Nilesh Mehta, A.S.A.

 

Summary

 

Results-driven Life Actuarial Associate with over five years of experience encompassing numerous facets of life insurance.  Practical mix of soft-skills and technical aptitude.  Diverse background includes:

 
  • Pricing
  • Experience Studies
  • Valuation
  • Risk Modelling

 

 

Solid technical expertise implementing solutions to problems using:

 
  • AXIS/Datalink
  • Excel
  • Access
  • Programming

Employment Experience

2004 – present

Hewitt Associates, Toronto

Associate, Consulting

 

·         Completed valuations, data reconciliations and prepared government forms

·         Multitasked multiple client responsibilities within short timeframes

 

2001 – 2004

Canada Life Assurance (Reinsurance/Individual Par), Toronto

Actuarial Specialist, Financial Management/Special Projects

 

Reinsurance

·         Reinsurance seriatim valuation model construction and maintenance

·         Produced reinsurance client mortality/lapse studies

·         Created a new reinsurance pricing mortality table

·         Participated in development of new reinsurance underwriting standards

·         Developed database to keep track of reinsurance pricing area

·         Handled pricing of life reinsurance quotes (Term, Mortgage, Whole Life, etc.)

·         Trained and managed summer/co-op students

·         Communicated with retrocessionaire and direct life insurers

·         Reviewed reinsurance treaties for accuracy

·         Main Skills: Pricing, Valuation, Database, AXIS, Datalink

 

Individual Par

·         Analyzed tax, post-merger dividend scale and post-pricing analysis

·         Special projects: Canadian Par team Integration work with London Life

·         Main skills: Valuation, Database, AXIS, Datalink

 

1999 – 2001

Genesis Financial Products, Mississauga

Actuarial Associate, Life Insurance Consulting

·         Priced equity indexed annuity (EIA) products

·         Analyzed risk and tested hedging strategies

·         Performed competitive analysis

·         Programmed in-house as well as client pricing systems

·         Researched portfolio insurance (product development)

·         Main Skills: APL, J, Delphi, Annuities, Derivative hedging

 

Nilesh Mehta, A.S.A.

 

Employment Experience (Continued)

1997 –

1998

IOF Foresters, Toronto

Actuarial Internship (from University of Toronto), Corporate Actuarial

·         Involved in the asset/reinvestment side of PPM Valuation using AXIS

·         Modelled assets on other accounting bases for reporting purposes

·         Created the IOF’s product information Intranet

·         Worked on Data Warehouse conversion project (Brio)

·         Main Skills: AXIS, Datalink, TAS, Excel, Visual Basic, Investments

 

Summer 1996

Lincoln National Life Insurance, Indiana

Summer Student, Individual Markets Product Development

·         Acquired strong Lotus 1-2-3 skills to analyze data and create reports

·         Reprogrammed portions of the illustration system using Basic

·         Main Skills: Programming, Spreadsheet

Professional Exams

 

·         SOA exams 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 along with 5 P.D. credits

·         Associate of the Society of Actuaries since Fall 2002

Education

1995 to 1999

University of Toronto, Honours B.Sc.

Double major in Actuarial Science and Computer Science

·         Recipient of 2 scholarships: Kinsman and New College

·         On the Dean’s List, and graduated with high distinction

·         GPA of 3.59

Computer Skills

 

·         Programming Languages: APL, J, C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, Java, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, Intel x86 Assembly, Visual Basic, VBA Macros, HTML and others

·         Actuarial/Investment Software: AXIS, Datalink, TAS, Bondedge

·         Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux and Mainframes

·         Office Applications: MS Office, Lotus Smart Suite

·         Experience with Internet/Intranet client and server side software

·         Databases/Tools: MS Access, Fox Pro, Brio

Organizations

1999 to 2001

·         Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)