Jill’s primary areas of expertise include annuity actuarial programming and software architecture, with a focus on scalability, efficiency, and robust development practices for US GAAP and IFRS 17.
Jill is a Senior Actuarial Consultant at August Actuarial Consulting (AAC) with over 16 years of experience working with actuarial software. Throughout her career, she has focused on scalability, efficiency, consistency, and maintainability – both within software systems as well as in the programming practices that support their growth and implementation practices that support their use.
Jill spent nearly 10 years at GGY AXIS and Moody’s Analytics. As a Director at Moody’s Analytics, she led the annuity actuarial programming team for several of these years. In her role, she supported her team in writing specifications for model enhancements to meet client modeling needs, programming new functionality into the AXIS software platform, and supporting clients by reviewing their models and explaining results. Her key focus was on ensuring robust practices were used in actuarial development, and that these translated into a robust software product. A few of her key individual programming contributions to AXIS software include:
- The addition of longevity swap reinsurance .
- Multiple features to support the modelling of pension risk transfer within the annuity module
- Restructuring of annuitization phase valuation code base to improve runtime and consistency, and to add greater transparency
- Features to improve efficiency and consistency of formula table functionality
- Functionality needed to support US GAAP and IFRS 17 within the annuity module
Prior to her time at Moody’s, Jill has about 6 years of experience working on pension administration software platforms as an actuarial developer and certified solution architect. She supported several large Canadian public sector pension plans by designing software solutions, leading teams of developers, providing user support, and programming the actuarial calculation functionality necessary for pension administration.
Jill received her FSA and FCIA in 2016. She has been an active member of the actuarial community since 2013, volunteering in a variety of roles including serving as a member of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ board and the Actuarial Foundation of Canada’s board. Before embarking on her career, Jill received a M.Sc. in Biology with a focus on biomathematics as well as a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Biology from Queen’s University.