Financial Assistant (Term)

Date Posted: 07/15/2025
Req ID: 44269
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: Budget, Planning & Finance
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00041851

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 humanpotential.

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 mark on 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 learning and 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, alongside the 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 those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

As a Financial Assistant, you will be working closely with various departments across UTM to ensure business transactions are alignedwith the general accepted accounting principles, the University’s financial and purchasing guidelines as well as funding policies. You will bring a strong understanding of financial management, analysis and auditing, and a high degree of professionalism and customer service to facilitate the achievement of these goals.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Recording detailed transactions for many accounts
• Preparing and/or processing journal entries
• Generating standard financial reports
• Applying the University Guide to Financial Management and other applicable policies, agency and regulatory requirements
• Verifying the accuracy and completeness of information
• Responding to enquiries within the defined scope of the role and redirecting as appropriate
• Identifying and resolving individual financial discrepancies

Essential Qualifications:

• Advanced College Diploma (3 years) or acceptable combination of equivalent experience in Commerce or related field with a specialization in Accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience including recording financial transactions (accounts payable, accounts receivable, journal entries) using a computerized information system.
• Experience dealing with a large volume of transactions, customer service, and responding to inquiries in a professional manner
• Solid understanding of accounting, purchasing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, internal controls, and HST
• Good understanding of the concepts involved in forecasting and variance analysis, and internal recoveries.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial accounting, management accounting, accounting software applications, and finance & business communications.
• Ability to quickly master system skills, including ability to quickly gain a good understanding of systems
• Strongwritten, verbal, and interpersonal skills are required
• Substantial working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential, including the ability to consolidate and link multiple spreadsheets and to use advanced functions and formulas
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage deadlines.
• Highly professional approach, use of tact, superior organizational skills, ability to work with minimal error under pressure, good judgment, initiative, flexibility, ability to deal in an effective and cooperative manner with a variety of people.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work independently and also collaboratively in a team environment.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Problem solver
• Team player

This position is a one year term opportunity.  

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.

Closing Date: 07/27/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 09 -- $66,715. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $85,319. 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: Monica Seymour

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.