Finance Officer

Date Posted: 04/21/2025
Req ID: 42582
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Math/Comp. Sciences
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00040624

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible markon the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learningand discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongsidethe Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome thosewho want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

The Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences is an academic unit that includes mathematics, computer science and applied statistics. The administrative team works collaboratively to meet the needs of faculty, students, sessional instructors, and teaching assistants.
As the department’s Financial Officer, you will be regarded as the financial expert andoffer assistance and information on all aspects of finance, budgeting, financial systems and accounting. You will ensure that all financial matters comply with University policies and practices as well as those of the granting agencies. You will be integral in planning, forecasting, reporting and preparing financial analysis/reports to support decision making and the implementation of financial decisions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Forecastingand planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
• Monitoring, recording, reconciling and/or reporting on funding accounts for grants and contracts
• Applying the generally accepted accounting principles to financial tasks
• Processing expense reimbursements
• Ensuring research sponsor deadlines are met
• Analyzing information and making recommendations to inform budgetary decision making
• Keeping well-informedon purchasing and/or procurement policies and procedures
• Keeping well-informed on changes to policies, procedures, collective agreements, and applicable legislated requirements

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting, commerce, business or a related field with a specialization in accounting or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum three (3) years work experience in an financial position.
• Experience in budgeting and analysis, interpreting and applying policies, processing financial transactions, generating financial reports from a financial system, reconciling financial information, and forecasting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of advanced financial accounting, business finance, auditing and controls.
• Demonstrated ability to apply accounting and budgeting knowledge to effectively resolve financial issues, analyze financial information, identify pertinent issues and communicate financial information to individuals with little financial experience.
• Experience implementing agreements/contracts and interpreting and applying policies, guidelines and procedures, including collective agreements.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financialinformation systems, preference in SAP.
• Advanced knowledge of spreadsheet applications, word processing software and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent ability to prioritize and bring the appropriate sense of urgency to situations.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement, tact and initiative.
• Excellent time management skills and proven ability to recognize and handle confidential matters.
• Ability to work well with others as well as independently.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Knowledge of the University's Financial Information System (SAP) and/or budgeting and financial policies and procedures an asset.

To be successful in this role youwill be:

• Articulate
• Efficient
• Organized
• Proactive
• Problem solver
• Resourceful
• Self-directed

Closing Date: 05/04/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 11 -- $75,223. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $96,196. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Finance/Budget/Planning/Audit
Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.