Director, Financial Reporting - P&C Controllership

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.

• Lead end-to-end P&C regulatory and statistical reporting, ensuring accurate, timely submissions and compliance with Nationwide policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Own financial/statutory reporting quality by identifying data and process risks, driving issue resolution, and coordinating audits and controls to protect data integrity.
• Serve as primary contact for regulators and bureaus, leading responses to data calls and inquiries and partnering across finance, controllership, legal, IT, rating, and business teams.
• Provide strategic direction for data and technology supporting reporting, prioritizing key IT/data initiatives and influencing upstream data providers to improve timeliness and quality.
• Lead a seasoned reporting team (five direct reports plus indirect reports), providing clear guidance, coaching, performance management, and development to strengthen capabilities and succession depth.
• Foster a strong team culture focused on knowledge-sharing, internal training, and continuous learning in P&C insurance reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, leveraging tools and new capabilities to streamline high-volume reporting processes, enhance controls, and reduce defects, rework, and fines.
• Communicate clearly with senior leadership, providing concise updates on risks, issues, and tradeoffs, and build strong relationships across P&C Controllership and the broader enterprise.
• Preference for candidates with P&C insurance and financial reporting experience and a proven track record as a strong people leader guiding high-performing, hard-working teams.

This is a hybrid role based in Columbus, Ohio, requiring on‑site presence at least two days per week or as needed to support business needs.

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 want to invest in yourself and thrive in an environment of innovation, problem solving, collaboration and learning? If you’re prepared to work in a technology-enabled, digitally-focused organization, where Controllership is a captivating and respected career, we want to hear from you!

As a Director, you'll be responsible for the success and execution of all functions associated with GAAP and statutory financial reporting, premium taxes, payroll taxes, and/or statistical and supplemental statutory reporting requirements. You'll lead a team of managers, associates and/or offshore contractors, directing all aspects of associate performance.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leads the progression of Nationwide's financial close and reporting process. Ensures the preparation, analysis, filing and review of federal, state and local GAAP and statutory financial statements and reports, premium taxes, payroll taxes, and/or statistical and supplemental statutory reporting requirements according to state and federal laws, regulations and/or instructions.

• Provides strategic direction over the development and design of new and enhanced systems and processes within the assigned area(s).

• Focuses on outstanding talent management and engagement within the organization. Responsible for associate management, including performance management, salary planning and administration, training and development, workflow and organizational planning and disciplinary actions.

• Develops the strategic direction of a team, including defining expertise and interaction with internal customers, regulators and auditors, developing metrics to measure effective and supervising the design of controls to manage regulatory changes and operational risk in a high-volume environment with complex and constantly evolving regulatory requirements. Works closely with executive leadership to influence overall department strategy.

• Coordinates the timely initiation of high dollar amounts of related tax and fee payments as required by the state and federal laws, regulations and instructions.

• Ensures the compilation and reporting of the department budget and/or overall Controllership budget while advising executive leadership on cost management initiatives. Influences across department to meet organizational expense initiatives.

• Advises and provides oversight across the enterprise on significant and unusual transactions and accounting guidance or regulatory requirement changes, ensuring proper end-to-end accounting and reporting while capturing all operational impacts.

• Directs the delivery of numerous analytics and reports presented to the Chief Accounting and Chief Financial Officers, as well as other key leaders.

• Directs the administration and settlement of federal, state and local financial and tax audits. Responds to and directs responses to requests and inquiries from external auditors, IRS, state departments and examiners, statistical bureaus, and/or other regulatory agencies on analytical inquiries, compliance and/or data quality/integrity matters.

• Maintains relationships with executives of offshore contractors, including assessing contract-related and performance-related metrics.

• Supervises data quality initiatives to ensure the accuracy of reported financial and statistical information.

• Represents officers/executives as assigned. May attend conferences or trade association meetings as Company representative.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Senior Director or Associate Vice President; Manages a team of 4 or more finance professionals.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate degree in business administration, accounting, finance, insurance or other relevant academic subject areas required.

License/Certification/Designation: CPA or relevant industry designation (e.g., CPCU, IIA, FLMI) preferred.

Experience: More than eight years in public accounting, equivalent industry experience or relevant insurance experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: GAAP and/or statutory accounting bases. Insurance regulatory requirements. Complex financial statement preparation including consolidation of companies/subsidiaries. Financial/statistical analysis. Principles of taxation and the related impact on financial statement preparation. Accounting and/or business operating systems. Project management concepts and techniques. Must possess strong organizational skills, be detail oriented, analytical, strategic and adaptable. Must have the ability to discover and solve problems, be operational improvement and control minded, and be able to direct the complete, accurate, efficient and timely completion of high volumes of work. Must have the ability to lead in team or project environment. Ability to direct the research, analysis, documentation and communication of legal/regulatory requirements, accounting policies, related financial statement impacts and financial data. Must have advanced verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to communicate professionally with business unit leadership and regulators. Must have the ability to operate and maintain efficient financial information networks, systems and software and to think critically through all phases of operational responsibilities and provide strategic thought leadership. Must be able to direct and train associates in assigned accounting and reporting and staff development.

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 Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment; extended and/or non-standard work hours as needed.

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.