Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Finance and Accounting

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Job Summary

The Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty position starting Fall 2025, at the Assistant Professor level, from scholars who work in areas at the cutting edge of finance and accounting. Candidates with experience in quantitative methods including AI, machine learning, and data analytics are preferred.

Candidates must have a PhD degree in a relevant business discipline from an accredited university along with demonstrated evidence of producing original and innovative scholarly work, preferably with publications in premier finance and accounting journals. The successful candidate will join the Lally School of Management as a tenure-track assistant professor. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated potential and commitment to effective teaching in our graduate and undergraduate courses in basic and advanced topics in accounting and finance, as well as provide service to the Lally School of Management and to Rensselaer. The normal teaching load is 2-2.

The areas of research interest include, but are not limited to, finance and accounting. We have a particular interest in candidates that possess strong analytic skills applied to cutting-edge investments and accounting topics and to a lesser extent corporate finance. The preferred candidate is expected to be an active participant in the Lally School of Management’s student managed investment fund. Experience in and a deep knowledge of the financial services and/or accounting industry would be a plus. Familiarity with unique datasets or experimental platforms would also be a plus.

We are expanding the Lally School’s renowned finance and accounting teaching and research portfolios, as well as the technical collaboration of the NSF-funded Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technology (CRAFT) with the Institute’s constellations on AI and ML through financial technology applications. The Lally School of Management provides an intellectually stimulating and collaborative environment for inter-disciplinary scholarly contributions with support for research, teaching, and service. We are seeking an outstanding candidate who is driven and willing to engage with the vibrant, diverse and inclusive cross-disciplinary research community at Rensselaer.

Prospective candidates must possess demonstrated potential to produce original and innovative scholarly work of the highest possible quality with impact in the top academic journals. Evidence of effective teaching, and the ability to demonstrate, through accomplishment, promise of academic, scholarly and/or research achievement 

Starting Salary/Rate

Expected hiring range: $XX - $XX

Pay transparency disclosure: The selected candidate’s salary will be determined based on factors that include the available budget, internal equity, and the final candidate’s qualifications, experience, education and other job-related credentials. This hiring range is provided as Rensselaer’s good faith estimate of the expected hiring range at the time of posting.

Application instructions

Follow the on-screen prompts to create a brief online profile, including contact information for three (3) professional references. Please be ready to upload:

• Cover Letter
• CV
• Research statement
• Statement of teaching evidence of effective teaching
• Diversity statement

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