User Acceptance Team Lead

Insight Global; Illinois; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in the United States Midwest seeks an experienced UAT Lead to own end-to-end UAT strategy for a large finance transformation spanning multiple releases and data platforms. You will orchestrate testing across Finance, Technology, Analytics, Risk, and Treasury, challenging results and guiding business sign-off.

Candidates should have 10+ years leading UAT in finance or regulatory reporting, deep knowledge of general ledger, profitability, and reconciliations, and proven ability to

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading UAT for large finance transformations.
• Experience coordinating Finance SMEs, product owners, technology, QA, and partners.
• Ability to assess readiness and provide sign-off recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end UAT strategy, governance, scope, and entry/exit criteria.
• Coordinate testing across Finance, Technology, Analytics, Risk, Treasury, Controls, upstream/downstream teams.
• Ensure end-to-end data flows, processes, integrations, and reporting coverage.
• Identify dependencies, environment constraints, data-readiness issues, testing risks, and coverage gaps.
• Lead defect triage and escalation; distinguish defects from data/design/environment issues.
• Direct UAT leads and execution teams with consistent testing, evidence, and traceability.
• Provide consolidated status, risk, defect, and readiness reporting to governance bodies.
• Drive business decisions, residual risk acceptance, sign-off, and deployment readiness.

Skills

UAT Leadership

Finance domain knowledge

Cross-functional coordination

End-to-end testing

Defect governance

Data flow understanding

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/IS/CS

CPA/CFA/PMP/CBAP/SAFe designation

Job description

• 10+ years leading UAT functions for large-scale Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Data Warehouse, ERP, or Management Reporting transformations.
• Proven experience as the overall UAT Lead for complex, multi-release enterprise programs with numerous business stakeholders.
• Deep Finance knowledge across Management Reporting, Financial Reporting, Allocations, Profitability, Cost Management, General Ledger, Treasury, Risk, or Regulatory Reporting.
• Experience leading end-to-end testing across source systems, data warehouses/lakes, calculation engines, reporting platforms, reconciliations, and downstream integrations.
• Strong ability to assess business readiness, challenge test results, identify coverage gaps, and evaluate business impact.
• Experience leading defect governance, risk management, executive-level reporting, escalation, and formal business sign-off.
• Strong understanding of complex data flows, transformations, reconciliations, and reporting outputs.
• Experience coordinating Finance SMEs, product owners, technology teams, QA resources, data analysts, and external delivery partners.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience with cloud migration, data modernization, Finance transformation, or large-scale platform replacement initiatives.
• Experience working within structured SDLC, Agile, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree or CPA, CFA, PMP, CBAP, Scrum, or SAFe designation.

Job Description

The UAT Lead will own the end-to-end UAT strategy, governance, and business readiness for a large, complex Finance transformation spanning multiple releases, source systems, data platforms, downstream applications, and reporting consumers. This is a UAT leadership position focused on independently orchestrating testing, challenging results, resolving cross-functional issues, and providing a clear assessment of readiness for business sign-off and deployment.

Responsibilities include:

• Own the integrated UAT strategy, scope, operating model, plan, governance, and entry/exit criteria.
• Coordinate testing across Finance, Technology, Analytics, Risk, Treasury, Controllers, upstream providers, and downstream consumers.
• Ensure end-to-end coverage of data flows, business processes, integrations, reporting, reconciliations, and downstream impacts.
• Identify cross-release dependencies, environment constraints, data-readiness issues, testing risks, and coverage gaps.
• Lead defect triage and escalation while distinguishing defects from data, design, requirements, environment, and business-process issues.
• Direct release-level UAT leads and execution teams while maintaining consistent testing, evidence, traceability, and reporting standards.
• Provide consolidated status, risk, defect, and readiness reporting to program governance and senior Finance stakeholders.
• Drive business decisions, residual-risk acceptance, formal sign-off, and deployment-readiness recommendations.

Location: Remote (candidates must be based in Midwest US).