Finance Integration Test Lead

Finance change depends on robust testing to protect data quality, business processes and reporting. As our Senior Test Lead - Finance, you will connect Finance with the central integration programmes, ensuring Finance testing requirements, dependencies and risks are understood and supporting end-to-end readiness for change.

You will lead programme relationships, dependency coordination and testing governance for Finance, working closely with the Finance UAT (User Acceptance Testing) & Enablement team and FST (Functional System Testing), SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT Managers, upstream delivery teams and third parties. You will represent Finance in programme planning and governance, helping teams gain the visibility they need to prepare for business acceptance testing.

You will also lead a reusable end-to-end Finance Data Lake testing strategy and plan and help develop practical UAT tools with a view to automation of the processes.

The role strengthens coordination and capability: SIT strategy and delivery remain owned by the SIT Manager, while UAT strategy and delivery remain owned by the UAT Manager and the UAT team retains strategic ownership.

As our Senior Test Lead - Finance, you will act as the primary interface between Finance and the central programme for Finance testing requirements, impacts and risks. You will represent Finance in programme governance and planning, coordinate engagement with upstream teams and third parties, and ensure Finance has sufficient visibility of upstream changes, testing activity and delivery plans. You will drive visibility and resolution of cross-functional dependencies affecting Finance delivery and testing, supporting end-to-end readiness and escalating delivery, testing and dependency risks through the appropriate programme channels. You will coordinate visibility and escalation of Finance defects, risks and issues through governance forums, while detailed defect management remains with the SIT and UAT delivery teams.

You will lead a reusable end-to-end Finance testing strategy for Data Lake deliveries, establishing clear testing boundaries and responsibilities across layers L0, 2.1 and 2.2. You will define how data lineage and traceability support testing, linking Finance requirements to source data, transformations, data products, test evidence and downstream consumption. Working with the SIT and UAT Managers, you will align this approach with their respective strategy and delivery accountabilities.

Working in partnership with Finance UAT & Enablement, you will explore automation of data testing, reconciliation, regression testing and evidence collection across Finance change. You will assess testing tools and approaches, identify where technology can strengthen capability, and develop successful proofs of concept into governed, maintainable capabilities aligned with the Finance testing strategy. You will support these improvements while preserving the UAT team's strategic ownership.

This is a 24-month Fixed Term Contract opportunity.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our London, Swindon or Glasgow office. If you're based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

As a minimum, you'll have/be:

• Experience leading or coordinating Finance test management across complex change programmes, multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of the distinct responsibilities of system integration testing (SIT), end-to-end testing and UAT, and the ability to work effectively within agreed ownership boundaries.
• Experience representing Finance testing requirements, impacts and risks in programme governance and planning forums and influencing senior stakeholders to ensure Finance can meet its risk-based testing deadlines.
• Experience coordinating upstream teams and third parties, managing cross-functional dependencies and escalating risks and blockers through appropriate programme channels.
• Experience developing end-to-end data testing strategies, defining testing boundaries and responsibilities across Data Lake layers and downstream Finance consumption.
• Practical experience assessing testing tools and opportunities to automate data validation, reconciliation, regression testing or evidence collection.
• A collaborative approach to building reusable Finance testing capability and supporting UAT teams without duplicating their strategic or delivery accountabilities.
• Comfortable operating at programme leadership level, using sound judgement to prioritise testing activity, resolve complex issues and maintain momentum across multiple delivery teams.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

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• Push for better - We don't settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 30 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub - access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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As a mutual, we're owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don't see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you're one of us.

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Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Finance Manager - System & Change.