66 finance jobs found in Boston, MA

The Director of Finance (DOF) is a key member of the departmental leadership team, responsible for all department finances (school, sponsored, gift, and other funds) and financial operations (accounting, procurement, accounts payable, and award compliance). Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), the DOF partners with colleagues across functions to manage financial risk, close operational gaps, and improve financial processes – while playing a central role in departmental strategic planning. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Sponsored Research Administration/Compliance Review and approve all sponsored proposals: ensure budget accuracy and compliance with local, school, University, and sponsor policies; flag concerns or planning/capacity needs pre-submission, advise team and faculty on best practice. Oversee all post-award reporting and compliance with award terms; ensure faculty receive timely financial updates, analysis, and projections; closely monitor the department’s...

Job Summary: The mission of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery and communication. To pursue the mission, the school produces knowledge through research then translates this knowledge into evidence that can be communicated to the public, policymakers, and practitioners to advance the health of populations. The Office of Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) supports the School's mission by serving as a central resource for the research community through the provision of expertise and leadership in obtaining and managing research funds. It acts as the institutional representative of the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the administration of sponsored projects for the school. SPA is comprised of research administrators that work in partnership with faculty to review and submit proposals for funding and to ensure that proposals and then awards conform and are managed according to sponsor...

Job Summary: The Senior Finance Associate provides advanced financial, transactional, and compliance support for academic departments and centers within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Operations, this role manages day-to-day financial operations, supports departmental budgeting and financial reporting, ensures compliance with university and sponsor policies, and serves as a resource to faculty and staff on financial procedures. Working independently and in collaboration with colleagues in the departments they support and across the FAS Office of Finance, the Senior Finance Associate oversees complex financial transactions, monitors departmental finances, prepares financial analyses and reports, and helps ensure the responsible stewardship of university resources.  Given the breadth and diversity of financial operations across the academic enterprise, the Senior Finance Associate may perform additional financial, operational, and...

Job Summary: The Finance Associate provides foundational financial, transactional, and compliance support for academic departments and centers within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Operations, this role supports day-to-day financial operations, ensures accurate processing of transactions, and assists faculty and staff with university financial procedures. Working with their manager, the Finance Associate is responsible for procurement review, travel and expense processing, accounts receivable, cash handling activities, and transactions associated with year-end close while developing knowledge of university financial systems and policies.  Given the breadth and diversity of financial operations across the academic enterprise, the Finance Associate may perform additional financial, operational, and administrative responsibilities that are consistent with the scope and level of the position but are not specifically listed in this...

Job Summary: Responsible for comprehensive financial administration, budgeting and operations. Provide management with analysis and reporting. Advise on financial planning. Job-Specific Responsibilities: The Assistant Finance Director serves as the primary financial advisor for a large complex academic department or center or group of units within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Reporting to the Divisional Finance Manager aligned to the academic division, with a dotted line to the academic leader(s) for the unit(s), this role partners closely with faculty, program leaders, and senior administrators to provide strategic financial leadership that advances academic and operational priorities.   The Assistant Finance Director is responsible for the comprehensive financial management of a highly complex portfolio, overseeing significant operating budgets and multiple funding sources, including sponsored and non-sponsored funds, endowments, gifts, unrestricted resources, and...

Job Summary: Responsible for comprehensive financial administration, budgeting and operations. Provide management with analysis and reporting. Advise on financial planning. Job-Specific Responsibilities: The Assistant Finance Director serves as the primary financial advisor for a medium-sized, semi-complex academic department or center or group of units within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Reporting to the Divisional Finance Manager aligned to the academic division, with a dotted line to the academic leader(s) for the unit(s), this role partners closely with faculty, program leaders, and senior administrators to provide strategic financial leadership that advances academic and operational priorities.   The Assistant Finance Director is responsible for the comprehensive financial management of a complex portfolio, overseeing significant operating budgets and multiple funding sources, including sponsored and non-sponsored funds, endowments, gifts, unrestricted resources,...

