Jia Hui Poh
Financial Risk Management Senior Associate at PwC South East Asia Consulting- Claim this Profile
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Chinese (Simplified) Native or bilingual proficiency
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Korean Elementary proficiency
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Andrew ANG
I would like to recommend Jia Hui as a candidate for a position with your organization. In her position as our Business Development Executive intern, She was employed in our office from June 2017 – August 2017. Jia hui did an excellent job in this position and was an asset to our organization during her tenure with the office. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently, and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner. Jia Hui was always willing to offer her assistance and has an excellent rapport with the many constituents served by our office including our clients, employers, and other professional organizations. She would be an asset to any employer and I recommend her for her any endeavor she chooses to pursue. In fact, in her spare time she also volunteers her time for some pro bono work. She assisted us to compile a book meant to benefit vulnerable people like the needy old folks. Well done Jia Hui, please keep going and keep your chin up always. Everyone in the office miss you a lot.
Andrew ANG
I would like to recommend Jia Hui as a candidate for a position with your organization. In her position as our Business Development Executive intern, She was employed in our office from June 2017 – August 2017. Jia hui did an excellent job in this position and was an asset to our organization during her tenure with the office. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently, and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner. Jia Hui was always willing to offer her assistance and has an excellent rapport with the many constituents served by our office including our clients, employers, and other professional organizations. She would be an asset to any employer and I recommend her for her any endeavor she chooses to pursue. In fact, in her spare time she also volunteers her time for some pro bono work. She assisted us to compile a book meant to benefit vulnerable people like the needy old folks. Well done Jia Hui, please keep going and keep your chin up always. Everyone in the office miss you a lot.
Andrew ANG
I would like to recommend Jia Hui as a candidate for a position with your organization. In her position as our Business Development Executive intern, She was employed in our office from June 2017 – August 2017. Jia hui did an excellent job in this position and was an asset to our organization during her tenure with the office. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently, and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner. Jia Hui was always willing to offer her assistance and has an excellent rapport with the many constituents served by our office including our clients, employers, and other professional organizations. She would be an asset to any employer and I recommend her for her any endeavor she chooses to pursue. In fact, in her spare time she also volunteers her time for some pro bono work. She assisted us to compile a book meant to benefit vulnerable people like the needy old folks. Well done Jia Hui, please keep going and keep your chin up always. Everyone in the office miss you a lot.
Andrew ANG
I would like to recommend Jia Hui as a candidate for a position with your organization. In her position as our Business Development Executive intern, She was employed in our office from June 2017 – August 2017. Jia hui did an excellent job in this position and was an asset to our organization during her tenure with the office. She has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organized, can work independently, and is able to effectively multi-task to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner. Jia Hui was always willing to offer her assistance and has an excellent rapport with the many constituents served by our office including our clients, employers, and other professional organizations. She would be an asset to any employer and I recommend her for her any endeavor she chooses to pursue. In fact, in her spare time she also volunteers her time for some pro bono work. She assisted us to compile a book meant to benefit vulnerable people like the needy old folks. Well done Jia Hui, please keep going and keep your chin up always. Everyone in the office miss you a lot.
Credentials
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Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
GARP FRM ProgramFeb, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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PwC South East Asia Consulting
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Singapore
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Risk Management Senior Associate
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Jul 2021 - Present
Actuarial secondment - Global reinsurer• Supported actuarial reporting activities across Asia-Pacific, including reserving team’s quarterly closing reporting, IFRS 17 transition and ad-hoc process enhancements, achieving operational efficiency and effectiveness, and technical analyses such as biennial risk margin studies and portfolio valuationsIFRS 4 Audits - General and Life• Supported insurance audits through the review of model changes and the assessment and reperformance of short-term reserves• Conducted sensitivity tests on claim triangles and resulting provisions, and built a template to independently calculate a portfolio’s provision for adverse deviation using the mack methodIFRS 9 Audits and Validation• Supported several IFRS 9 review for banks and insurers, from understanding and cleansing data received, to assessing their models, methodology, assumptions and credit provisions• Experienced in rebuilding the client’s models and conducting independent assessments/reperformance of IFRS 9 ECL components and provisions in line with industry best practicesInternal Credit Rating (ICR) Process Review• Spearheaded the review of an insurer’s ICR governance and processes in relation to MAS Notice 133, commenting on their adequacy and effectiveness, and provided recommendations based on findingsInternal Business Development• Ongoing support provided to PwC's Asia Pacific insurance strategy, including engaging with territories to determine collaboration opportunities across the network, migrating dashboards into Salesforce, and refreshing marketing assets• Built self-updating dashboards and personalised reports using Google Apps Scripts and Sheets, analysing HR recruitment process, sourcing channels and vacanciesOthers• Conferred the SEAC Values Award in April 2022 and August 2022 for creating a distinctive impact in relation to the PwC values of Work Together and Make A Difference respectivelyTools: Excel, Python, SQL, SAS, ResQ, SAP BOs, OMEGA
