Experience

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  Adica Insurance

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Chief Actuary and Product Officer

    • Feb 2021 - Present

  • Head of Actuarial Services

    • Sep 2017 - Feb 2021

    Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company Australia (ADICA) is a predominantly a motor vehicle insurance underwriting. Upon starting at ADICA the initial focus has been on the in-housing of all pricing work. This includes both technical pricing and the translation to market prices.

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  Guild Group

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Senior Actuary (Contract)

    • Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
    • Melbourne, Australia

    My contract position at Guild was primarily to introduce a statistical model for dental professional indemnity claims and use this to influence the pricing to the market and improve the competitive position whilst maintaining profitability.

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  Medibank

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • General Manager, Analytics - Provider Networks & Integrated Care

    • Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
    • Melbourne, Australia

    The Provider Networks & Integrated Care (PNIC) division within Medibank carries the responsibility of managing benefit outlays for private health insurance portfolio and running population and telephonic health programs.As the General Manager of Analytics within PNIC was primarily responsible for leading a team of analysts, developers and data administrators who worked to:• Provide analytical support across all aspects of claims experience within Medibank including hospital contracting, utilisation management, payment integrity, external reporting, claims forecasting and financial reporting.• Work with business stakeholders to design and build interactive reports and dashboards.• Maintain provider master data and reference data (pricing lists) and fulfill regulatory requirements in respect of collection, storage and provision of hospital case mix protocol data• Forecast claim trends as an input into Group Corporate Plan and advice on market statements in respect of profit emergence.

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  Ernst & Young

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Senior Manager

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2013
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Working within the Melbourne General Insurance Actuarial division, my role at EY incorporated a number of different aspects across insurance including:• Leading an independent outstanding claims valuation for the Asia and New Zealand divison of a global insurer.• Developing a business intelligence strategy for a niche general insurer.• Conducting a review of domestic building insurance premiums including assessing the validity of the technical price, implementation of the technical price into market and the alignment of pricing goals to scheme objectives.• Leading external peer reviews for a number of general insurance companies in accordance with Professional Standard 315 and provision of audit support with respect to the valuation of health insurance liabilities, self-insured workers compensation funds and loyalty program liabilities.

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  CGU Insurance

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager Retail SBU Actuarial Support

    • Mar 2011 - Feb 2012

    This role carried the responsibility for the provision of Actuarial support for CGU’s Retail Special Business Unit, focusing on Small to Medium business and broker-distributed Personal Lines products. This involved leading a team of 6 analysts to deliver technical pricing and insights to support business decisions.

  • Manager - Corporate SBU Actuarial Pricing Team

    • Nov 2008 - Feb 2011

    The Corporate Special Business Unit at CGU was responsible for portfolio management of the Industrial Special Risks, Construction, Engineering, Liability, Marine and Fleet product lines. The responsibility of the Actuarial pricing manager was to lead a team of 4 analysts to provide technical pricing and decision support for business stakeholders.

  • Liability Research Analyst

    • Jan 2005 - Oct 2008

    Responsible for developing and maintaining technical prices for the liability portfolio through the utilisation of statistical methods, influencing changes to pricing schedules and monitoring the impacts of legislative reform.

  • Reserving Data Analyst

    • Aug 2003 - Dec 2004

    The primary responsibility of this role was the provision of data to input into outstanding claims valuations, the completion of templates for submission of APRA forms and the completion of the Premium Liabilities valuation for the CGU Commercial portfolio.