Kirk Stellar Email & Phone Number

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Developed, analyzed, and reported financially risky policy holder behavior to the Head of the Life Insurance Business, Head of Life Underwriting and other senior leaders• Developed strong relationships and proactively coordinated with internal and external auditors for annual Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and Model Audit Rule (MAR) financial statement testing • Ensured that external audit evidence requests were appropriate, and coordinated the timely delivery of thousands of pieces of policyholder records and administrative systems screenshots• Lead best practices meetings across the Life Insurance, Annuity, and Retirement business lines to create effective and consistent SOX/MAR audit delivery programs• Developed strict data governance practices to efficiently and accurately deliver state insurance regulator’s market conduct data requests for over one million Life insurance policies

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Developed SQL reports that fed into Excel reports to reduce errors and decrease end of month management reporting from 5 days to 1.5 days• Validated and analyzed claims data to support data needs for claims management, marketing, underwriting, actuarial and continuous improvement objectives• Used SQL data mining to detect fraud and develop controls to mitigate fraudulent activities

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Hired and managed high performing team of 18 professionals to perform Quality Assurance (QA) audits and functional training for 200+ Life Customer Service professionals• Designed and implement reporting solutions to analyze QA results to identify training, coaching, and process improvement opportunities• Developed and implement strict audit procedures to satisfy internal and external SOX audits and mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risk

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Maintained GAAP and Statutory valuation models to calculate and analyze over $4B in reserves for quarterly SEC financial statement filings• Created VBA macros to decrease reporting time by over 1 day per month• Analyzed and reported GAAP assumption changes for annual prospective unlocking

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Analyzed profitability models and competitor data to determine rates across the entire suite of individual life insurance products• Developed a VBA Excel model to integrate with existing actuarial software to develop an innovative chronic illness accelerated benefit rider• Presented product designs and pricing to management, documented efforts, and prepared actuarial rate filings for state regulators

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Managed profitability models to advise the President of the Life Insurance Business of the three-year impact of financial business decisions• Analyzed quarterly earnings and developed messaging for CFO’s analyst calls• Worked with Life, Annuity and Group Protection President, Life Product SVP and other leaders to develop presentations for investor and sales conventions• Led actuarial internship program, improving networking and adding a 9-week speaker series

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

Created product models for product development and oversaw IT and Quality Assurance testing of administration and illustration systems

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

- Reconciling Excel models ALFA software