SPEAKER
Michael Clarke
Michael is an actuary based in Wellington working for ACC, New Zealand’s accident compensation scheme. His role is to manage the actuarial pricing team that recommends the levies to the Government for New Zealanders to pay for the scheme. Previously he worked as a consulting actuary at PwC and Taylor Fry with a focus on advanced analytics.
Michael is a 5x finalist of the now-discontinued ModelOff financial modeling world championships with a third-place finish in 2014 and two further fourth-place finishes. He is in Las Vegas after qualifying in the top 8 of the Microsoft Excel World Championship for the second consecutive year.
Understanding and working with text and dates in Excel is a key part of any user’s toolkit whether it be in financial modeling, working with data, or even creating simple tables and lists. While knowing shortcuts have a bit of a learning curve but they can be the difference between going home at 5 PM instead of 10 PM.
This masterclass will cover tips and tricks in all three areas followed by working through some case studies to bring the knowledge all together.
OTHER SPEAKERS
Acquisition, capital raise, project finance and corporate lending professional. Has MSc in civil engineering & construction, and project & structured finance.
An independent mining engineer and a university lecturer in Mining Engineering.
Practice Lead for Governance, Adoption and Change Management, SoftwareOne North America
Founder of The Golden Company. FMWC 2022 and 2023 Champion. Ex Wall Street quant.
Previously worked as actuary in PwC and Taylor Fry. Five times ModelOff finalist and one time bronze medalist. Two time MEWC finalist.
Worked at Operis for 2 years together with Michael Jarman. Active FMWC and MEWC participant. Part of the case design team. Currently pursuing an MSc. in Mathematics and Statistics.
Contractor with an impressive 23-year track record in the actuarial departments of leading insurance providers in Europe and the UK.
Road to Las Vegas and MEWC cases' author, Consultant at Oliver Wyman
Award-winning author in analytics, data science, and data visualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP Award winner
Founder & CEO of Financial Modeling World Cup. Financial Modeling World Championship 2-time finalist
25-time Excel MVP Award winner, author of 5 Excel books, Excel user since version 0.99
Executive Director at Financial Modeling Institute. Chartered Financial Modeler
Founder of The FP&A Guy. Providing world-class content and training for FP&A and Finance Professionals
Founder of Vertex42.com. Spreadsheet template developer since 2003
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