Assistant Professor in Finance (tenure track)

Are you ready for a role that will help to create the future of finance? Then we invite you to apply for one of our newest faculty vacancies: tenure track Assistant Professor in the department of Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). This job starts on 1 September 2026.

When you join our team, you begin to cooperate with a dynamic and international department of dedicated educators and ambitious academics. Together you engage in top quality research and host specialised conferences and seminars.

In RSM’s department of Finance, you conduct world-class research in all areas of finance. As a team, we are responsible for the successful MSc programme in Finance and Investments, ranked by the Financial Times. Our department also contributes to RSM’s undergraduate, MBA and PhD programmes and to the MSc in Business Analytics & Management.

As a member of the Finance faculty, you regularly publish in the top journals in the field, such as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Management Science and Journal of Monetary Economics. You also cooperate with the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) via the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), for example, by presenting a joint seminar series. Together we regularly host impactful events, such as the Conferences on Professional Asset Management and the Liquidity Conferences. Additionally, you focus on research and education and on bringing out the positive change that enables people and organisations to thrive.

The RSM department of Finance offers finance programmes and courses for bachelor, master and executive students that address topics at the cutting edge of the field of finance. These include: sustainable finance and climate risk, corporate finance, asset management, credit risk, financial innovation, FinTech, entrepreneurial finance, and corporate governance.

Job description
Your job includes the following:

• Conduct high-quality research to be submitted to top journals in the field, such as Management Science, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, JFQA, and Review of Finance.
• Participate in workshops, seminars and conferences, which are supported by a personal research budget.
• Build an international network and gain visibility in the field.
• Develop your teaching skills by obtaining a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) during the first three years of your tenure track.
• Engage in teaching innovation, and teach courses in our bachelor and master programmes.
• Teach executive education classes (MBA, Executive MBA, open and custom programmes) in the second half of the tenure track, when applicable.
• Contribute to a pleasant atmosphere in the department and set up new initiatives.
• Engage with RSM’s mission to be a force for positive change in the world.

We’re interested in you when you:

• Possess a PhD in finance, or if you are in the final year of your PhD study.
• Can demonstrate the potential for outstanding achievements in research and teaching.
• Have a good command of the English language.
• A strong commitment to high-quality research, and evidence that you can conduct impactful work and publish in top finance journals.
• The ability to contribute to the department’s teaching activities at the level of bachelor, master and, when applicable, MBA.

We’re looking for you when you are:

• An inspired, ambitious and competent researcher, with a strong commitment to high-quality research.
• Enthusiastic about teaching.
• An able presenter.
• Familiar with online education platforms and have techniques for inspiring successful blended learning.
• Possess strong English language skills at C1 level (read, write, speak).
• A well-developed analytical thinker who is strong in communication and social competences.

We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU).

The starting date of this position is 1 September 2026 and you will be based at our Woudestein campus at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). This position is for 1 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge, and ranges from a minimum of € 4,728 to a maximum of € 7,297 gross per month, on a fulltime basis (38 hours) at scale 11 or 12 and in accordance with the CAO-NU.

Everything else we offer you; you can find below!

• Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centre!
• Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUR, FAME or QuEUR.
• Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget and free access to our university library.
• Good pension with ABP that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use.
• Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners, and our campus features a daycare (daycare not paid for by EUR).
• Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the expat ruling if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax services), and with our Dual Career Programme we will also help your partner find the right job for them.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 3,700 academics and professionals and almost 33,000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

Faculty / Institute / Central service
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. RSM provides ground-breaking research and education furthering excellence in all aspects of management and is based in the international port city of Rotterdam – a vital nexus of business, logistics and trade. RSM’s primary focus is on developing business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. Our first-class range of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes encourage them to become critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinkers and doers.
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RSM is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities, and nationalities.

The department of Finance at RSM offers a high-profile MSc in Finance & Investments, one of Europe’s largest master programmes in finance with 300+ new students every year. The programme delivers in-depth knowledge from theoretical and practical perspectives. Read more about it here: www.rsm.nl/fi

With its large, young and highly international faculty, educated at renowned institutions across Europe, the USA, and Asia, the RSM department of Finance has a strong teaching tradition and international orientation.