[Hiring] Lead Director - Decision Scientist and Analytical Validation for Financial Products @CVS Health

Role Description

The Lead Director, Decision Scientist – Forecasting Accuracy and Analytical Validation for Financial Products, ensures the accuracy, reliability, and financial integrity of analytics-driven products across the underwriting ecosystem. This leader sets the strategy for forecasted P&L accuracy, anomaly detection in live underwriting deals, analytical validation, quality assurance, and forecasting and P&L algorithm verification. They ensure that changes to data, logic, assumptions, configurations, and applications deliver expected results without unintended financial or operational impacts.

This role combines the analytical rigor of a Decision Scientist with the leadership capabilities of a financial product development leader. The position leads a team of 10+ analysts and validation professionals responsible for analytical validation, reporting solutions, business impact analysis, quality assurance, and financial result verification.

Key Responsibilities

• Analytical Validation & Financial Impact Assessment
  • 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.
• Data Analytics, Reporting & Decision Support
  • Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
  • Conduct root cause analysis, variance analysis, and business impact assessments.
  • Analyze and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data, including findings from interviews, questionnaires, observations, and stakeholder feedback, to explain business outcomes and support decision-making.
  • Develop self-service reporting solutions that provide business users with timely access to insights and performance metrics.
  • Understand, interpret, and summarize key insights, trends, risks, and opportunities from reports and dashboards.
  • Develop KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and reporting frameworks that measure product quality, financial accuracy, and business outcomes.
  • Translate complex analytical findings into actionable recommendations for business and executive leaders.
• Quality Assurance & Anomaly Detection
  • 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.
  • Develop monitoring and validation controls that improve confidence in analytical products and financial results.
• Organizational Leadership
  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing organization of decision scientists, analysts and validation professionals.
  • Define team vision, strategy, goals, priorities, and OKRs.
  • Manage resource planning, workload prioritization, and organizational growth.
  • Provide executive-level communication, reporting, and strategic recommendations.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• PBM, Healthcare, Underwriting, Pricing, Forecasting, Actuarial, or Financial Analytics experience.
• Experience validating underwriting, forecasting, pricing, or P&L platforms.
• Experience with Databricks, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Python, or similar analytics platforms.
• Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Operations Research, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $144,200.00 - $288,400.00. This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings options.
• Wellness programs and other resources, based on eligibility.