Last week I officially finished working on the Forecasting team and have begun work at part of the External Reporting team. My time has been divided between the two roles. Spending time explaining to others how the Forecasting spreadsheets are created, and getting to know my way around the models and spreadsheets that I will be using as part of my new role.

This involves comparing the results from different Prophet runs and accounting for any differences.

My first exam is in 6 days, so study is taking over my life at the moment. I'm taking Contingencies, Economics and Financial Economics which are proving to be very tough to get my head around, but finger's crossed they are coming together in time for the exams!

This week I've spent my time testing the affects of different expense assumptions on profits. This has involved making changes to the current models held on Prophet and creating new runs. As I haven't had much past experience doing this sort of work, there's been a steep learning curve.

As the Actuarial exams are coming up I've also been taking study afternoons. I'm looking forward to a week's holiday next week so that I can relax for the last time before exams descend!