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Työnimike:
Tenure track Accounting Data Analytics in Business

Työnkuvaus:
Tenure track position in Accounting, Data Analytics in Business

The University of Vaasa is implementing its new research-focused strategy through a 10 million Euro investment programme over the coming 3-year period. We are building up our research capabilities by opening up to 20 new Tenure track positions. Our future-oriented investments create a highly dynamic and supportive research environment. For the successful applicants of these Tenure track positions, we can offer an excellent opportunity to build up a multifaceted academic career.

We are now inviting applications primarily for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure track) in Accounting. However, applicants for the position of Professor may also be considered. The level depends on the merits and career stage of the applicant.

Job abstractJV_description
The position is located in the School of Accounting and Finance and connected to the Digital Economy research platform. The research profile of this position focuses on accounting via data analytics, big data and artificial intelligence via combining accounting, information systems, and computer science. The scope is to combine digital technologies with business research objectives.

The core area of expertise of the candidate should be in accounting; expected areas of expertise and interests can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- accounting and corporate responsibility via data analytics, business intelligence, big data, information systems and artificial intelligence
- digitalisation in financial tasks of companies
- visualisation in business analytics
- challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology in accounting and finance across industries
- digitalisation in managerial accounting, financial accounting, and financial reporting practices
- data-driven performance measures
- using design science and interventionist approaches to accounting
- data-driven methods for creating and reporting economic, social and environmental values

We appreciate if you are already focused on some of the above areas of expertise, but we also hope you would direct your research towards some of them.

The scope of responsibilities will be determined according to the career stage of the successful candidate. The Tenure track position is research-oriented, but the appointed person will also participate in teaching, thesis supervision, and acquiring and managing externally funded research projects. The teaching and supervising duties of the position are connected to the Bachelor's Programme in Accounting and Finance, Master's Programme in Accounting and Auditing and the Doctoral Programme in Business Studies.

The research within the position is connected to the Digital Economy research platform at the University of Vaasa. The Digital Economy is a phenomenon-based, multidisciplinary open research platform focusing its activities on digital technologies and their impacts on businesses, individuals, and organisations. Research within the Digital Economy platform concentrates on digital transformation in industry and society. Topics include various aspects of data - generating, collecting, transferring, storing, analysing, managing, utilising, protecting, and securing. The platform impact will be realised through extensive research collaboration with other research institutes and universities, businesses, and public sector organisations. At the Digital Economy research platform you are at the forefront of the new digital society. For more information:
- www.univaasa.fi/fi/sites/digitaleconomy/ (in Finnish)
- www.univaasa.fi/en/sites/digitaleconomy/ (in English)

Please see the Particulars of appointment for more detailed information on the tasks, the selection criteria and process for filling the position:
- www.univaasa.fi/fi/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/particulars/tenure_track-tehtava-laskentatoimi-data-anylytiikka_liiketoiminnassa/ (in Finnish)
- www.univaasa.fi/en/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/particulars/tenure_track-tehtava-laskentatoimi-data-anylytiikka_liiketoiminnassa/ (in English)

Salary
The salary is based on the Finnish University Salary System for Teaching and Research Staff. A Professor's salary level is based on demand levels 8-10. The demand levels for an Associate Professor's position are 6-7 and an Assistant Professor's 5-6. An additional personal salary component is paid based on work performance (4-46,3%).

Tenure track at the University of Vaasa

The University's Tenure track procedure offers the recruited person an opportunity to advance to become a professor of their discipline. The selected candidate can advance to the next career stage provided that he/she succeeds in the regular evaluations of the Tenure track scheme. On the basis of the candidate's experience and competence, he/she may be employed for a fixed term as Assistant Professor (2-5 years) or Associate Professor (3-5 years). A person demonstrating particular merits and indisputably filling the qualification requirements may be appointed to the position of professor on a permanent basis.

More information about the Tenure track procedure and working with us: https://www.univaasa.fi/fi/rekry/hakuprosessi/yliopistoura/tenure_track_at_the_university_of_vaasa.pdf

How to apply

To apply for the position, please use our online application system (using the "Leave an application" button below). In order for us to process your application, please ensure that you fill in the application form and include all the attachments as specified in the Particulars of appointment. The application period ends midnight 30th August 2018 (Finnish time, GMT +3).

More Information:
- Starting date: as agreed.
- Relocation assistance is offered to candidates relocating from outside of Finland.
- The appointment is subject to the satisfactory completion of a trial period of 6 months.

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Työnantajan nimi: Vaasan yliopisto

source: TIVA