Director of Financial Systems

MIT • Cambridge, MA

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• experience with data architecture and data governance constructs, and issues

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in a related field
• Finance/Payroll Systems experience
• experience in ERP implementation
• experience in a complex not-for-profit setting
• experience with Oracle Cloud ERP

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director