Specialities · Catastrophe Modelling
Catastrophe modelling recruitment for insurers, reinsurers and GCCs
From catastrophe modelling analysts and stochastic modelers to cat underwriters, exposure management specialists and heads of cat risk, we help insurers, reinsurers and capability centres hire the people who quantify the risk of natural and large scale catastrophic events. It is a small, highly technical talent pool, and one we know well.
What catastrophe modelling roles does EliteRecruitments recruit for?
EliteRecruitments recruits across catastrophe modelling and catastrophe risk: catastrophe modelling analysts, senior modelling analysts, stochastic, hazard and vulnerability modelers, catastrophe underwriters, cat risk specialists, exposure management professionals, and catastrophe modelling leadership. It serves insurers, reinsurers and the capability centres that build cat modelling functions, across India and international markets including the reinsurance hubs.
Since 2014
recruiting the specialist modelling pool
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
Actuarial adjacent
where actuarial, risk and analytics meet
Our catastrophe modelling depth
Where insurers put a number on the unthinkable
The people who do catastrophe modelling combine deep technical skill in statistics, probability and the science of perils with a real understanding of how insurance and reinsurance work, and that combination is rare. The talent pool is small, specialised and in demand, which makes it one of the harder areas in insurance to hire well.
We have recruited in catastrophe modelling for years, placing modelling analysts, stochastic and hazard modelers, cat underwriters and cat risk specialists. It is a natural extension of our actuarial and analytics depth, because catastrophe modelling sits exactly where those disciplines meet, and clients value a recruiter who understands the modelling, the perils and the market for the people who work on them.
The catastrophe modelling roles we recruit
From the model to the book
Catastrophe modelling spans the people who build the models, the underwriters who price catastrophe risk, the specialists who manage exposure, and the leaders who own cat risk across a portfolio.
Catastrophe modelling analysts
Analysts and senior modelling analysts who build and run cat models, analyse output, identify the key drivers of risk, and work with underwriters and actuaries so the models reflect real exposure. The core technical role in any cat modelling function.
Stochastic, hazard and vulnerability modelers
Stochastic modelers who forecast the likelihood and impact of future events, and the hazard and vulnerability specialists who model the intensity of a peril and the susceptibility of exposed assets. Highly quantitative roles drawing on statistical modelling and probability.
Catastrophe underwriters
Underwriters who assess and price the risk of insuring policies and portfolios against catastrophic events, develop strategies that balance risk and return, and translate modelling output into underwriting decisions. The bridge between the model and the book.
Cat risk and exposure management
Cat risk specialists and exposure management professionals who identify, assess and manage catastrophe risk across a portfolio, build the risk frameworks, and own exposure accumulation and the reinsurance picture on top of it.
Catastrophe modelling leadership
Heads of catastrophe modelling and cat risk, the senior leaders who own the function, set the approach, and sit alongside actuarial and risk leadership. Confidential, judgement heavy searches connecting to our leadership hiring work.
A growing, specialised market
Catastrophe risk is rising up the agenda
Climate change is redrawing the map of perils, new products such as parametric and catastrophe linked instruments depend on modelling to set their triggers, and insurers and reinsurers need sharper exposure management than ever. At the same time, catastrophe modelling capability is increasingly being built inside India’s capability centres, alongside the actuarial and analytics functions these centres already run. All of this has lifted demand for a talent pool that was never large to begin with. The discipline also has strong reinsurance relevance, and the reinsurance hubs remain important markets for senior cat modelling and cat risk talent.
Who we serve, and how we assess
Technical depth that is hard to fake, easy to overstate
We hire for insurers strengthening their cat modelling and cat risk functions, reinsurers needing senior modelling, exposure and cat risk talent, and the capability centres scaling cat modelling in India. We assess whether a modeler truly understands the statistics and the perils, whether an underwriter can turn model output into sound decisions, and whether the person fits the team, before any profile reaches you. That discipline is why our placements last: we screen at an 80 per cent rate and our candidates join at an 85 per cent rate, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees.
Founder led
Shagun Gupta
Founder, stays close to the specialist work
EliteRecruitments is led by its founder, Shagun Gupta, who built the firm out of actuarial and stays close to the specialist work across the practice. Catastrophe modelling sits naturally alongside our actuarial desk, so contact routes to Shagun and Priya Sharma, who lead the actuarial practice. So when you talk to us about a role here, you reach people who understand the work and the market for it, not a generalist passing on a brief.
Proof
Representative cat modelling searches
Shown as role, sector and location, without names, counts or salaries:
Catastrophe Modelling Analyst
Cat Risk Specialist
Exposure Management Lead
Head of Cat Modelling
Illustrative of the role types we recruit. Specific anonymised placements to be confirmed before publishing.
Related specialities
Catastrophe modelling rarely sits on its own
It connects to our actuarial practice, where pricing and capital depend on the same risk picture, to our analytics practice, where modelling and data science increasingly overlap, and to our risk practice, where catastrophe risk feeds enterprise and capital risk. Much of this work comes from capability centres building cat modelling in India.
How to work with us
A model that fits, with a 90 day guarantee
We recruit catastrophe modelling talent on the basis that suits the role: retained search for senior and business critical hires, contingency for active roles, and capability build recruitment when you are standing up a cat modelling function in a capability centre. Whichever way we work, our placements come with a 90 day guarantee, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees, because our process is built so the guarantee rarely needs to be used. Explore Capability Build Recruitment →
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
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Speak to us about catastrophe modelling
Whether you are building a catastrophe modelling function in a capability centre, hiring a hard to find modeler or cat underwriter, or weighing your own next move in cat risk, we would like to help.
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