Episode 38: Actuaries as Parents with Kelly Lee
“I think that being a parent doesn't mean that you give up on your career aspirations. I feel it's more of pausing and potentially developing other skills during this time so that you're in the best position available when the right opportunity comes.”
Kelly Lee,
Emerging Actuarial Leader
Kelly is currently a Senior Actuarial Consultant at WorkSafe Victoria, providing internal consultancy support to the scheme. She started her career as an actuarial analyst in workers' compensation at Return to Work South Australia. She then worked as a Senior Manager at PwC, specialising in working with accident compensation schemes and government insurance authorities for 10 years.
She was born and raised in Malaysia, and currently lives in Melbourne with her family. Outside of work, she loves watching her 3-year old son grow into a cheeky and curious little human (and tries to bake/cook/read whenever she can)! She is also an active volunteer with the Actuaries Institute.
In this interview Kelly shares:
Her challenges in starting her actuarial career as an international students,
Her experience of combining work and parenthood without local family support or childcare (hello, Covid lockdowns!),
How she made time to complete the GA Leadership Program while working full-time and parenting her young son,
How taking an alternative career path has come with unexpected benefits, and
What she’s learned from combining parenthood with her actuarial career.
Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn.
