Publication
The Statistical Edge: Enhance Your Metrics with the Actuarial Valuation Method
https://www.toptal.com/finance/valuation/actuarial-valuation
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Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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August 4, 2017
Dani is a qualified actuary (FASSA) and worked as a consultant for PwC and Alexander Forbes. He recently started his own actuarial firm which gives him the flexibility to freelance and to apply his actuarial skills to a wider range of problems. Dani has built models and reports for a number of the biggest banks and listed companies in South Africa.
Career Highlights
Actuary, Founder
Five2two Actuaries
Actuary, Senior Actuarial Analyst
Alexander Forbes
Consultant
PwC
Education Highlights
Bachelor's Degree (Hons.)
Wits University
Bachelor's Degree
Wits University
Certification Highlights
Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa
Actuarial Society of South Africa
Case Studies
Industry Expertise
Other Expertise
Work Experience
Actuary, Founder
2017 - PRESENT
Five2two Actuaries
- Built discounted cash flow models incorporating employee turnover, mortality, and other statistical features to value employee benefits.
- Developed standard valuation reports which are used to detail the results of valuations and analyses performed.
- Built a property valuation model to calculate the NPV and IRR for any property.
- Designed and stood up the company website.
Focus areas: Pensions, Actuarial, Business Development, Data Analysis, Compensation Plans
Actuary, Senior Actuarial Analyst
2015 - 2017
Alexander Forbes
- Valued and determined accounting disclosures for dozens of defined-benefit employee benefit schemes for companies' financial statements. Clients included many of the largest listed companies in South Africa.
- Valued over a hundred loss of support and loss of earnings claims of people involved in accidents.
- Built an automated membership data checking model.
- Initiated a department-wide efficiency drive to improve processes and standardize models.
- Created a model for a large financial services firm to assist them in changing the remuneration structure for their employees.
- Built a model for a large media company to launch an emergency savings fund for their employees.
Focus areas: Pensions, Actuarial, Data Analysis, Financial Modeling, Compensation Plans
Consultant
2014 - 2015
PwC
- Developed a custom model to calculate the future employee benefits costs for an African Defence Force.
- Rebuilt models for three of South Africa's largest banks to determine the provisions to be held for defaults against their loan books under IAS 39.
- Built a model to quantify the increase in pension costs resulting from a change to a remuneration structure for a large state-owned entity.
- Designed a number of custom technical reports detailing the findings of work performed.
- Audited discounted cash flow models, including capital project financial models in the renewable energy sector.
- Assisted in auditing a number of long and short-term insurers and pension funds.
- Analyzed data from a survey of insurance company executives throughout Africa.
- Helped compile a number of tenders to perform work for large state-owned enterprises.
Focus areas: Actuarial, Auditing, Insurance, Financial Modeling, Compensation Plans, Credit Modeling, Financial Model Auditing
Other Experience
Education
2012 - 2012
Bachelor's Degree (Hons.) in Actuarial Science
Wits University - Johannesburg
2009 - 2011
Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science and Statistics
Wits University - Johannesburg
Certifications
JANUARY 2017 - PRESENT
Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa
Actuarial Society of South Africa