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Director of Financial Systems
  • Job Number: 25566
  • Functional Area: Finance/Accounting
  • Department: Office of the Vice President for Finance
  • School Area: VP for Finance
  • Pay Range Minimum: $208,115
  • Pay Range Maximum: $283,000
  • Employment Type: Full-time (Hybrid)
  • Employment Category: Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
  • Schedule:
  • Pay Grade: 14


Posting Description

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, Office of the Vice President for Finance (VPF), leads a team of business systems analysts and project managers responsible for VPF’s management of financial systems; maintains these systems alongside MIT Information Systems and Technology (IS&T); assists VPF units in responding to related questions from the MIT community and provides strategic direction for continuous improvement; leads professionals who provide desktop support for VPF and Human Resources and provides leadership for VPF reporting and analytic resources; and will also play a critical role as the Finance Workstream Lead for the implementation of Oracle ERP targeted for July 2028.

 

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in a related field; a minimum of ten years of professional financial systems experience in a complex organization; exhibit composure and confidence in stressful situations; expertise in business systems and process analysis, and project and change management to drive high-value process improvement projects; excellent written and oral communication skills; effective interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain working relationships with internal colleagues and stakeholders across the Institute; experience working with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite of software supporting a complex organization, preferably SAP, and best-in-class applications that interact with an underlying ERP or data warehouse architecture to enable key business functions, such as Concur, Coupa, Cognos, Tableau, and Salesforce; and experience with data architecture and data governance constructs, and issues. PREFERRED: Advanced degree in a related field; Finance/Payroll Systems experience; experience in ERP implementation; experience in a complex not-for-profit setting; or experience with Oracle Cloud ERP.

All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and resumes with cover letters should be sent electronically and in confidence to Isaacson, Miller at: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/massachusetts-institute-technology/director-financial-systems