Sharon Weiss
About Sharon Weiss
Sharon Weiss is a Senior Actuarial Analyst at Legal & General, with a strong background in actuarial science and information systems. She has previously worked at Clal Insurance and Israel Aerospace Industries, and holds a Master's degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Haifa.
Work at Legal & General
Sharon Weiss has been employed at Legal & General as a Senior Actuarial Analyst since 2019. In her role, she has automated scheme pricing and review documentation processes, which has led to significant time savings and enhanced business pricing and revenue growth. Additionally, she developed an XML Parser in Python to assist with illustrations investigations, improving the testing of pre-populated member Workplace Pensions illustrations.
Previous Experience at Clal Insurance
Before joining Legal & General, Sharon Weiss worked at Clal Insurance as an Actuarial Analyst from 2016 to 2019. During her tenure in the Tel Aviv Area, Israel, she conducted persistency investigations to update pricing and reporting assumptions, identifying factors that influenced trends in persistency. She also reconciled differences between pricing and reporting models in Prophet, assessing model and assumption discrepancies and their impacts on the company's New Business Value Added (NBVA).
Experience at IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries
Sharon Weiss was employed at IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries from 2013 to 2016, where she focused on Information Systems Management and Development in Lod, Israel. Her work involved amending DCS files for model point creation, which streamlined processes by reducing the number of runs from 18 separate DCS programs to a single run. This efficiency contributed to improved operational workflows.
Education and Expertise
Sharon Weiss holds a Master's degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Haifa, where she studied from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, as well as Economics, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completing her studies from 2005 to 2009. Her educational background provides a strong foundation for her expertise in actuarial analysis and related fields.
Technical Skills and Contributions
In her professional roles, Sharon Weiss has demonstrated strong technical skills, particularly in Excel and VBA, where she developed a new fund growth rates model to calculate member benefit illustrations. This model is regularly updated based on emerging experience. Her contributions have included significant advancements in automation and efficiency within actuarial processes.