The FAS Divisional Technology Partner: Administration & Finance and Faculty Affairs Divisions will partner with divisional leadership to align technology investments with priorities, leads demand planning and prioritization within governance frameworks, and represents divisional needs in enterprise decision-making while coordinating solutions, managing escalations, and supporting effective issue resolution. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Duties and Responsibilities:   Document local FAS technology needs and gather feedback on IT systems and services.  Manage IT investment request intake.  Partner with FAS divisional leadership to align technology investments with academic and operational priorities, ensuring IT initiatives are prioritized and/or funded within defined governance guardrails and resource budget.    Facilitate FAS divisional demand planning, including IT roadmap development and shared visibility into intake, portfolio tradeoffs, and resource capacity....

The Harvard Law School Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies (“Program”) offers students the opportunity to integrate law, leadership, and life through the study, debate, and application of the teaching of the Bible. We help students connect learning with conviction, inquiry with relationships, ideas with character, research with hope, gifts with purpose, and values with action. We seek to inspire confidence in biblical law as a source of truth powerful enough to meet global challenges, yet personal enough to inspire individual purpose.   The Program seeks an experienced, highly motivated, exceptionally organized, and technically savvy individual to perform a wide range of complex and confidential tasks to plan and execute Program initiatives and events. Excellent management and communication skills are required for responsibilities that include planning of Program events, collaboration with Program affiliates and donors, financial administration and budgeting,...

Job Summary: The Patient Services Representative interacts extensively in-person, via telephone, and through email with patients, colleagues, the public, healthcare providers, and other Harvard Dental Center personnel. As a first point of contact, the position requires excellent customer service skills, broad-judgment, independent thinking, and problem solving. The Patient Services Representative will support the Harvard Dental Center with responsibilities of answering, screening and processing incoming calls, scheduling appointments, front desk functions including check-in and check-out, updating demographic, billing, and insurance information, payment collections and processing. Essential Responsibilities: Answers, screens, and processes incoming calls and emails in a professional manner. Directs patient access to the Harvard Dental Center by greeting, check-in and check-out, processing payments, registration, verification of demographic and fiscal information, and...

Harvard Business School (HBS) is seeking multiple quantitative and/or qualitative/writing-based Research Associates starting immediately to support assigned faculty members leading projects across a variety of business topics including: Harvard Business School AI Institute  - The Harvard Business School AI Institute uses real-world experimentation and rigorous research to shape how artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and innovation redesign business, science, and society. Managing the Future of Work and US Competitiveness Project - Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action to navigate this complex landscape. The Project’s current research areas focus on six forces that are redefining the nature of work in the United States as well as in many other advanced and emerging economies. The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort to understand and improve...

Harvard Business School (HBS) is seeking multiple Predoctoral Research Associates starting in Summer 2027 to support an assigned faculty member in one of the following academic units.  Accounting & Management Business, Government and the International Economy Entrepreneurial Management Finance General Management Marketing Negotiation Organizations & Markets Organizational Behavior  Strategy  Technology and Operations Management Research subjects can include but are not limited to: labor economics, marketing economics, private equity / venture capital disclosures and taxation, decision making and gender stereotypes in shaping beliefs, industrial organization and the market design of digital platforms, media economics and economics of digital platforms, emerging financial technologies and alternative data, political economy and empirical corporate finance, R&D strategy and the economics of innovation, entrepreneurial management, corporate social...

Are you excited by the idea of joining a world-class organization at the intersection of higher education and business? As the professors’ administrative assistant, Faculty Support Specialists provide valuable tactical and administrative help to our faculty in support of Harvard Business School's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. Reporting to a Manager of Unit and Faculty Support the Faculty Support Specialist (FSS) supports faculty with complex administrative duties related to their teaching, research, and other responsibilities. An FSS will act as a seamless extension of the faculty they support and will work closely with other Faculty Support Specialists across ten academic units, as well as with their manager. Faculty Support Specialists also work with and assist peers on activities that support teaching, research, finance, and other departments. We are actively seeking multiple Faculty Support Specialists and encourage you to apply today!...

