As a team member in the Finance 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, Internal Audit, 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.

Internal Comp Grade is G3

This is a hybrid position located in Columbus Ohio and you will be required to come into the office two days per week.

This Financial Business Advisor role supports the financial planning and analysis for our Corporate Real Estate (CRE) and Aviation team. You will play a key role in CRE planning and will contribute significantly to monthly and quarterly financial planning and analysis processes. This role is also responsible for forecasting capital spend and projects, depreciation, and various related ad-hoc requests.

Finance Competencies

This role will regularly demonstrate our finance competencies, where you will lead through change, innovate to excel and adapt skillfully to change.

Lead

• Strategic Thinking: You'll drive initiatives that align with our mission and vision, asking insightful questions and communicating complex ideas clearly. Collaboration with key stakeholders will be essential to drive our strategic goals forward. You'll be curious, think critically, and strategically help our team establish a vision for our future.
• Courage: Facing challenges head-on and confronting the unknown will be part of your daily routine. You'll act with accountability, take calculated risks, and provide and receive feedback to foster a culture of growth and improvement.
• Connectivity: Building meaningful connections across the enterprise is crucial. You'll value diverse perspectives, share best practices, and strengthen relationships with new connections and cross-functional relationships.

Innovate

• Velocity: Making quick, data-driven decisions will be key to maximizing business impact. You'll be solution-oriented, adapting swiftly to evolving business needs and driving speed from strategy to action, helping to remove barriers for the team along the way.
• Curiosity: Embrace a mindset of curiosity by trying new things, asking questions, and seeking answers. Staying curious and learning beyond your immediate business area will help you make valuable connections and insights, and you’ll leverage these skills to help the team limit biases.
• Continuous Learning: You'll continuously seek opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills. Mentoring and sponsoring the growth of the team will be a priority. Exploring alternative methods and staying updated on industry trends will be part of your growth journey.

Adapt

• Influence: Your ability to shape opinions and outcomes will be vital. Through active listening and understanding others' perspectives, you'll provide ideas that drive results and foster collaboration, ultimately developing respect and trust across your team and business partners.
• Agility: Anticipating and managing change swiftly will be essential. You'll stay flexible amid ambiguity, think critically during volatility, and balance risks while acting as a catalyst for change. You’ll contribute to psychological safety on the team during periods of change.
• Presence: Displaying optimism, confidence, and composure in any situation will be key. You'll understand and regulate your reactions and responses, ensuring effective communication and emotional intelligence. Demonstrating effective communication and executive confidence will be paramount in this role.

Technical & Digital Skills

• Data Translation: You'll use and translate expense data into a concise story to drive conversations and decisions with business partners.
• Microsoft Suite Proficiency: You'll navigate the Microsoft suite of products, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and the Microsoft Power Platform, with ease.
• Preferred Tools & Upskilling: Experience with Hyperion Essbase / Smart View and Power BI is preferred but not required. You'll have opportunities to learn and master new tools, effectively upskilling yourself and contributing to the team's collective growth and expertise.

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

Job Description Summary

Do you have a big picture point of view as well as a keen eye for details? Our success depends on staying ahead of the curve, making sure our businesses and leaders are on top of financial trends and changes. If you are a highly skilled business professional, who can develop and communicate financial information and forecasts, we want to hear from you!

As an Advisor, you'll provide financial consultation, planning and analysis for a major business operations (state, product, business unit, etc.). This includes coordinating the development of operational forecasts and budgets and reporting on financial income, loss and expense measures. You'll serve as a key member of leadership team.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Makes effective decisions in a timely manner within the context of own objectives with a view to seeking opportunities outside normal objective boundaries; seeks to understand how decisions can have an effect on other areas.

• Searches for ways to make existing processes more efficient while driving quality outcomes

• Communicates a logical view of own work streams effectively, in a way that helps others understand and feel how business outcomes will be different as a result of the project/decision; seeks to develop business options into recommendations

• Helps others to think about their work from a different angle; brings insights to team members based on expertise in areas they support.

• Asks the right questions to gain an understanding of the topic and attempts to get at root problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; shows ability to generate and evaluate alternatives

• Supports changes being employed to move organization toward the use of new technologies or into new endeavors; seeks to influence team members to understand and accept changes; offers to be part of the new changes within the organization.

• Keeps informed of new methods and technologies that will affect and improve own work and the work of team members; advocates for these new ideas that will move the team forward.

• Able to recognize team members' emotions around change; willing to modulate your own response as well as help others on the team to accept changes with a positive outlook.

• Works to build knowledge of organizational structure and products to drive superior results; shares knowledge with team members and encourages others to branch out of their organizational silo.

May perform other responsibilities assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to the Director/Officer. This is an individual contributor role.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in finance, economics, accounting or statistics; advanced degree in financial field is desirable.

License/Certification/Designation: CPA preferred.

Experience: Typically, eight or more years financial experience including financial analysis, planning, forecasting, actuarial or auditing. Insurance industry background desirable. Prefer at least three years project leadership, management or supervisor experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: In-depth knowledge of statistical/financial analysis, financial statement and budget preparation. Knowledge of GAAP and statutory accounting practices and insurance/financial services business requirements. Project management concepts and techniques. Prefer familiarity with specific state, product or business unit operations.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal working conditions.

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.

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.