About the Role
Nationwide's Property and Casualty team is seeking a Credit & Political Risk professional to support the assessment and management of credit and political risks across a diverse portfolio. This role involves reviewing financial statements, analyzing counterparty and country risk, and developing risk models to support decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and interpret financial statements, cash flow forecasts, and operating metrics to assess counterparty creditworthiness.
- Evaluate corporate, sovereign, sub-sovereign, and project-related financial risks, including liquidity, leverage, and profitability.
- Conduct trend, peer, and stress analyses to identify emerging credit risks.
- Leverage credit and equity research to analyze industry trends, competitive landscape, and market dynamics.
- Assess country, sovereign, and political risks, including macroeconomic trends, fiscal and external vulnerabilities, regulatory frameworks, and geopolitical developments.
- Incorporate political risk considerations into credit assessments, ratings, and exposure recommendations.
- Monitor changes in political, economic, and regulatory environments and assess potential impacts on assigned exposures.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain credit risk and political risk models, scoring tools, and rating methodologies.
- Contribute to the design of stress testing, scenario analysis, and early warning indicators.
- Ensure models and frameworks are well-documented, robust, and aligned with internal risk governance standards.
- Perform ongoing monitoring of assigned credits, including covenant analysis, limit management, and review of financial updates.
- Prepare credit reviews, risk memos, and monitoring reports for internal committees and senior management.
- Support portfolio analytics, including concentration, correlation, and exposure analysis.
- Collaborate with underwriting, structuring, portfolio management, and senior risk leaders.
- Present risk assessments, conclusions, and recommendations clearly to credit committees and internal stakeholders.
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives to enhance risk analytics and decision-making tools.
Requirements
- 10+ years developing risk models, scorecards, or quantitative analytical tools.
- Strong foundation in financial statement analysis and credit evaluation.
- Experience working with risk models, scorecards, or quantitative analytical tools.
- Knowledge of sovereign, political, and emerging market risk factors.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Prior underwriting credit authority.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Experience with analytics tools, databases, or programming strongly preferred.
- This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.
- Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.
Skills
- Financial statement analysis
- Credit evaluation
- Risk modeling
- Scorecards
- Quantitative analytical tools
- Sovereign risk
- Political risk
- Emerging market risk factors
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Excel proficiency
- Analytics tools
- Databases
- Programming
Location
- Remote
- Lower 48 U.S. states
Work Type
- Remote
- Exempt
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- MBA or master’s degree in finance, economics or accounting a plus
- CPA/CFA a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $122,000.00-$214,000.00 (National Range)
- $122,000.00 - $182,000.00 (Expected Starting Range)
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision
- Life insurance
- Short and long term disability coverage
- Paid time off (minimum 18 days annually)
- 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
About the Company
- Nationwide is a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales.
- At Nationwide®, ‘on your side’ goes beyond just words.
- Customers and partners are at the center of everything we do.
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- 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.
