Consultant, Third Party Risk Management

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 Third Party Risk Management team, within Enterprise Risk, helps protect the organization by providing independent, data-informed oversight of third-party relationships. We partner across the enterprise to strengthen risk visibility, governance, and decision-making throughout the third-party lifecycle.

At the Consultant level, you will help advance a more mature, data-driven risk program. This person will be tasked to connect business, risk, and technology partners to bring critical third-party data into the enterprise data lake, improve data quality, and translate complex information into meaningful insights for leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business units to identify third-party data gaps and define the critical data elements needed for risk oversight, reporting, and analytics.
• Lead data gap and quality analyses; help resolve issues affecting completeness, availability, consistency, and reliability.
• Drive end-to-end work to acquire, validate, and support ingestion of third-party data into the production data lake.
• Collaborate on the migration from legacy data sources, prioritizing data needs and enabling future-state reporting and analytics.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, metrics, and trend analyses that illuminate program health, emerging risks, and third-party concentrations.
• Convert complex data into clear, actionable insights that support proactive leadership decisions and risk mitigation.
• Serve as a trusted liaison among risk, business, data, and technology teams; influence partners to resolve dependencies and deliver shared outcomes.
• Establish business requirements, data definitions, control expectations, and governance practices for third-party risk information.
• Support continuous enhancement of executive reporting, key risk indicators, data lineage, and analytical capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Experience in third-party risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, audit, compliance, data governance, business analytics, or a closely related discipline.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving data requirements, data quality, reporting, process improvement, or technology implementation.
• Ability to analyze complex data, identify meaningful patterns and gaps, and communicate recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Technical proficiency in Python, SQL or relevant coding application
• Demonstrated ability to build productive relationships, influence without direct authority, and manage competing priorities in a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience with dashboards and data visualization tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms, is preferred.

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. The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus OH, 43215.

This position will be hired on a Success Flex basis. You will be required to come into the office, according to the department's current hybrid schedule.

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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 Consultant, you'll be responsible for…