Maureen Westrick

About

Maureen Westrick ‘05 was born and primarily raised in Ohio (with a 3-year stint in Dallas, Texas). She chose Miami because it was a top-rated Ohio school that was large enough to provide a diverse array of opportunities and activities. “A visit to the campus sealed the deal for me—I felt at home and could not wait to return to Oxford.”

Accountancy had always lingered in Maureen’s mind as a potential major, but her top choices included nursing and mass communications. After listening to some “sage advice” from her dad, she took introductory accounting and other business classes. “It felt like the right path for me. I enjoyed the challenge of my business classes, and I saw a career with a multitude of opportunities based on a solid foundation of primarily accounting and finance.”

Being one of six children, Maureen took the chance to differentiate herself and claim the Miami experience as her very own. She was highly involved in groups and organizations while working several jobs (including in catering, dining halls, bookstore, and The Miami Student newspaper). She played multiple rec sports, but her all-time favorite was broomball. She was a radio DJ, volunteered at local schools tutoring students, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. She also served as Treasurer for Miami Memos and Alpha Kappa Psi, and studied abroad in Luxembourg in Fall of her junior year.

Maureen is a Fortune 100 finance and accounting executive with 15+ years of experience working for organizations spanning an array of industries. Her early career included an audit manager role at EY, with clients that included Fortune 100 and private companies. She joined Nationwide in 2012, taking various leadership roles across different teams, and is now an associate vice president over strategic partnerships within the Office of Strategy & Corporate Development. In this role, she leads a team responsible for reporting, compliance, technical research, and significant and unusual transactions, while serving as a strategic advisor for the Property and Casualty segment.

“What I love most about my current position is that it’s multifaceted. There are certain responsibilities that are aligned to traditional accounting roles—my team is responsible for audited financial statements, we perform analytics to understand financial results, etc. What’s most intriguing and exciting is how my team supports our business partners at Nationwide to deliver value to the enterprise. For example, my team is relied on heavily for mergers and acquisitions, disposing lines of business, accounting for telematics or other new and innovative products, creating joint ventures to grow business in new ways, utilizing captive companies to write new product offerings, etc.”

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