Finance Domain QA Lead

Reporting to Manager, Quality Engineering & AI Validation, ensures Accordion's software and AI-enabled solutions are validated against real finance workflows, control expectations, and business decision contexts. Translates finance-domain knowledge into acceptance criteria, scenario design, risk tiers, and domain signoff standards.

Key Responsibilities

Domain Acceptance Design

• Define finance-oriented validation criteria for workflows involving accounting, close, reporting, FP&A, transaction support, analytics, or CFO decision support.
• Translate finance process expectations into realistic scenarios, exception cases, and acceptance standards.

Controls & Materiality Review

• Partner with QA and Engineering to identify where outputs could create business risk, control breakdowns, or materially misleading outcomes.
• Help determine which workflows require enhanced review, human signoff, or restricted deployment.

SME Review Leadership

• Coordinate fractional finance QA reviewers from practices for high-risk releases and scenario validation.
• Create a lightweight but repeatable process for domain-level review.

Pod Support

• Advise pods on business correctness, not just technical functionality.
• Review evaluation results and help distinguish low-value issues from materially important issues.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify patterns where technically passing outputs are still operationally weak, confusing, or risky.
• Feed finance-domain insights back into benchmark sets and release criteria.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in finance transformation, controllership, FP&A, transaction services, financial operations, or related domains.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, internal controls, and how CFO organizations consume analysis and recommendations.
• Experience working with technology teams, product teams, or transformation programs.
• Ability to turn business expectations into structured validation criteria.
• Strong judgment, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

·CPA or similar background is a plus.

·Bachelor's degree preferred.

You Are

• Credible with both finance practitioners and technology teams.
• Strong at distinguishing theoretical correctness from real-world usability.
• Practical, risk-aware, and business-minded.
• Comfortable making quality calls in ambiguous scenarios.