Dani Freidus
Verified Expert in Finance
Finance Expert
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Toptal member since 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
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Industry Expertise
Other Expertise
Work Experience
Actuary, Founder
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.
Actuary, Senior Actuarial Analyst
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.
Consultant
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.
Education
Bachelor's Degree (Hons.) in Actuarial Science
Wits University - Johannesburg
Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science and Statistics
Wits University - Johannesburg
Certifications
Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa
Actuarial Society of South Africa
Skills
Finance
Financial Asset Impairment Models, Defined Benefit Valuations, Banking Provision Models, Financial Model Auditing, Asset Valuation, Liability Valuations, Data Analysis, Financial Modeling, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Financial Reporting, DCF Valuation, Three-statement Modeling, Forecasting, Cost Efficiency, Cost Management, Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Liability-backed Investments
Output Software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint
Industry Expertise
Damage Claims, Pensions, Financial Services, Insurance, Consumer Products, Banking & Finance, Asset Management
Geographic Expertise
South Africa, Africa, Nigeria, Namibia
Data & Analysis Software
Financial Data, SAS, R
Other
Payroll & Benefits, Analysis of Surplus, Modeling, IAS 19, Actuarial, Dashboards, Presentation Design, Tender, Liabilities, FAS 158, IFRS 9, Credit Modeling, Presentations, Template Development, Management Reports, Compensation Plans, Auditing, Business Development, Excel Modeling, Financials, Company Analysis, Manufacturing, Strategy, Budget Modeling, Financial Forecasting, Reporting, IFRS Financial Reporting, White Papers, Board Presentations, Financial Presentations, Executive Presentations, Financial Statements, Financial Advisement, Data Analytics, Statistics, Investments, Investment Strategy, Loan Valuation, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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