Catastrophe Analyst

About the Role

PURE Insurance is seeking a Catastrophe Analyst to join our Risk & Actuarial team. This role is an opportunity for an analytically curious early-career professional to develop expertise in catastrophe modeling within a highly collaborative environment. In this role, you will support the catastrophe modeling operations that underpin key business decisions while also contributing to broader analytical and strategic initiatives. This role offers the opportunity to work on analytically challenging and strategically important problems that directly influence enterprise risk management, catastrophe exposure strategy, and long-term business decision making.

You will join a growing catastrophe management function with exposure to senior leadership and opportunities to contribute beyond traditional catastrophe modeling operations.

• Support quarterly catastrophe modeling and reporting processes using RMS Risk Modeler.
• Prepare catastrophe model outputs, exposure summaries, and post-modeling analytics for internal and external stakeholders.
• Fulfill catastrophe-related data requests for underwriting, actuarial, finance, reinsurance, and regulatory purposes.
• Support reinsurance placement activities through data preparation and analysis.
• Assist with development of automation and process improvements related to catastrophe modeling workflows.
• Complete ad hoc analyses to support strategic initiatives across the organization.
• Provide analytical support during live catastrophe events.

• 0–2 years of experience in catastrophe modeling, insurance analytics, actuarial science, or a related quantitative field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Economics, Finance, Data Science, GIS, Atmospheric Science, or another quantitative discipline.
• Experience with RMS, AIR, GIS tools, or catastrophe modeling concepts is a plus, but not required.
• Familiarity with Excel, SQL, Python, R, or other analytical tools preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in catastrophe risk and insurance.
• Independent, self-reliant, with a strong work ethic.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Base salary for this role can range from $65,000 to $85,000 based on a full-time work schedule. An individual’s ultimate compensation will vary depending on job-related skills and experience, geographic location, alignment with market data, and equity among other team members with comparable experience.