This is a remote position.
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
- 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.
- 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.
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