Steven Blake Email & Phone Number

Reigate

Reigate

London, United Kingdom

• Available for permanent / interim Chief Actuary or senior GI actuarial roles from Q2 2017

London, United Kingdom

• Assessed and reported on the Group's £8bn claims reserves.
• Designed and implemented Group's reserve reporting database to store and report on consistent information from all business units.
• Wrote the Group's Basis of Preparation guidance for calculating Solvency II technical provisions (SII TPs).
• Managed the calculation and reporting of the Group's SII TPs into business as usual.
• Worked closely with Financial Planning and Analysis Dept. to give insight into actuarial aspects of planning and quarterly results analysis.
• Liaised with external actuarial and non-actuarial teams (including PRA) covering audit, rating agency assessment, external reserving review, rights issue and Part VII transfer.

London, United Kingdom

• Worked closely with local Chief Actuaries to direct, challenge and report on general insurance actuarial work carried out in the Group's international subsidiaries.
• Overview of region's £5bn reserves and deep dives into specific complex and long-tail portfolios.
• Input into the region's business reviews and operational planning.
• Reponsible for the region's Solvency II preparation.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of twelve with responsibility for reserving, technical pricing and capital modelling of the £500m premium business.
• Transformed the reserving process giving enhanced management insight and integration with the business' quarterly reporting cycle.
• Assumed responsibility for reserving and capital modelling for the group's £330m London Market runof liabilities until the subsidiary's sale.
• Designed and managed the stochastic model that underpinned the company's Individual Capital Assessment (ICA) and Solvency II preparation.
• Managed the Reinsurance and Management Information functions.

London, United Kingdom

• Carried out pricing reviews of household, motor and commercial property portfolios using GLMs, credibility theory and geodemographic analysis
• Took control of and re-designed quarterly reserving process for personal, commercial and London Market business

London, United Kingdom

• Gained experience in product pricing, statutory valuation and business monitoring of life insurance business.
• Moved to Group Chief Actuary's Dept. providing general insurance reserving reviews, risk based capital allocations and actuarial input into acquisitions and disposals.