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Financial Risk Management Associate
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Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
IFRS 17 End-to-End Implementation Project (Global P&C insurer)(1) Actuarial Modelling• Assessed the eligibility of (re)insurance portfolios for the Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) treatment• Spearheaded an as-is process mapping exercise and proposed enhancements to their current reserving process/model to be IFRS 17-compliant• Conducted initial and detailed financial statement impact assessments, assessing transition and year-on-year impacts• Assisted with actuarial technical papers development(2) Project Management• Assisted with project coordination for the regional head office, its regional units and multiple workstreams, and liaised with key external/internal stakeholders on a regular basis• Performed detailed dependency planning, managed timelines and raised risks/issues on a timely basis, using different project planning tools (e.g. Project)IFRS 17 Implementation Project (Vendor implementation for a P&C insurer)• Prepared workshop material, based on insurer's existing documentation and understanding of the insurer• Drafted and polished a design requirements document, detailing business and functional design requirements for vendor implementationIFRS 4/MFRS 4 Year-End Audit• Supported audits through the review and reperformance of short-term reserves, ECL and RBC2 requirements, and sharing of findings with external/internal counterpartsRWA Insurance Regulations Assessment• Assisted the assessment of RBC2 capital requirements against that of Solvency II in order to establish equivalence under EIOPA guidance for a large bank based in SingaporePwC's Asia Pacific IFRS 17 collaborations • Supporting PwC’s Finance Transformation internal and external marketing initiatives across the Asia Pacific region, including marketing of software, building and maintaining dashboards to track opportunities, driving collaboration and planning of resources• Supported the development and publishing of APAC IFRS 17 Health Check surveys in 2020 and 2021
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AXIS (AXIS Capital)
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Bermuda
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Catastrophe Modelling Intern
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Feb 2019 - May 2019
Catastrophe Modelling Support• Simulated and modelled clients' expected losses using COMPASS and CATRADER, considering their policy limits, historical experiences and perils• Assisted with the pricing of policies based on the firm’s past experiences and results generated• Conducted aggregate OEP runs in RiskLink using aggregated values when modelling files were not provided• Prepared year-on-year comparisons for clients' past premiums, exposures, OEP curvesProject Support - Cedant Analysis (RMS vs. AIR)• Assisted with the comparison of RMS and AIR modelling curves and generated a report to explain the differences in the OEP curves produced by the different modellers, given the same portfolio• Assisted with the recommendations on how pricing for future similar programs could be done on just AIR (compared to the current approach of weighting)• Extracted the expected losses for significant historical catastrophe events from CATRADER, based on the modelling files provided by the cedantsAd-hoc • Prepared an intern's manual, detailing day-to-day work processes, for incoming interns
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PwC South East Asia Consulting
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Singapore
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Risk Management Intern
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May 2018 - Aug 2018
IFRS 9 Impairment Support - Model Development Project• Analysed the results from different models and picked the top models• Documented the methodology and results and updated slide decks to present both methodology and results to the clientIFRS 9 Validation Projects• Conducted independent evaluation of IFRS 9 impairment models of financial instruments, covering PD, LGD, EAD and forward-looking forecasting model development, with a focus on staging criteria assessment for Retail and Corporate portfolios• Worked closely with superiors to ensure that the validations are completed within the stipulated deadline• Picked up SAS programming skills to write codes and macros to generate data sets and perform further analysis wherever requiredPost-Internship• Assigned to be a PwC ambassador for the PwC Campus Booth in NTU
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Business Development Intern
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May 2017 - Aug 2017
• Awarded the "Best Intern" award for her performance• Developed marketing materials for company events• Re-branded solutions by designing a new company brochure, highlighting value proposition and competitive advantages• Assisted superiors with preferred partnership exploration• Connected with partners and clients to optimise their experience • Awarded the "Best Intern" award for her performance• Developed marketing materials for company events• Re-branded solutions by designing a new company brochure, highlighting value proposition and competitive advantages• Assisted superiors with preferred partnership exploration• Connected with partners and clients to optimise their experience
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Education
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2016 - 2019
Nanyang Technological University
Bachelor of Business, Specialising in Actuarial Science -
2018 - 2018
Hanyang University
Hanyang International Winter School -
2014 - 2015
Temasek Junior College
GCE 'A' Levels, Science
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