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Cape Town Area, South Africa

Bespoke contracting and consulting work focusing on the financial services sector. Areas include SAM capital and investment strategy optimisation, administration system integration and insurance product development. With backgrounds in both actuarial work, software development and quantitative modeling, targeted and effective solutions are the sole objective.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

iBizValue is a specialised consultancy firm offering expert business valuation services to entrepreneurs and business executives of small to medium sized companies in a diligent and expedient manner.Our team comprises of skilled investment banking, corporate finance, fund management and actuarial professionals, who collectively contribute decades of experience to each business valuation opportunity.Our well-established industry network, together with our strong research and… Show more iBizValue is a specialised consultancy firm offering expert business valuation services to entrepreneurs and business executives of small to medium sized companies in a diligent and expedient manner.Our team comprises of skilled investment banking, corporate finance, fund management and actuarial professionals, who collectively contribute decades of experience to each business valuation opportunity.Our well-established industry network, together with our strong research and assessment capabilities, allow us to confidently deliver on each of our client mandates. Show less

Westlake, Cape Town

Responsibilities include heading up the software development team and oversight of the finance function. Play the roles of Public Officer and Head of the Risk Management Control Function to the Life Company. Responsibilities range from system architecture and design to product design and development to capital management.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Responsible for operational processes and governance at a team and Group level. Included coordination and prioritisation of projects as well as the development of commercial and legal contracts, governance structures, Group policy standards and risk frameworks for Group-wide market risks and investment programmes. Supported the Head of Market Risk in their management of the 6-person team.

Pinelands, Cape Town

Assisted with the separation of the PRM team into 3 operational areas through operating model setup and onboarding. Established the 4-person A&R function within BSM which interfaced with investment, actuarial, product and capital teams to perform analysis and build management reporting views for Board and Exco decision making.Played core role in developing the first Group-wide cash and capital forecasting tools to support Group decisions.

Pinelands, South African

Expanded the existing 2-person team (responsible for ALM risk reporting) to a 6-person team responsible for overseeing market, treasury and capital operations for the Group including day-to-day management, execution and management reporting. Played core role in development of a number of tools and systems designed to improve operational efficiency and robustness.

Pinelands, South Africa

Responsibilities included design and development of the asset-liability management systems and distributed platforms for managing Old Mutual's embedded guarantee risks. Developed in C#, CUDA, Scheme, Silverlight and .Net technologies such as WCF and WPF.Played role in establishing software and quantitative model architectures, systems and development practices described in a 2012 Industry review as “world-class” and “leading edge”.

Cape Town

Tutored various courses in statistics and actuarial science at a 1st, 2nd and 3rd year level.