Sr Analyst, Corporate Finance & Expense 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.

The Sr Analyst, Corporate Finance & Expense Management role is an opportunity to help modernize how Corporate Finance turns data into insight. This associate will support a centralized reporting environment across Corporate Finance and OCEO groups, helping strengthen professional reporting, improve how the business visualizes and interacts with data, and deliver more sophisticated analytics through Power BI and related tools.

This is a strong fit for a finance professional who enjoys blending technical reporting capability with business partnership. The role calls for someone who can take broad reporting needs, translate them into practical solutions, and present clear, decision-useful insight to stakeholders across the organization.

The position also offers broad exposure across Corporate Finance and the opportunity to help shape future reporting capabilities while building bench strength for continued growth within the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop effective Power BI dashboards, reports, and analytics that improve reporting capabilities across Corporate Finance.

• Translate business needs into practical, user-friendly reporting solutions that strengthen insight generation, data quality, and decision support.

• Build and maintain reporting processes, tools, and views that help the business better visualize, consume, and act on financial information.

• Support consolidated reporting across multiple Corporate Finance and OCEO groups and help elevate the sophistication and consistency of reporting outputs.

• Work with large and sometimes complex data sets to identify trends, surface meaningful insights, and improve how information is delivered to stakeholders.

• Partner effectively with finance and business stakeholders to understand reporting needs, gather requirements, and deliver solutions that are practical, intuitive, and actionable.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills, including experience building formulas, setting up models, and structuring analysis in a thoughtful, scalable way.

• Demonstrated experience with Power BI or Tableau, with the ability to create dashboards and reporting that drive clarity and decision-making.

• Experience using Power Query and working with large data sets; broader programming or technical skills are a plus.

• Strong finance acumen and the ability to connect technical reporting work to practical business and expense-management needs.

• Ability to communicate clearly, gather business requirements, and translate them into reporting outputs that are useful to non-technical stakeholders.

• A proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable approach, with interest in helping a growing team improve how Corporate Finance reporting is delivered and scaled over time.

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 SuccessFlex basis. You will be required to come into the office two days per week, according to the department's current schedule.

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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 a Senior Analyst, you'll conduct and document moderate to complex financial, budget and business-related analyses. In addition, you'll prepare forecasts and trends analyses to support financial projects and business operations, as well as participating in special financial and business-related studies.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Makes decisions in a timely manner within the context of own assignments; drives to complete objectives with an understanding of necessary achievements.

• Effectively communicates work output.

• Treats others with respect and shares his/her honest opinion in a thoughtful way.

• Asks the right questions to gain an understanding of the topic and attempts to get at root causes; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; shows ability to generate alternatives in response to requests from leaders.

• Supports changes being employed to move organization toward the use of new technologies or into new endeavors; offers to be part of new changes within the organization.

• Willing to try new methods and technologies that will impact and improve own work.

• Supports the changes being put forth by the organization; willing to accept and see the benefits of change.

• Works to build knowledge of organizational structure and products to drive superior results.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

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

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in finance, accounting, economics or a related field. Degree preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Pursuit of CPA or other related technical insurance designation desirable.

Experience: Typically, four or more years of related experience in finance, accounting, insurance or similar field. Prefer product or business unit specific experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Professional knowledge of statistical analysis, financial statement preparation, budget preparation and related business operations. Prefer professional familiarity with GAAP and statutory accounting practices and insurance/financial service business requirements. Verbal and written communication skills for internal and external contacts. Ability to interpret finance information. Ability to operate personal computer and related financial and business software. Ability to work in project and special studies teams.

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 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.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

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. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Sr Analyst, Financial Business : $62,500.00-$115,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Sr Analyst, Financial Business : $62,500.00 - $93,500.00