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
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