Senior Analyst: Underwriting Analytics & Forecasting

CVS Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Analyst, Executive Underwriting Priorities to analyze pricing drivers, forecast outputs, and support decision-making. The role requires Excel modeling and SQL skills, with collaboration across underwriting, data teams, and finance in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in analytics or underwriting, a quantitative bachelor’s degree, and the ability to communicate complex findings clearly.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant professional experience in analytics, finance, underwriting, actuarial, forecasting, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas and structured modeling (e.g., INDEX/MATCH or XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, pivot tables, error checking, reconciliation techniques).
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL concepts for data extraction, validation, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Respond to a broad range of ad hoc requests by gathering facts, performing targeted analyses, and producing clear, concise readouts for leadership and business partners.
• Perform diagnostic reviews to explain changes in results across pricing and forecasting tools/models, including identification of key drivers, input changes, data shifts, and methodology impacts.
• Partner with stakeholders across the underwriting ecosystem to obtain answers, trace data lineage, and confirm interpretation of results.
• Build and maintain side analyses to validate assumptions, reconcile outputs, quantify impacts, and support leadership decisions.
• Work with structured datasets and SQL for data extraction, validation, and analysis.
• Maintain notes, references, and documentation to reduce rework and improve repeatability.

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Excel modeling

SQL

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science or quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Excel

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Analyst, Executive Underwriting Priorities to analyze pricing drivers, forecast outputs, and support decision-making. The role requires Excel modeling and SQL skills, with collaboration across underwriting, data teams, and finance in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in analytics or underwriting, a quantitative bachelor’s degree, and the ability to communicate complex findings clearly.