical work, enjoys solving data quality and pipeline challenges, and wants to contribute to a team that turns complex risk data into meaningful business value.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Support catastrophe risk research and analytics tied to physical property, weather, and catastrophe exposure data.
* Build, enhance, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes that prepare data for research, modeling, and reporting use cases.
* Use tools such as SQL, Python, R, Databricks, and Snowflake to source, transform, validate, and manage large datasets.
* Support data validation and reporting workflows that help ensure outputs are accurate, consistent, and decision-useful.
* Contribute to process improvement and automation efforts that make catastrophe analytics more efficient, scalable, and impactful.
** Qualifications
* ** Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as data science, statistics, mathematics, actuarial science, computer science, engineering, finance, or a related discipline.
* ACAS level actuary credential required; additional progress toward FCAS credential preferred
* Previous professional experience in P&C pricing or reserving position (catastrophe modeling specific experience highly preferred)
* Strong SQL capability and working proficiency in Python and/or R.
* A naturally curious, detail-oriented approach, with the judgment to question results, investigate discrepancies, and improve the quality of outputs.

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

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, OH. However, applications from candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered.#LI-KD1
** Job Description Summary
** Do you have the desire to analyze data and perform groundbreaking research to drive business outcomes? Nationwide has been using data to serve our members and drive business outcomes for almost 100 years. Our industry-leading workforce adopts an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. Our Risk Analytics Researchers play a key role in harnessing the power of data to deliver business results.

Specifically, they are responsible for modeling sophisticated problems, discovering insights, and identifying business opportunities from data using a variety of techniques from mathematics, actuarial studies, statistics, data science, and financial engineering.
As a Senior Consultant, you’ll lead projects associated with the design, development and application of unique risk models. You’ll need an understanding of strategic business…