Head of Decision Science & Financial Analytics Validation

9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Bonus program

Equity award program

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Decision Scientist for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Validation for Financial Products. You will set strategy for ABC and lead a team of 10+ analysts ensuring P&L validity, anomaly detection, and robust reporting across underwriting.

You’ll partner with finance and business stakeholders to explain variances and impacts. The role combines analytical rigor with leadership, driving data-driven decisions and high-quality financial analytics within a

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in analytics, decision science, business intelligence, financial analysis, quality assurance, or data validation.
• 5+ years of experience 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.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Executive communication

Leadership

Education

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

Tools

Databricks

Tableau

Power BI

Python

Excel

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Decision Scientist for Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Validation for Financial Products. You will set strategy for ABC and lead a team of 10+ analysts ensuring P&L validity, anomaly detection, and robust reporting across underwriting.

You’ll partner with finance and business stakeholders to explain variances and impacts. The role combines analytical rigor with leadership, driving data-driven decisions and high-quality financial analytics within a