Finance Test Manager

Details

The Finance Test Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing Finance testing across business change initiatives, ensuring that requirements are adequately tested, risks and defects are managed, and stakeholders have a clear view of readiness for release.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Finance test approach across relevant test cycles, including system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, and release validation.
• Translate Finance requirements, business processes, control expectations, and reporting needs into a structured test scope and coverage plan.
• Define test objectives, entry and exit criteria, required test data, environment needs, dependencies, and key milestones.
• Coordinate Finance subject-matter experts, business testers, and workstream representatives, ensuring the right people are identified, prepared, and available for each test cycle.
• Plan and monitor test-case preparation, execution, evidence capture, and traceability in the agreed test-management tooling.
• Ensure testing covers complete Finance processes and interfaces, including positive, negative, exception, reconciliation, reporting, and control scenarios.
• Lead Finance defect management, including triage, impact assessment, prioritisation, ownership, retesting, and escalation of unresolved issues.
• Coordinate with technical test managers, workstream leads, product teams, technology teams, and other business stakeholders to resolve cross-functional testing dependencies.
• Monitor test progress, coverage, execution quality, defect trends, risks, and blockers, and provide clear status reporting to programme and business leadership.
• Assess testing readiness and residual risk, highlighting gaps that could affect operational continuity, financial reporting, controls, compliance, or release confidence.
• Prepare test completion and sign-off recommendations, clearly distinguishing passed testing, open defects, accepted limitations, and outstanding actions.
• Capture lessons learned and drive improvements to Finance testing standards, reusable scenarios, test data, environments, and ways of working.

Requirements

• Experience leading testing for Finance, ERP, payments, accounting, reconciliation, reporting, or other business-critical processes.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end testing, UAT, defect management, test evidence, and release readiness.
• Ability to coordinate business subject-matter experts and technical teams across multiple workstreams and organisational boundaries.
• Strong analytical and risk-assessment skills, with the ability to explain testing status and residual risk to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Jira, Xray, or equivalent test-management and defect-tracking tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication, structured planning, and confident stakeholder management.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, regulated, or control-focused environment.

Engagement Details

• Contract timeline: 1 year, from November 16, 2026, to November 15, 2027.
• The pay rate for independent contractors is EUR 55–76 per hour.
• Hours: 40 hours per week.