I am a life insurance actuary with experience of reporting, capital management, economic capital and Enterprise Risk Management. I have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Summary
Work experience
May 2014 - Present
Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
Aug 2010 - Jun 2013
Contractor
DAL Actuarial Services
Standard Life, Edinburgh (Sep 2012 - Jan 2013)
- Interim Solvency II IMAP Project Lead
- Managing the delivery of the Solvency II Internal Model application
Standard Life, Edinburgh (Aug 2011 - Jun 2012, Jan 2013 - Feb 2013)
- Solvency II Group SCR Oversight Project Lead
- Solvency II methodology technical expert - second line of defence oversight
- Economic Capital and Enterprise Risk Management
LV=, Bournemouth (Aug 2010 - Aug 2011)
- Peak 1 valuation and IFRS reporting for life protection and health business
- Substantial model developments using Algo Financial Modeler (formerly VIPitech)
Aug 2007 - Aug 2010
Assistant Actuarial Manager
Aviva Joint Venture with RBS
ICA / Solvency II
- Substantial development of process and implementation of latest methods
- Completion of QIS4 and QIS5 for Solvency II
- Preparation of Board reports
Other Reporting
- Completion of FSA Returns
- Compliance with INSPRU
- Preparation of Financial Condition Reports
- MCEV / IFRS reporting
- Management of audit relationship
Other
- Experience analysis and assumption setting
Soft Skills
- Work Based Skills assessments
- Mentoring trainees
- Off-shoring of processes to India
Jun 2003 - Aug 2007
Actuarial Trainee
Norwich Union Life
Capital Management
- Setting up of capital raising deals (such as TDSL reinsurance and securitisation)
- Internal Rate of Return reporting
UK Life Non-Profit Reporting
- Prophet regression testing and basic developments
- Significant spreadsheet developments to speed up reporting
May 2002 - Jun 2003
Underwriting Analyst
UKI Partnerships
Insurance Products team
- IBNR reporting
- Experimentation with pricing using GLM methods
- Significant development of processes to reduce time and increase functionality
Skills
Report writing
Production of actuarial reports, such as:
Financial Condition Reports and Valuation Reports
Solvency II methodology proposals
ICA reports and documents on Solvency II and QIS results
Experience analyses
My reports are clear, visually appealing and concise and are not swamped in caveats and jargon. An example of how I think about report writing can be found in the following article bit.ly/RPbqA3.
Language skills
Spoken and written French
Algo Financial Modeler
Presentation skills
Experience of presenting technical subjects to technical and non-technical audiences, such as:
Solvency II (to actuaries, accountants and project managers)
MCEV theory and techniques (to actuaries and accountants)
Life insurance (to Actuarial Sciences students at the University of East Anglia)
Life as an actuary (to A-level students)
Prophet
Substantial experience of using and interpreting Prophet models plus some development experience
Microsoft Excel incl Visual Basic
Substantial experience of designing robust and logical spreadsheet solutions for actuarial problems
Education
1997 - 2001
BSc (1st class)
The University of Birmingham
This included a year spent studying at university in Lyon, France on the Erasmus scheme
