Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Finance

The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for an Associate Professor in Finance position in Kuopio. The position is a Tenure Track position to be filled for a four-year term from August 1, 2025 (or as agreed). Please find more information below and submit your application no later than 19 March 2025.

Role and salary

As our new Associate Professor in Finance, you will be working in the Business School of UEF at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies. The position is located in Kuopio, Finland.

The position is attached to the Accounting and Finance research team at the University of Eastern Finland. The specific focus of this position is on corporate finance, approached from an
interdisciplinary perspective with special emphasis on accounting and university pedagogy.

As our new Associate Professor in Finance, your main responsibilities will include:
• conducting and promoting research in the field of finance,
• delivering teaching in finance,
• participate in the supervision of PhD students,
• acquisition of national and international research funding, and engagement in international research networks,
• taking part in the department’s/subject’s research projects and administrative tasks.

The position will be filled for a four-year term starting from August 1, 2025 (or as agreed). The position is filled for a fixed term due to it being a fixed-term research and teaching position (Tenure Track). A probationary period is applied to all new members of the UEF staff.

External expert review will be used in the filling of the position. After the experts have submitted their statements, the Appointments Committee preparing the recruitment will interview the applicant.

The salary of the position is determined in accordance with the salary system of the Finnish universities. The salary comprises two components: a job requirement component and a personal performance component. The Associate Professor position is based on level 7 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff (4,320.23 euros/month). The personal performance component can be a minimum of 6 % and a maximum of 50 % of the job requirement component.

The Associate Professor in Finance is a Tenure Track position. This means that at the end of your term, your merits and achievements will be evaluated to determine whether you can be promoted to the next level of the Tenure Track without public notice of vacancy. The criteria, objectives and results to be achieved during the term will be agreed with you in detail when signing the contract of employment. The university can promote an associate professor to a professorship on the basis of expert review.

Our requirements and expectations

Requirements
• A doctoral degree in finance, or in some other relevant field.
• Research expertise in finance, especially in corporate finance.
• A scientific publication record.
• Networks of collaboration and achievements in successful collaboration.
• Teaching experience and good teaching skills.
• Good skills in the English language and to be able to supervise students and give teaching in English.
• Experience in applying for research funding and in leading research and development projects.
• Management and interaction skills for leading teams, interdisciplinary research groups and networks.

As an advantage will be considered

• Especially outputs in the interaction of finance and accounting.
• Pedagogical studies and publications.

The evaluation of teaching skills follows the instructions of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, according to which the good teaching skills required for the post are primarily verified based on merits specified in the teaching portfolio. In addition to other application documents, the person invited to the post must submit a teaching portfolio compiled in accordance with the instructions. If the good teaching skills required for the post cannot be verified based on the teaching portfolio, the person proposed to the position may be invited to give a trial lecture. In connection to the evaluation of teaching skills and if otherwise considered necessary, the Appointments Committee may interview the applicant.

Your benefits

You will have access to the university’s staff benefits, including
• opportunity for flexible multi-location work
• extensive occupational health care
• staff discount on lunch in our campus restaurants, as well as on a range of other services,
• affordable sports services and tax-free bike benefit.

Please read more in the Work at UEF section on our website.

You will have an opportunity to work in an interesting/meaningful/diverse role as part of our international, creative, participatory and inclusive academic community.

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How to apply?

Submit your application by using our electronic application form no later than 19 March 2025 by 24:00 (midnight) Finnish time (UTC+2).

Please note that you must include the following appendices in your application:

• a resume or a curriculum vitae compiled in accordance with the template for researcher’s curriculum vitae of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (Template for a CV, TENK website)
• a complete list of publications compiled in accordance with the publication classification of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Instructions, the Research Council of Finland website)
• a portfolio of teaching merits, (Guidelines for Creating a Teaching Portfolio, PDF)
• a work plan (no more than 2 pages) in which the applicant is expected to describe the kind of research he or she will be carrying out over the next four years, if appointed to the position
• key publications (no more than 10) with which the applicant wishes to demonstrate his or her qualification and merits for the position
• a list of the selected publications (no more than 10)
• copies of your academic degree certificates / diplomas
• copies of certificates / diplomas relating to your language proficiency, if not indicated in the academic degree certificates / diplomas

The application with appendices (excluding publications) should be submitted in English.

Questions?

For further information on the position, please contact Professor Mervi Niskanen, tel. +358 40 3553958, mervi.niskanen@uef.fi.

Queries related to the application procedure should be addressed to Executive Head of Administration Marko Junkkarinen, tel. +358 29 445 8426, marko.junkkarinen@uef.fi or Senior HR Specialist Tuula Ranne, tel. + 358 29 445 5245, tuula.ranne@uef.fi.