Director of Decision Science & Financial Forecasting

CVS Health; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director, Decision Scientist - Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Validation for Financial Products to drive the accuracy and financial integrity of analytics-driven products across underwriting. You will set strategy for forecasted P&L accuracy, anomaly detection, validation, and verification of algorithms across live deals.

You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, partnering with business and finance stakeholders to validate outcomes and develop

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in analytics, decision science, business intelligence, financial analysis, quality assurance, or data validation.
• 5+ years leading large analytical teams and developing people leaders.
• Expertise in analytical validation, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, business impact assessment, and financial validation.
• Strong ability to analyze and synthesize both quantitative and qualitative data to generate insights and explain business outcomes.
• Experience developing self-service reporting solutions and communicating insights from reports and dashboards.
• Proven experience validating business outcomes and financial results using large-scale datasets.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the enterprise strategy and framework for analytical validation across the underwriting ecosystem.
• Validate business outcomes and financial impacts resulting from data, logic, configuration, and application changes.
• Lead P&L validation, forecasting validation, and financial impact assessments to ensure confidence in analytical outputs.
• Partner with business and finance stakeholders to investigate unexpected variances and performance shifts.
• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
• Develop self-service reporting solutions that provide business users with timely access to insights and performance metrics.
• Translate complex analytical findings into actionable recommendations for business and executive leaders.
• Establish standards and best practices for analytical quality assurance.
• Lead anomaly detection efforts to identify data quality issues, calculation discrepancies, forecasting deviations, and unexpected business outcomes.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing organization of decision scientists, analysts and validation professionals.

Skills

Analytical validation

Anomaly detection

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Communication / stakeholder management

Advanced SQL

Executive presentation skills

Education

Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Operations Research, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline

Tools

Databricks

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director, Decision Scientist - Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Validation for Financial Products to drive the accuracy and financial integrity of analytics-driven products across underwriting. You will set strategy for forecasted P&L accuracy, anomaly detection, validation, and verification of algorithms across live deals.

You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, partnering with business and finance stakeholders to validate outcomes and develop