Consultant, Intelligence – Annuity

Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Work schedule:

3 days in office, 2 days remote.

Work location:

Plaza One (downtown Columbus). This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

Are you a data driven problem solver, focused squarely on attaining business goals? If you can take initiative, use both your analytical and creative abilities to make sound decisions and have a desire to solve challenges, we want to hear from you! As a Consultant, you'll work on assignments reflecting a high degree of technical complexity and coordination to collect, build and communicate data and recommendations.

You'll perform statistical analyses, prepare recommendations and monitor the company's competitive position. You'll partner with enterprise resources to acquire market, industry and consumer insights relative to business unit.

• Retrieves and manipulates data, accountable for suitability and accuracy of data.
• Updates Competitive Intelligence and serves as subject matter authority for tools and reports; may be responsible for updating and validating complex coding in various applications and/or vendor software.
• Conducts analyses by selecting appropriate data sources and methods, makes assumptions, recognizes considerations and develops recommendations.
• May be asked to investigate hypotheses through additional research and analysis.
• Notes unreasonable results/non-optimal solutions, investigates, suggests alternative resolutions.
• Works on special assignments.
• May work on projects with little-to-no direction and develop project plans, requirements, timelines, deliverables, etc.
• May collaborate or lead competitive intelligence project teams.
• Communicates effectively with internal and external business partners in a variety of mediums.
• Expresses analytical findings and trains users on tools and processes.
• Uses relationships with business partners to complete assignments.
• Makes presentations to corporate and executive audiences.
• Participates in peer reviews.
• Reviews work of peers and has work reviewed by them.
• May assist with training new associates and business partners outside the unit on standard work procedures and processes.
• May participate in interview activities.
• Participates in ad hoc analyses.
• More complex work is reviewed.
• Applies data mining techniques to discover new relationships in the data.
• Participates in the project planning process.
• Evaluates and documents new techniques, methodologies and software to support research projects.
• Under supervision, develops project plans to support projects.
• May act as the lead for selected projects and manage project completion timelines and work of team.
• Participates on and leads interdisciplinary teams as assigned.
• Completes applicable testing of company and competitor rates that are available through competitive intelligence tools.
• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reports to Manager/Director; this is an individual contributor role.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, computer science, business, finance, mathematics, statistics, economics, management information systems or related field with a strong quantitative orientation preferred.
• License/Certification/Designation: SAS certification a plus. Insurance licenses or designations such as CPCU, ARM, CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, NASD, etc. also are a plus.
• Experience:
  
  Typically, eight to ten years demonstrated of experience…