Job Description
Job Description
This is a remote position.
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.
RequirementsRequired 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.