Director of Decision Science & Financial Validation

CVS Health; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director, Decision Scientist to guide forecasting accuracy and analytical validation across underwriting. You will set strategy for P&L accuracy, anomaly detection, and validation of models, ensuring changes do not adversely affect financial or operational results.

You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, collaborating with business and finance stakeholders to drive insights and governance across large data ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of analytics, decision science, or data validation.
• 5+ years leading large analytical teams.
• Expertise in analytical validation, anomaly detection, and financial validation.
• Strong ability to analyze and synthesize data to explain outcomes.
• Experience developing self-service reporting solutions.
• Proven experience validating business and financial results with large datasets.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Establish enterprise strategy for analytical validation across underwriting.
• Validate outcomes and financial impacts from data, logic, and configuration changes.
• Lead P&L and forecasting validation and financial impact assessments.
• Partner with finance to investigate variances and performance shifts.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, risks, and performance drivers.
• Conduct root cause and variance analyses; support decision-making with insights.
• Synthesize findings from reports to explain business outcomes.
• Develop self-service reporting and KPI dashboards for business users.
• Summarize trends, risks, and opportunities from dashboards and reports.
• Translate complex analytics into actionable recommendations for leaders.
• Establish QA standards; lead anomaly detection for data quality and forecasts.
• Develop monitoring controls to improve confidence in results.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of decision scientists.
• Define vision, OKRs, resource plans; manage growth and priorities.
• Provide executive-level reporting and strategic recommendations.

Skills

Analytics experience

Team leadership

Analytical validation

Anomaly detection

Root cause analysis

Impact analysis

Financial validation

Data synthesis

Self-service reporting

SQL proficiency

Executive communication

Education

Advanced degree in Analytics/Statistics/Economics/Finance/Data Science

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director, Decision Scientist to guide forecasting accuracy and analytical validation across underwriting. You will set strategy for P&L accuracy, anomaly detection, and validation of models, ensuring changes do not adversely affect financial or operational results.

You will lead a team of decision scientists and analysts, collaborating with business and finance stakeholders to drive insights and governance across large data ecosystems.