Financial Services

Meet our Financial Services Team
Adrian McGarva PFS Manging Director

Adrian McGarva

Managing Director

Stephen Crump PFS Senior Consultant

Stephen Crump

Senior Consultant

Madeleina Mattera PFS Consulting Practise Leader 1

Madeleine Mattera

Practice Leader

Ian Laughlin - PFS Consulting Principal 2

Ian Laughlin

Principal

Jane Byrne, PFS Consulting, Professional Financial Solutions 1

Jane Byrne

Director

PFS Consulting Daniel Frank, Consultancy Sydney

Daniel Frank

Senior Consultant

Assisting Entities Across Financial Services

PFS bring our wide ranging actuarial, risk, finance and governance expertise to provide insight and oversight across financial services sector with a particular focus on banking, insurance and superannuation.

Global speciality lines insurance group

PFS have project managed the Australian insurance license application of a global specialty lines insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, insurance, risk management, capital, actuarial, audit and governance to help finalise their business plan, assess the internal business case and work through the APRA licensing process.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PFS undertook a review of insurance supervisory settings in response to the introduction of IFRS17 for the NZ General Insurance sector

Integration of purchased life insurer

PFS have project managed the integration of a small Australian life insurer purchased by another APRA-licensed life insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, actuarial valuation and insurance knowledge, risk management, capital, audit and governance to help manage the integration and licensing requirements.

Valuation of Long term incentives for an ASX10 client

PFS undertakes the valuation of a complex range of Long Term Incentive (LTI) benefits granted by the Company to its executives. In addition, PFS provides final and interim monitoring reports to the Remuneration Committee. These reports keep the company up-to-date on the progress of market-based performance hurdles and give shareholders peace of mind that the assessments are calculated independently and using industry accepted methodologies under AASB2..

Meet our Financial Services Team
Adrian McGarva PFS Manging Director

Adrian McGarva

Managing Director

Stephen Crump PFS Senior Consultant 1

Stephen Crump

Senior Consultant

Madeleina Mattera PFS Consulting Practise Leader 2

Madeleine Mattera

Practice Leader

Ian Laughlin - PFS Consulting Principal

Ian Laughlin

Principal

Jane Byrne, PFS Consulting, Professional Financial Solutions 1

Jane Byrne

Director

PFS Consulting Daniel Frank, Consultancy Sydney

Daniel Frank

Senior Consultant

Assisting Entities Across Financial Services

PFS bring our wide ranging actuarial, risk, finance and governance expertise to provide insight and oversight across financial services sector with a particular focus on banking, insurance and superannuation.

Global speciality lines insurance group

PFS have project managed the Australian insurance license application of a global specialty lines insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, insurance, risk management, capital, actuarial, audit and governance to help finalise their business plan, assess the internal business case and work through the APRA licensing process.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PFS undertook a review of insurance supervisory settings in response to the introduction of IFRS17 for the NZ General Insurance sector

Integration of purchased life insurer

PFS have project managed the integration of a small Australian life insurer purchased by another APRA-licensed life insurer. We combined our expertise across local regulatory requirements, actuarial valuation and insurance knowledge, risk management, capital, audit and governance to help manage the integration and licensing requirements.

Valuation of Long term incentives for an ASX10 client

PFS undertakes the valuation of a complex range of Long Term Incentive (LTI) benefits granted by the Company to its executives. In addition, PFS provides final and interim monitoring reports to the Remuneration Committee. These reports keep the company up-to-date on the progress of market-based performance hurdles and give shareholders peace of mind that the assessments are calculated independently and using industry accepted methodologies under AASB2..

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Core Strengths

PFS combined our broad actuarial and risk knowledge across a wide range of financial services companies.

Recent Articles

Recent Articles

Establishing a bank in Australia
The PFS team has been involved in numerous APRA and ASIC licencing projects including Banks (ADIs), Restricted ADIs (RADIs) and Insurers. PFS has firsthand experience of the challenges, APRA’s expectations...
CPS230 Operational Risk
On 1 July 2025, APRA-regulated financial institutions will enter a new chapter in risk governance with the commencement of CPS 230: Operational Risk Management....
APRA Submission, Governance Review
PFS Consulting supports enhancing governance standards but believe additional clarity is needed on some specific elements of the proposals, and how they will be implemented and enforced. We also think...

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