The Associate Director of Student Funding provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for the administration of student funding programs for HMS Office for Graduate Education (OGE), including PhD and master’s students enrolled in OGE-administered academic programs. Responsible for developing and implementing policies, systems, and business processes that ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient administration of tuition, stipend, fellowship, and other student funding. Serving as the institutional expert on student funding operations, the Associate Director leads the design and implementation of new funding workflows in support of evolving institutional priorities, including a new funding model for PhD students at HMS affiliate hospitals. The position also leads the modernization of student funding systems by defining business requirements, partnering with University Information Systems and other stakeholders on system selection and implementation, and improving...

Job Summary: The candidate will join Dr. Karestan Koenen’s Population Mental Health (PMH) Lab to support various research initiatives focused on trauma, mental health, and population genetics. Under the supervision of Dr. Koenen and Dr. Shaili Jha, this Project Coordinator role will serve a dual function providing clinical project coordination for ongoing research studies and administrative and operational support for the broader lab. This role will provide clinical coordination support for study activities, including participant recruitment, interviews, data collection, coding, and analysis. Additionally, this position will support lab operations including finance processing, website updates, grant submissions, event coordination, and other administrative needs for Dr. Koenen and the lab leadership. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: Participant Coordination & Clinical Data Collection: Assist in...

Job Summary: Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis is responsible for the financial management, budgeting, and strategy of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Leading a team of 3 financial analysts, the Director is responsible for the development of the School’s $400M+ annual operating budget, multi-year financial plan, monthly forecasts, and management reporting, as well as frequent ad hoc analyses. A key member of the Office of Financial Services leadership team, the Director partners closely with the CFO, and regularly engages with administrative and departmental leaders across the Chan School. The Director plays a critical role in shaping the School’s financial strategy, providing actionable insights to inform resource allocation, investments, and long-range planning in support of the research and teaching mission. This role is highly visible and requires the ability to translate complex financial information...

Job Summary: The Research Manager, AI will support research at the HBS AI Institute at Harvard  by being the in-house expert on research compliance, finance, and other policies leveraging AI tools to navigate these areas. The Research Manager will report to the HBS AI Institute Director of Research Services. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Configures, co-develops, and uses AI tools to support faculty principal investigators and researchers developing required research documentation, such as Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, data use agreement (DUA) exhibits, scopes of work (SOW), and budgets, with the goal of accelerating approval by delivering better first drafts to HBS and Harvard research administration. Identifies additional opportunities for use of agentic AI and other tools to streamline compliance workflow and develops strategy for deployment and adoption by HBS AI Institute and other HBS faculty. Partners with HBS Division of Research and Faculty...

Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD) The mission of Harvard Business School (HBS) is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. Within HBS, by providing unparalleled faculty support, the DRFD helps to build and develop the faculty; and facilitates the creation of enduring knowledge that shapes both business scholarship and the practice of business. As the School’s largest administrative department, the DRFD houses approximately 350 full-time and part-time staff members. As a premier service organization, and in collaboration with colleagues across the School, DRFD staff deliver high-touch, customized support to the faculty, demonstrating solid judgment and high standards of responsiveness and professionalism. Case Research and Writing Group (CRG) Within the DRFD, the CRG’s mission is to support faculty by providing high quality, high value, efficient and innovative case research, development, and writing. Case Researchers support HBS faculty...

The Assistant Director (AD) of Sponsored Programs provides operational leadership for the HMS OGE’s sponsored programs portfolio, supporting externally funded graduate education and training programs across OGE-administered PhD and master’s programs. Reporting to the Director of Financial Operations, this position oversees the day-to-day administration of sponsored awards. The position serves as a trusted advisor to faculty, principal investigators, program leadership, and administrative staff. Working with the Associate Director of Student Funding, ensures that sponsored awards supporting graduate student funding are administered in a coordinated, compliant, and efficient manner while maintaining clear ownership of sponsored programs and student funding responsibilities.  Job-Specific Responsibilities: Sponsored Programs Leadership:   Supervise and mentor two Senior Grants Managers, providing coaching, workload management, performance evaluations, and professional...

