Financial Officer

Date Posted: 10/22/2024
Req ID: 40310
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: Budget, Planning & Finance
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00039867

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 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 Officer, you will be joining a team of Finance experts at Budget, Planning and Finance to provide the U of T Mississauga community with assistance and information on all aspects of finance, budgeting, financial systems and accounting. The U of T Mississauga community will trust you to be their true partner in all things Finance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Advising staff on accounting practices and University financial policies and procedures
• Transferring funds and expenditures within the context of an overall plan
• Liaising with internal contacts to resolve accounting, payroll and/or HRIS processing
• Identifying and resolving individual financial discrepancies
• Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
• Monitoring department budget to ensure expenditures remain within budgeted allocations
• Analyzing complex statistical reports and/or financial information for management decision-making
• Providing advice and data to support the development of business cases and analytics for departmental initiatives

Essential Qualifications:

• A university degree in commerce, business, or a related field with a focus on accounting, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required. A professional accounting designation, or active enrollment in a designation program, is preferred
• Minimum four (4) years of work experience in an accounting position
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial systems.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Advanced knowledge of spreadsheet applications and word processing software and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent time management skills.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Communicator
• Motivated self-learner
• Organized
• Proactive
• Team player

Closing Date: 11/04/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 13 -- $84,813. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $108,463. 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
 

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.