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# Director of Financial Systems

- **Company:** Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $208,115.0 - $283,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Systems, Information Systems, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Warehousing, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, Salesforce.Com, SAP (Applications), Tableau (Software), Coupa Procurement, Oracle Erp, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** June 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g8ja54

## About the Role

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.

## 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.


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