Joshua Knipe

Experience

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  Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2015

  Scholar

  After a lengthy selection process in which over 6000 students applied, I was selected as one of roughy 40 scholars to receive a full scholarship for high school. As a result I was able to attend Bishops Diocesan College from 2011 to 2015

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  University of Cape Town

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2018

  In charge of financial matters for Smuts Hall Residence and the link between UCT treasury and Smuts Hall. Part of my duties included managing the roughly R400 000 budget and processing timeous payments to suppliers.

  • Treasurer for Smuts Hall

    Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Residence tutor

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
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  UCT Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency Society

  Sept 2017 - Oct 2018

  Director Of Corporate Relations

  As a founding member of CryptoSoc my role was to coordinate campus events and communicate with corporate sponsors. As a new society, we managed to get over 400 students to sign up in our first year.

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  Bain & Company

  Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  Member of the Building Entrepreneurial Leadership Programme

  The purpose of the Building Entrepreneurial Leaders programme is to identify, nurture and grow the future leaders of South Africa and Africa at large. BEL is a programme which provides participants interactive workshops to build their leadership and problem-solving skills, as well as invitations to Bain Academy presentations that give access to top South African business leaders.

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  University of Cape Town

  Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

  University Tutor

  Tutored a class of 25 students for the third year actuarial science course: Survival models (CT4)

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  Gen Re

  Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  Research Intern

  Assisted the Research and Analytics team. Completed an individual project to automate identifying and correcting errors in the claims database. Also assisted with using sentiment analysis to predict reinsurance claims. Worked in R, VBA and SQLServer.

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  Deloitte

  Feb 2021 - now

  Independently developed a Python interest rate calibrator in order to validate a South African Tier 1 bank’s interest rate models. This was able to improve fit to market swaptions by a factor of 10 compared to the team's existing toolImplemented a pricing tool in Python that allowed for significantly faster pricing of American options.Reviewed and tested the economic scenario generator used by a major insurer, including their models for interest rates, inflation forecasts, credit risk, equity prices, property values, and also the correlations between all these variables. Show less

  • Consultant | Capital Markets Group

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Senior Analyst

    Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Analyst

    Mar 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Junior Analyst

    Feb 2021 - Feb 2022