Finance Test Manager (For contingent workers)

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.

Key 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 SMEs, 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 of special knowledge/skills

• 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 SMEs 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.

The payrate for independent contractors is 55 -76 EUR/hr