Abigail Thomas

Actuarial Consultant delivering quantitative analysis and actuarial advice across defined benefit projects, with increasing responsibility for technical review, model development, project coordination and colleague development.

Provide technical review and support across actuarial projects, assessing analytical outputs and helping ensure accurate and timely delivery.

• Coordinated delivery across 8+ client engagements, ensuring allocation of work, monitoring progress, and upholding quality standards under competing deadlines.
• Mentor and support 11 graduate consultants, providing technical guidance, reviewing work and supporting development across multiple projects.
• Led a two-day technical training programme for 30+ new graduates, translating complex actuarial modelling concepts into structured training and improving consistency during onboarding.
• Contributed to development and enhancement of firm-wide actuarial systems and processes, enabling consistent modelling approaches across multiple offices.
• Communicated complex quantitative analysis and project requirements to clients and trustees, facilitating effective decision-making and project delivery.
• Communicated complex quantitative analysis and project requirements to clients and trustees, facilitating effective decision-making and project delivery.

Delivered actuarial analysis for defined benefit projects, including funding valuations, liability calculations, insurance transactions, and model development, facilitating accurate client communication and project execution across high-liability schemes.

• Delivered valuation analysis aross DB schemes with liabilities exceeding £350m, supporting regulatory compliance and accurate, timely actuarial reporting.
• Developed a liability projection model aligned with new funding requirements, subsequently adopted across 10 offices, improving consistency and reducing time spent on individual scheme assessments.
• Supported a successful £18m PPF+ insurer transaction, contributing to quantitative analysis and transaction execution to help secure member benefits following employer insolvency.
• Analysed the feasibility of a £50m insurance transaction, conducting detailed comparisons of insurer pricing and product offerings to support client decision-making.
• Identified and corrected calculation issues in 5+ core actuarial tools, enhancing model accuracy and minimising rework across multiple projects.
• Applied data cleaning, assumption setting, sensitivity testing and results interpretation across actuarial projects to support robust quantitative analysis.
• Executed multiple GMP projects, encompassing GMP rectification, GMP equalisation, and Lloyds 3, streamlining planning, preparation, calculations, checking, and member communications.
• Worked across multiple concurrent projects, managing competing deadlines and collaborating with colleagues to deliver high-quality analytical outputs.
• Worked across multiple concurrent projects, managing competing deadlines and collaborating with colleagues to deliver high-quality analytical outputs.