As a team member in the Finance and Internal Audit department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor and so much more. 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.
Finance Consultant & Data Designer (Unicorn Role)
Are you a finance and data wizard with a knack for solving complex problems? Do you have a passion for the insurance industry and a desire to make a significant impact? We are seeking a Finance Consultant & Data Designer to join our dynamic team and be our unicorn in the world of finance and data.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Proficiency & Industry Knowledge: Utilize your expertise in SQL, Python, R, and data visualization tools like Power BI to manage and analyze data. Leverage your understanding of insurance products, actuarial practices, underwriting processes, and claims management to drive insights and innovation.
- Analytical Skills & Risk Assessment: Assess and manage risks using data-driven approaches. Interpret complex data sets to identify trends, patterns, and insights, and apply statistical methods to make informed decisions.
- Communication & Attention to Detail: Ensure data accuracy and integrity across systems. Communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively with other teams.
- Continuous Learning & Adaptability: Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science and technology. Adapt to new tools, methodologies, and industry changes to maintain a competitive edge.
- Drive Organizational Change & Strategy: Meet with key leaders from the business to solve complex problems. Gather business requirements and help implement change. Present key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Preferred:
- Experience working in finance and actuarial roles within the Property & Casualty Industry.
- Strong programming skills in SQL, Python, or R.
- Experience with Databricks.
- Familiarity with data visualization tools and big data technologies.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
- A big-picture thinker.
Why Join Us?
- Innovative Environment: Be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity and innovation.
- Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
- Impactful Work: Contribute to meaningful projects that drive the success of our business.
If you are a finance, actuarial, and data expert looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, we want to hear from you! Apply now and become the unicorn our team has been searching for.
This role can be staffed remotely and will be filled at the internal G5 payband.
Job Description Summary
Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.
As a Data Designer you’ll process, organize, structure or present data to make it meaningful for business decision making and to position data-intensive projects/programs for success. You’ll be an integral part of a project, program or team and perform a variety of tasks related to identifying business partners’ analytical needs and obtaining, collecting, organizing and interpreting data. You’ll perform analysis and interpret results, providing insights and recommendations. This may take the form of thematic maps, reports, charts, tables and other analytic visualization.
Key Responsibilities:
Evaluates information from multiple sources, provides recommendations, reconciles conflicts, cleans data into a consumable format and classifies the information into logical categories.
Uses moderate to complex visualization techniques and skills to present findings of data exploration exercises.
Maps the flow of data and the business processes and/or technical interfaces which would be created or impacted and recommends solutions/adaptations.
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Documents the source to target mappings for data integration and web services.
Ensures alignment with data quality and transformation rules and develops infrastructure and/or other tools to communicate mapping to relevant groups.
Identifies and documents the sources of existing and new data.
Works with enterprise partners to conduct complex data profiling using standardized tools.
Key contributor in the creation or reviews conceptual, logical and physical data models and determines the most appropriate method to represent the data for business consumption/use.
Performs data modeling across a variety of DBMS platforms and is capable of tuning the model for desired performance characteristics based on those specific technology platforms.
Proactively consults and provides recommendations and direction on data needs.
Manages data, performs analyses, interprets results, and provides insights and recommendations to internal clients
Creates thematic maps, reports, charts, tables, and other analytic visualization to support business needs
Ensures compliance with the Enterprise Data Governance policy and standards on information risk and data protection guidelines.
Recommends and executes changes in data analytics; including methodologies, practices, and tools.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director Data Leader.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, business, statistics, math, a related field or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science or a related field are a plus.
License/Certification/Designation: Certifications are not required but encouraged.
Experience: Five to eight years of relevant experience with data quality rules, data management organization/standards or practices. Experience in statistical analysis, interpreting results in determining data quality and fitness. Wide experience using data quality results to determine whether existing sources of data are enough for business needs. Experience with recommending alternate data sources and data modeling. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Data application and practices knowledge. Solid decision making, oral and written communication skills. Ability to influence, negotiate and set priorities needed.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
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 10/22/2024. 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. Smoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.
For NY residents please review the following state law information: Notice of Employee Rights, Protections, and Obligations LS740 (ny.gov) https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/02/ls740_1.pdf 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 Consultant, Data Designer : $101,000.00-$209,000.00 The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Data Designer : $112,000.00 - $168,000.00
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