Actuarial Specialist, Surety

Actuarial Specialist, Property & Casualty

The Specialist, Actuarial – P&C will focus on the surety line of business, working on non-traditional lines and engaging in portfolio management using simulations to assess risk and improve models. Additional responsibilities include supporting excess casualty transactional pricing and loss rating.

• 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.
• 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 relationships in other areas of finance to gain business acumen.
• Assists with onboarding and training new associates on standard work processes.
• Uses data mining techniques to identify new relationships in data. Gains understanding and the ability to build models in different software packages. Explores the use of new software packages. Has basic knowledge of predictive modeling.

• 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.

• Experience with Python or R.

• 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.

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 and 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.

Reports to an Actuarial, Analytics, or Risk Management leader.

Education:

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

Generally, has passed four or more actuarial exams and is actively enrolled into the Actuarial Student Program. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONWIDE PC INSURANCE COMPANY ACTUARIAL STUDENT PROGRAM FOR ADDITIONAL…