The Manager of Financial Planning and Operations manages the day-to-day financial operations of HMS Graduate Education (OGE) and serves as the primary financial partner for OGE's master's and PhD programs. Reporting to the Director of Financial Operations, the Manager is responsible for annual budget development, ongoing budget administration, financial reporting, reconciliations, transaction review, and operational financial management across OGE. The Manager supervises the Finance Coordinator and oversees transactional financial activities including purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, travel and expense processing, and financial approvals. The position serves as the primary financial contact for program leadership, meeting regularly with academic and administrative leaders to monitor budgets, resolve financial issues, and ensure effective stewardship of program resources. Working closely with the Assistant Director of Sponsored Programs and Associate Director of...

Job Summary: The Nutrition and Global Health Program in the Department of Global Health and Population, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated Research and Program Coordinator with a public health background and strong research and quantitative skills to join its team to contribute to the strategic development and implementation of the program's research activities. The program is conducting several global health research and training projects with partners in resource limited settings in sub- Saharan Africa and Asia. The program's research focus includes global health priorities including maternal, child and adolescent health, and infectious diseases, with emphasis on nutrition and food systems. Working closely with the Program's faculty, senior managers and in coordination with program partner institutions, this position will be supporting a wide range of activities within the program including proposal development, manuscripts...

The Center Programming Manager serves as the principal contact and administrative organizer for all programming and non-degree educational programs in the Center for Bioethics and supports the Responsible Conduct of Research program.  It includes a broader strategy for collecting and maintaining data to produce reports on program participation, marketing responses, and program evaluations.  Reporting to the Associate Director of Finance and Operations, this role will coordinate across Center staff and faculty to ensure clear program objectives, effective program design aligned to objectives, smooth operations and implementation, clear communication, and alignment of key stakeholders on appropriate educational aims, program development and organization, and operational details. This position requires hands-on implementation, follow-through, and proactive communication. Non-Degree Certificate Programs Has direct administrative responsibility for the non-degree certificate programs...

Job Summary:  The Registrar provides strategic, operational, and service leadership for all registrar functions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Registrar oversees academic records, registration and enrollment, course and classroom scheduling, grading, degree certification, and compliance with University, School, and external regulations. Working within a decentralized academic environment, the Registrar serves as a key connector across academic departments, central University partners, and offices within the Student Services division. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Student Services, the Registrar is a key member of the Student Services leadership team and a critical partner to faculty, departmental administrators, and colleagues across the School and University. This role is responsible for managing a skilled and experienced team, including direct supervision of two Senior Associate Registrars and seven total professional and administrative staff,...

DBMI is a community of creative scholars, talented scientists and dedicated staff focused on advancing Harvard Medical School's research, teaching and service missions. The focus of research in DBMI is the application of computational reasoning to advancing health care, with special emphasis on cutting-edge technologies such as AI. The department is looking for a creative and accomplished individual to drive the execution of the department’s goals, raising the profile of the department internally and externally, supporting the Chair and the faculty in identifying and recruiting new faculty, developing a productive and supportive culture within the department and advancing excellence in both research and teaching.  Key Accountabilities Provide strategic leadership for departmental research administration, overseeing the full portfolio of research-related activities and ensuring alignment with the department’s academic and research priorities. Serve as the senior research...

Reporting to the Director, Educational Programs and Accreditation, this role is a strategic partner in advancing HMS Continuing Education priorities and goals, and also provides operational, programmatic and administrative leadership and guidance to the HMS Continuing Education program and sustains its Joint Accreditation with Commendation.   The Associate Director collaborates with HMS Course Directors, Course Administrators, and departmental staff to plan and implement accredited continuing education activities that meet standards and regulations established by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and Joint Accreditation (JA) criteria while supporting the office mission and vision. These activities include, but are not limited to, HMS accredited live conferences, online CME, enduring materials, Regularly Scheduled Series and Performance Improvement CME.  The Associate Director also ensures that MyCE, HMS’s accreditation management software, aligns...