Specialist Lead, Firm Financial Systems

We are seeking a Specialist Lead to join our Finance Systems team User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for finance-led platform enhancements and integrations.

In this role, you will own UAT planning, readiness, and execution across GEMS, SWIFT, Beacon, CP3, and other finance applications, including those connected to SAP S/4HANA and related financial applications such as pricing and forecasting.

You will act as the bridge between finance business users and technology teams: translating finance requirements into acceptance criteria and UAT scenarios, preparing and coordinating business testers, working with Information Technology Services (ITS), product engineering, and business teams, and giving stakeholders a clear, evidence-based view of release readiness to support go/no-go decisions.

The Specialist Lead will also guide and mentor testers on the team and support the testing lead in day-to-day delivery.

Work You'll Do:

As a Specialist Lead, Firm Financial Systems, you will:


* Define UAT scope, approach, and entry and exit criteria for finance application enhancements across GEMS, SWIFT, Beacon, CP3, and other finance platforms, including effort estimates and alignment to the release plan


* Translate business requirements and acceptance criteria into UAT scenarios, test scripts, and test data that reflect real finance processes, ensuring shared understanding with product, engineering, and business teams


* Partner with business process owners to identify, onboard, and brief UAT participants, setting clear expectations on roles, timelines, and sign-off, and scheduling around finance calendar constraints such as period-end close


* Confirm UAT environment and test data readiness with ITS before each cycle, including SAP S/4HANA-connected interfaces and reporting outputs


* Coordinate and run UAT cycles, guiding business testers, tracking execution progress against plan, and communicating daily status and blockers


* Triage defects with business, product, and engineering teams by confirming severity and priority, distinguishing defects from change requests and training needs, and tracking fixes through retest and closure


* Validate accounting and financial outcomes for finance-impacting changes, including reconciliations and data quality checks, and ensure test evidence is captured and audit-ready


* Execute or oversee system integration, regression, and end-to-end testing to confirm releases are stable before and after UAT


* Report UAT status, coverage, defect trends, and risks to the testing lead and stakeholders, and prepare go/no-go inputs and UAT sign-off documentation


* Support production support and release hypercare validation, and apply lessons learned from UAT and production defects to future test planning


* Mentor and guide testers by setting clear priorities, supporting performance and development, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture


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