Consultant, Gen AI Analytic Engineering - Internal Audit

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 G5

This role is part of the Office of Internal Audit’s Nationwide Technology and Data Analytics team and will report to the AVP, IT Internal Audit. This role will be responsible for the following areas:

Lead the center of excellence within Internal Audit for AI and Generative AI capabilities by exploring and developing AI models, crafting and leading the AI/Gen AI journey, training auditors in the use of AI tools, and other related activities. A strong technical acumen and strong partnership skills will be required.

Assist audit teams in identifying and managing emerging AI/Gen AI risks in processes, ensuring robust risk management and compliance frameworks are in place.

Provide leadership and support in the digital auditor development program, focusing on integrating AI/Gen AI technologies to enhance audit processes.

Partner with technology departments to explore, identify, and implement emerging AI technologies for Internal Audit.

Contribute and lead other various strategic initiatives and projects as needed.

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

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

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Job Description SummaryDo you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-based business outcomes? At Nationwide, our Analytic professionals are responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights and identifying business opportunities using scientific research methods, statistics, machine learning and data visualization techniques. They participate in all phases of the analytic lifecycle, from research design, data collection and data processing to model building, deployment and presentation of results.

Our industry-leading workforce uses an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to know more about you!

As a Consultant, you'll synthesize data architecture and data transformation skills to identify areas for process simplification and data integration opportunities, providing recommendations and solutions to the project team.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Understands data produced by business processes and can relate that specialized knowledge to solving business problems using analytic techniques. Identifies solution opportunities for enhancement of analytic data to support advanced analytics across the organization.

Plans and manages execution of work, participates in planning and delivers on commitments. Participates in the development of scope, risk/control matrix, project timelines, and assignments. Work may span more than one project or focus area.

Collaborates with leadership to develop analytic strategies for the business unit. Consults with business partners to understand, align and deliver analytic work

Builds applications that align to business needs and support objectives using statistical, database and/or general programming languages and tools.

Reviews analytic products and provides feedback and coaching to project team associates.

Builds and maintains relationships and serves as a trusted business advisor to clients, internal risk partners and other business partners. Creates partnerships across the enterprise to enhance organizational analytics capabilities.

Contributes to the continuous improvement of department processes through ongoing initiatives.

Designs and develops data sets. Understands how to create analytical data sets to meet the needs of scientists and researchers who are building statistical or machine learning models.

Explores existing and new data sources to evaluate the value of that data for future analytic efforts and prototype analytic data solutions. Successful exploratory work results in requirements for enhancement in both operational and analytic environments.

Crafts, builds, packages and communicates analytic work (synthesis) using appropriate statistical techniques to determine patterns to drive business outcomes and trends.

Understands and uses standards for implementation of analytic data asset builds into the Model Factory and knowledge of statistical techniques and advanced machine learning algorithms.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director, Analytic Engineering. This is an individual contributor role.

Typical Skills and Experience:

Education: Undergraduate studies required in computer science, mathematics, analytic, data science, and related degrees. Specialization in data and analytics preferred; SQL skills may be required. Master's degree is a plus.

License/Certification/Designation: None required

Experience: More than four years of demonstrated experience in role responsibilities.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven expertise (increasing with the level) is expected for query languages such as SQL, database architecture and data warehousing, reporting tools (e.g., Tableau), requirements development, cloud computing, UNIX/Linux terminal and/or shell scripting experience. Programming languages such as Python, R, SAS, RESTful API’s and endpoint, Spark or other distributed computing platforms, machine learning experience, data modeling and mining a plus. Experience in the financial services industry, especially in insurance, is desired. Enterprise data assets is desired.

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 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.

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.

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