Accounting UAT Specialist

We are looking for Accounting & Tax Consultant with a strong accounting and financial background to support the functional validation of accounting and tax automation solutions.

The role will be responsible for performing end-to-end validation of financial transactions, accounting processes, and reporting outputs, ensuring that results comply with business rules, accounting principles, financial integrity requirements, and established controls.

The consultant will work closely with Accounting, Tax, Operations, and Technology teams, participating in test planning and execution, reconciliations, variance analysis, defect management, re-testing, regression testing, and preparation of audit-ready evidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze functional requirements, accounting workflows, business rules, and controls to define comprehensive and relevant test scenarios.
• Design and execute UAT test cases covering standard transactions and exception scenarios.
• Validate accounting processes including journal entries, reversals, adjustments, accruals, deferrals, and financial close activities.
• Validate affected accounts, debit/credit nature, amounts, accounting dates, currencies, references, and required attributes.
• Perform reconciliations between subledgers and General Ledger (GL) and between operational/source systems and GL.
• Investigate variances, identify probable/root causes, and document well-supported conclusions.
• Validate financial reports and layouts, including fields, mandatory information, business rules, totals, subtotals, reporting periods, and currencies.
• Validate the completeness, accuracy, integrity, consistency, and timeliness of processed data.
• Document test results and maintain complete, traceable, audit-ready evidence.
• Log, classify, and track defects using defect management tools such as JIRA.
• Coordinate with functional and technical teams to support defect resolution.
• Perform re-testing and regression testing to confirm that defects have been properly resolved.
• Identify and communicate unresolved risks, variances, and potential accounting or control impacts.
• Support UAT closure activities and contribute to the overall release readiness assessment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• English B2 level, with the ability to communicate and hold conversations in English.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in accounting, financial controls, functional testing, UAT, or equivalent functions.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in Banking Sector or Big4.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in General Ledger with Peoplesoft, Oracle or SAP
• Proven experience executing testing of automated accounting processes or equivalent functional validations from a finance/accounting perspective.
• Strong practical knowledge of accounting processes, including:
• Journal Entries
• Reversals
• Adjustments
• Accruals and Deferrals
• Financial Close
• Hands-on experience performing subledger-to-General Ledger reconciliations and source-to-GL reconciliations.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate variances, identify probable causes, and document conclusions.
• Experience validating financial reports and data layouts.
• Experience documenting test evidence and maintaining traceability between requirements, test cases, results, and defects.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with defect management tools, preferably JIRA.
• Previous experience in banking or financial services is preferred.
• Experience working on accounting or tax automation projects.
• Knowledge of SQL, Power Query, or Power BI for data analysis and reconciliation.
• Experience working in regulated environments or supporting internal/external audits.