I joined PwC’s Insurance Liability Restructuring team in September 2020, following my A-levels.
Knowing I would be joining a huge firm at 18 was daunting, but I was excited to start work in the City, following in my Dad’s footsteps. However, as the country entered its second lockdown, my school friends headed off to university and I began working from home. It wasn’t until a year later I could return to the office and learn some normality. I began working on a Gibraltar-based insurance insolvency and learnt a lot about the intricacies of insolvencies. After working on various insolvency and advisory jobs, I started working on two large insurance insolvencies (c.2bn liabilities), where I began developing my technical claims expertise, particularly in industrial and disease claims. This also led to me developing strong project management skills, coordinating the work completed by both internal and external stakeholders, managing the workloads of junior team members and directors to ensure deadlines are met. I now leverage my strong claims knowledge to feed into a wider claims strategy. As well as my day-to-day job, I drive a number of team efforts – leading my peer group, organising team events and founding and organising our Women in Insurance events. Its extremely important to me that the team is happy, as after losing my Dad at 21, the team showed so much care and love towards me and I want to ensure I can provide the same for those in the team who may need it.