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The hired associate must reside within 35 miles of the following location:

Columbus: One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus OH, 43215

Work schedule: 3 days in office, 2 days remote.

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 Summary

Do you thrive in using data-driven insights to influence high-stakes investment decisions? Are you energized by building tools that amplify investment teams' ability to navigate dynamic markets? If you're looking to apply your quantitative skills in an environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, this is the job for you!
As a Consultant, Investment Professional Quantitative Analyst, you'll deliver cutting-edge analytics solutions that directly impact portfolio performance and investment strategies across multiple asset classes. You will translate complex investment questions into streamlined, reusable tools and insights, helping to shape asset allocation, portfolio construction, and trading strategies. You'll find purpose in advancing automation and AI-enabled processes that enhance transparency, speed, and decision-making for our front-office teams.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Portfolio Managers and analysts to shape and test investment ideas by building and maintaining analytic views, signals, and tools that help source and prioritize opportunities.

• Support security selection and trade design through fair-value, relative-value, scenario, and contribution analysis across relevant asset classes and portfolios.

• Enhance sizing, portfolio construction, and ongoing monitoring by developing views, optimization frameworks, dashboards, and standard analytics packs that help investment teams evaluate diversification, concentration, and performance versus expectations.

• Conduct quantitative research on portfolio construction, asset allocation, and strategy questions, and package outputs into reusable decision-support tools rather than one-off analysis.

• Leverage the analytics/semantic layer and approved AI tools to make research, monitoring, and reporting faster, more consistent, and easier to reuse across teams and books.

• Collaborate with enterprise portfolio managers and front office teams to show how strategies and positions contribute to broader portfolio positioning and objectives.

• Build reusable research, monitoring, and portfolio analytics capabilities that can be embedded into recurring investment workflows, rather than producing only one-time analysis.

• Use approved AI-enabled tools where appropriate to accelerate research, signal generation, scenario design, monitoring, and reporting while maintaining transparency, human judgment, and clear documentation of assumptions and limitations.

• Partner with Data, Technology, and front office teams to move high-value analytics and model outputs from prototype work into stable, repeatable decision-support workflows.

• Contribute to an evolving research culture that values simple, usable, explainable models first, with iteration over time as business needs, data quality, and platform capabilities improve.

• Help define data requirements, validation checks, and monitoring standards for models, signals, and decision-support tools used across portfolios and asset classes.

• Support the development of shared analytics standards, research templates, and reusable model components that improve consistency across teams.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to leader of Investment Analytics. This is an individual contributor role..

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, or a related quantitative field preferred. Advanced degree and/or CFA preferred.

Experience: Typically, eight or more years' investment or quantitative experience supporting portfolio management, research, trading, or analytics in fixed income, structured products, multi-asset, or related markets. Experience applying AI/ML or AI-assisted workflow techniques to investment research, portfolio analytics, scenario analysis, or monitoring in a governed environment is preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:

Demonstrated strong grounding in portfolio analytics, statistics, econometrics, and quantitative research methods. Proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis, modeling, back testing, and scenario work; familiarity with platforms such as Databricks preferred. Experience translating investment questions into structured quantitative analyses, models, dashboards, and repeatable tools. Understanding of fixed income, credit, structured products, multi-asset allocation, or related investment domains, with flexibility to support different front office teams over time. Familiarity with AI-enabled research and workflow tools as transparent, human-in-the-loop decision-support capabilities. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain quantitative work clearly to PMs, analysts, and senior stakeholders. Knowledge of model documentation, explainability, monitoring, and governance expectations in an enterprise investment context. Discipline in research and coding, including version control, reproducibility, testing, and clear communication.

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 Human Resource Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates 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.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

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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 Investment Professional - Quantitative Analyst - 112341 : $119,000.00-$199,000.00The expected starting salary range for Investment Professional - Quantitative Analyst - 112341 : $119,000.00-$199,000.00