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.
This role connects across all Investment stakeholders, including Data Management and Reporting, Technology, Operations, Controllership, and Enterprise Data Governance. The associate will translate business needs into clear data requirements, strengthen ownership and controls, and help deliver practical improvements across investment systems and reporting processes.
The role requires deep curiosity, strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to influence partners through expertise, preparation, and collaboration.
Data Governance responsibilities:
Partner with business stakeholders and data owners to define data requirements, business terms, ownership, quality expectations, and downstream impacts.
Support governance processes including data-change intake, decision tracking, data dictionary management, CDE review, and governance committee preparation.
Lead or facilitate data-quality issue identification, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, and communication.
Support data-quality scorecards and measurement related to completeness, accuracy, timeliness, issue volume, source health, and resolution.
Coordinate with Technology and business partners on new and changing data elements, reference data, system enhancements, and reporting improvements.
Evaluate data and reporting impacts across a complex data ecosystem of platforms and business insight tools.
Support CDE, catalog, lineage, and metadata practices in partnership with Enterprise Data Governance.
Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and help build shared business understanding through training and knowledge sharing.
The role reflects the Investments Data Governance model and its focus on reliable data, clear accountability, transparent issue management, and quality controls embedded throughout the data lifecycle.
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
Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data and business intelligence solutions that are secure, reliable, accessible, and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.
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