The City of Springfield is seeking an accomplished, forward-thinking financial leader who finds pathways to success to serve as its Chief Financial Officer/Director of Finance.

Springfield is Missouri's third-largest city and sits in the fastest-growing region in the state, making this an exciting time to join the City of Springfield Leadership Team. Under the City Manager's strategic direction, the City is entering an era of modernization, streamlining, and process reengineering focused on greater efficiency and organizational effectiveness. This work is about more than improving individual processes. It reflects a broader vision for a fiscally sound future - and the strategies, systems, and disciplined choices required to get us there. The next Chief Financial Officer/Director of Finance will have an opportunity to help shape that future. Change agents and culture builders who can pair responsible stewardship with thoughtful transformation will thrive here.

This is an opportunity to do more than manage the finances of a major municipal organization. Springfield is looking for a leader who can help shape the City’s financial future—strengthening long-term sustainability, modernizing financial systems and practices, improving how work gets done, and giving City leaders the information and insight needed to make sound decisions for the community.

The next Chief Financial Officer will inherit the essential responsibility of protecting the City’s financial integrity while also helping lead meaningful organizational change. If you are a financial leader who values public service, sees opportunities where others see longstanding processes, and can balance innovation with responsible stewardship, we invite you to consider Springfield. The leader we are seeking is more than a technically accomplished finance professional. We are looking for an executive leader. The successful candidate will bring financial expertise together with curiosity, judgment, courage, humility, and an ability to build trusted relationships.