Our leading client is looking for a UAT Manager to lead their Actuarial & Finance workstreams to complete UAT of a Group Financial Solution. The role is focused on planning and resourcing the testing, providing reporting visibility of progress, managing issue resolution & escalation across the test cycles as well as supporting management satisfy auditor reviews of the UAT cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the Technical PM to develop and manage the delivery plan, aligning the NZ plan with Group Office UAT planning and wider programme
• Be the NZ representative to Group managing all NZ UAT deliverables on behalf of Group
• Status reporting on plan and deliverables to NZ & Group
• Workstream planning & resource management in consultation with Workstream Leads
• Manage resource to deliver outcomes, resolve issues
• Test approach, cases, script validation with Workstream leads
• Tracking and resolution of defects (JIRA)
• Identify risk, issues associated with the test plan, deliverables and escalate through channels as advised by the programme
• Ensure documentation in place to ensure traceability of user requirements, test scripts, test performance, test outcomes for potential audit review
• Provide input to resource allocation within Workstreams, ensuring UAT deliverables are prioritised
• Facilitate & manage NZ business requirements discussion with Group where defects require a Group solution change
• Manage Business Workstream requirements with the Build stream for local defects requiring data changes
• Provide guidance to Workstreams to ensure decisions are made and approved for Workstream business impacting items

 About you:

• Ability to lead a team of 5-10 and resolve issues as they arise
• Proven UAT Management background within large, complex organisations (ideally with finance and business systems - SAP, SAS, EDW etc.)
• Ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels
• Solid communication skills
• Resource Management ability
• Comfortable with data, data flows through multiple systems translated via mapping tables
• A high EQ
• A financial background would be a bonus

Join a great team on a huge programme of work!