Experience

PGIM Ireland

• Ireland
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director, Actuary

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  Working for the Capabilities team in the Projections Centre of Excellence. Lead a team of two who are responsible for managing the model redesign process for the Individual Life Insurance business. Managing the project requires interaction with a number of stakeholders across Finance, Modelling, Systems and model users in a matrix environment. Responsible for Deterministic Projection Capabilities preparations for ILI, LTC & EDBS business units.

• Associate Actuary

  • Jan 2018 - Nov 2018

  Working for the Capabilities team in the Projections Centre of Excellence. Led a team of two who managed the Annuities Forecast Redesign project. Process was overhauled and moved from Excel/Alfa to GGY, creating efficiencies in the process and enabling the use of integrated enterprise infrastructure to create a more controlled production environment. Managing project required interaction with a number of stakeholders across Finance, Modelling, Systems and model users in a matrix environment.

• Associate Actuary

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

  Continued role in the Capital Management team following promotion. Assumed increased responsibility for capital reporting, forecasting and sensitivity analysis for the Annuities Valuation department.

• Senior Actuarial Associate

  • Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

  Working as part of the Prudential Annuities Capital Management team. Role involves the calculation of capital requirements and performance of capital forecasts for statutory and internal capital methodologies.

• Senior Actuarial Associate

  • Sep 2015 - May 2016

  Continued role with Prudential Annuities Pricing and Risk Based Design team following promotion and move back to Letterkenny. Work focused mainly on pricing a new product for Australia, which required building a model in Matlab to align with Australian reserving & capital requirements (similar conceptually to Solvency II).

• Graduate Actuary

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2015

  Working for the Prudential Annuities Pricing and Risk Based Design team. Role involves the product development and pricing of innovative variable annuities products for developing markets in the Far East. Spent a year of this period based in the US in Shelton, Connecticut.

• Part-time Intern

  • Sep 2012 - May 2013

  Part-time intern working remotely for GBTS Vendor Governance Office while in final year of university.



Prudential Financial

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Summer intern in the GBTS Vendor Governance Office as part of the Ireland-US Council Scholarship programme. Summer intern in the GBTS Vendor Governance Office as part of the Ireland-US Council Scholarship programme.



Aviva Europe

• Dublin, Ireland

• Placement Student - Underwriting, Product and Pricing

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2012

  Full-time placement as a member of the Pricing team of the Underwriting, Product and Pricing department of Aviva Europe. Role involved development and pricing of products for European businesses (mostly Italy, Turkey, Poland & Russia) using Solvency II, with some exposure to Solvency I. Full-time placement as a member of the Pricing team of the Underwriting, Product and Pricing department of Aviva Europe. Role involved development and pricing of products for European businesses (mostly Italy, Turkey, Poland & Russia) using Solvency II, with some exposure to Solvency I.