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An Actuarial Analyst with experience covering financial data analysis, Conference Speaking and knowledge of products derived from Actuarial Business Requirements gathering, Actuarial Systems Migration, Actuarial and Statistical Analysis, review projects, and extensive financial reading. Analytical with the ability to work flexibly as the business demands. Excellent Development skills within excel VBA, Access VBA & SQL, Informix SQL and AWB and Teradata SQL. Understanding of Hummingbird UNIX, Mathematica and Matlab code with the ability to translate code into Calculation requirements. Ability to turn Actuarial/Mathematical theory into code that passes Unit tests, User Acceptance and production integration tests. Good Knowledge of Financial Product charging structures and Projection modeling from a wide variety of sources. Solid understanding of the Actuarial theory underlying pricing of investment banking and insurance products. Good understanding of the challenges and opportunities of Solvency II. Specialties: Solvency II, Migration of Actuarial / Financial data, Design and build of VaR calculators, Actuarial Analysis, Calculation specification, Rapid application development, Tactical development, Projection modeling for actuarial life and pensions Products, Excel / Access VBA - and SQL.