Vice President, Head of Finance Systems

Join a great place to work with MissionSquare, a financial services corporation with approximately $79 billion in assets under management and administration and over 600 employees.

Founded in 1972, MissionSquare is dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees.

We focus on delivering results-oriented retirement and retiree health savings plans, education, investment options, personalized guidance, and related services to public sector participants in more than 9,200 plans and nearly 2 million participant accounts.

We strive to make the administration of retirement programs as easy and cost-effective as possible.

We have an extraordinary talent base and invite you to consider joining MissionSquare.

$217,110.00 - $347,370.00

The Vice President, Head of Finance Systems serves as the senior leader responsible for defining and delivering the systems, data, and capabilities that enable a faster, more scalable, and more strategic finance function.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, this role owns the finance systems roadmap and partners closely with Finance leadership, Corporate IT, and the business to modernize how finance operates, delivers insight, and builds capacity for higher‑value work.

The position translates finance strategy into a sequenced technology and operating model roadmap while balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term capability building.

This leader oversees the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of finance‑specific technologies and serves as Finance's primary interface with Corporate IT.

The role also leads and develops the finance systems delivery team while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Essential Functions for this role include:


* Own the end‑to‑end finance system strategy and multi‑year roadmap aligned to Finance transformation phases.


* Remain accountable for ERP, planning, reporting, data, analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled finance systems.


* Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend future investments.


* Lead the evolution of finance workflows by standardizing and simplifying processes before automation.


* Build and scale the Finance Systems organization, defining structure, roles, skills, development paths, and near‑term hiring or redeployment needs informed by skills and capacity assessments.


* Develop and lead a prioritized, iterative transformation roadmap and translate Finance priorities into sequenced initiatives balancing foundational and high‑impact use cases.


* Validate, refine, and govern the multiyear roadmap through a consistent operating cadence, including prioritized reviews, progress reporting, and communicating tradeoffs and outcomes to senior stakeholders.


* Assess the current‑state Finance landscape-including strategy, priorities, pain points, systems, data foundations, and inflight initiatives-in partnershi...