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Director of Financial Systems

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks a strategic, collaborative, and forward-thinking leader to serve as its next Director of Financial Systems. Reporting directly to the Vice President for Finance (VPF), this role offers a rare opportunity to shape and modernize the financial systems that support MIT’s world-class education, research, and innovation enterprise and make a lasting impression on the Institute.

As MIT enters a significant period of strategic investment in systems modernization, the Director of Financial Systems will play a critical role serving as the Finance Workstream Lead for the Oracle Cloud ERP implementation. The Director of Financial Systems will advance the Institute’s long-term financial infrastructure, ensuring that financial systems are resilient, scalable, and aligned with the evolving needs of a complex, global institution.

The successful candidate will be an adept change manager who can navigate a highly complex and decentralized environment, generate buyin across diverse units, and clearly communicate the vision and goals of system transformation. The Director of Financial Systems will need to leverage strategic thinking and vision to guide the project through to a successful completion and craft a new support model for Oracle ERP’s maintenance into the future. Strong team management will be essential to ensure staffing and support structures sustain ongoing operational responsibilities with added commitments associated with the Oracle ERP project. Additionally, the Director of Financial Systems oversees desktop support, project managers, analysts, and business intelligence and must ensure that these functions are providing the highest levels of service across VPF and the wider Institute.

Screening of complete applications will begin immediately and continue until the completion of the search process. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, and CVs with cover letters should be submitted electronically below.

https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/massachusetts-institute-technology/director-financial-systems

MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.