About the role
Provides strategic leadership and oversight for the University's financial systems ecosystem, including FAST, future Finance ERP platforms, enterprise integrations, financial data architecture, and related business technologies. Responsible for directing the Financial Information Systems and Integrations team and ensuring reliable, secure, and effective operation of financial applications and connected business systems.
Serves as the University's business owner for enterprise financial systems and related financial business processes. Advises Finance Leadership on financial systems strategy, enterprise integration architecture, data governance, technology investments, and technology-enabled business transformation. Leads the evaluation, planning, implementation, and ongoing optimization of financial technologies while ensuring impacts across interconnected systems are identified, assessed, and managed.
Collaborates with University leadership, business stakeholders, Information Technology, and external vendors to align financial systems capabilities with institutional objectives and operational requirements. Maintains functional governance and business ownership of enterprise financial systems while partnering with Information Technology on technical architecture, security, infrastructure, integrations, and application delivery.
Strategic Financial Systems Leadership & Governance
- Provide strategic direction for the University's financial systems portfolio, including FAST, future ERP platforms, and related enterprise applications.
- Serve as the University's business owner for enterprise financial systems and related business processes, ensuring technology decisions align with financial operations, compliance requirements, internal controls, and institutional objectives.
- Advise Finance Leadership on system modernization initiatives, technology investments, enterprise architecture decisions, and digital transformation opportunities.
- Establish governance frameworks, strategic roadmaps, and operational priorities that support evolving business needs, regulatory compliance, and long-term institutional goals.
Enterprise Systems Architecture, Integrations & Change Management
- Lead governance and oversight of integrations among financial, human resources, payroll, budgeting, procurement, facilities, student, research, and other enterprise systems.
- Evaluate proposed system changes from an enterprise perspective, identifying upstream and downstream impacts to business processes, data flows, reporting, internal controls, compliance requirements, and operational effectiveness.
- Establish standards, documentation, and governance processes for system interfaces, data exchanges, and integration architecture.
- Lead impact assessments and change management activities for financial systems and interconnected business applications to ensure operational continuity and data integrity.
ERP Strategy, Implementation & Operational Excellence
- Provide leadership for future Finance ERP implementation, stabilization, enhancement, and ongoing support activities.
- Ensure alignment between ERP capabilities and University business requirements through collaboration with functional stakeholders, technical resources, and implementation partners.
- Oversee configuration, testing, deployment planning, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Establish service delivery standards, performance metrics, and support processes to ensure reliable and effective system operations.
- Identify opportunities to streamline business processes, improve automation, reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and enhance operational efficiency.
Data Governance, Reporting & Decision Support
- Provide leadership for financial data governance, master data management, chart of accounts structures, financial hierarchies, and reporting frameworks.
- Ensure consistency, integrity, security, and availability of financial information across enterprise systems.
- Partner with stakeholders to develop reporting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities that support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Promote effective use of financial data and technology solutions throughout the organization.
Organizational Leadership & Strategic Partnerships
- Direct and manage the Financial Information Systems and Integrations team, including strategic planning, staff development, performance management, workload prioritization, succession planning, and resource allocation.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Finance and Information Technology for financial applications, enterprise integrations, and technology initiatives.
- Partner closely with Information Technology to coordinate infrastructure, security, architecture, development, and support activities while maintaining Finance's functional ownership and governance responsibilities for financial systems, business requirements, priorities, configurations, and process design.
- Represent the business interests of the Finance organization in enterprise technology initiatives and ensure business requirements, internal controls, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity are appropriately reflected in technology decisions.
- Foster collaboration among business, technical, and executive stakeholders to advance institutional objectives and technology-enabled transformation.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and progressively responsible experience managing enterprise financial systems, ERP platforms, financial technology operations, systems integrations, and business process governance. Experience leading enterprise applications, data governance, technology support teams, and ERP implementations.
Degree Equivalency Clause: Four years of direct experience for a bachelor’s degree.
• Senate Bill 1310- The Florida Senate (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1310) is conditional upon meeting all employment eligibility requirements in the U.S.
• SB 1310: Substitution of Work Experience for Postsecondary Education Requirements
• A public employer may include a postsecondary degree as a baseline requirement only as an alternative to the number of years of direct experience required, not to exceed:
• (a) Two years of direct experience for an associate degree;
• (b) Four years of direct experience for a bachelor’s degree;
• (c) Six years of direct experience for a master’s degree;
• (d) Seven years of direct experience for a professional degree; or
• (e) Nine years of direct experience for a doctoral degree
• Related work experience may not substitute for any required licensure, certification, or registration required for the position of employment as established by the public employer and indicated in the advertised description of the position of employment.
• Minimum Qualifications that require a high school diploma are exempt from SB 1310.
The University of South Florida is a top-ranked research university serving approximately 50,000 students from across the globe at campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and USF Health. In 2025, U.S. News & World Report recognized USF with its highest overall ranking in university history, as a top 50 public university for the seventh consecutive year and as one of the top 15 best values among all public universities in the nation. U.S. News also ranks the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in the highest tier, placing it as one of the top 16 medical schools in the nation and inside the top 10 among public universities. USF is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group that includes only the top 3% of universities in the U.S. With an all-time high of $750 million in research funding in 2025 and as a top 20 public university for producing U.S. patents, USF uses innovation to transform lives and shape a better future. The university generates an annual economic impact of nearly $10 billion for the state of Florida. USF’s Division I athletics teams compete in the American Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.