Finance Domain QA Lead

Finance Domain QA Lead

Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity's value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Finance Domain QA Lead

The Finance Domain QA Lead ensures Accordion's software and AI-enabled solutions are validated against real finance workflows, control expectations, and business decision contexts. This impactful role will be critical in translating finance-domain knowledge into acceptance criteria, scenario design, risk tiers, and domain signoff standards.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You'll Do:

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

You Have:

• 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, with a focus on being practical, risk-aware, and business-minded
• Experience working with technology teams, product teams, or transformation programs
• Ability to turn business expectations into structured validation criteria and ability to distinguish theoretical correctness from real-world usability
• Strong judgment, communication, and stakeholder management skills – you are credible with both finance practitioners and technology teams
• Comfortability making quality calls in ambiguous scenarios
• CPA or similar background is a plus
• Bachelor's degree preferred

You Are:

• Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $155,000 to $195,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.