Senior Financial & Operations Analyst

Date Posted: 06/16/2025
Req ID: 43582
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Office of the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00055966

Description:

About us:

Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.

Your opportunity:

The Office of the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer provides financial expertiseto senior leaders required to support the achievement of the Faculty’s strategic goals and objectives. Comprised of an accomplished team of strategic-minded specialists, the office serves as a hub between departments and the University’s central financial portfolios, provides support, guidance and training to departments on financial matters, and oversees revenue sharing distributions.

As Senior Financial and Operations Analyst, you will support a broad complement of financial management activities, including financial modeling, analysis, and reporting. You will have a critical eye on policies, procedures, and practices, to help inform strategic planning and decision making. You will additionally serve as the first point of contact for all central operational requests, including but not limited to, telecommunications, security access and vendor management. Your versatility, ability to work independently and as part of a highly cohesive team will allow you take on new projects to ensure and promote optimal function of our office.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the financial management of budgets, including strategic planning, forecasting and analysis
• Interpreting policies in decision-making and providing significant input into local policies, procedures and practices that are referred to in future interpretation questions
• Planning and overseeing short- and long-range activities that support financial administration
• Performing complex financial data modeling and analysis, including analyzing and producing complex statistical reports and/or financial information for management decision-making
• Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and completion of a recognized accounting program (CPA), or an acceptable equivalent combinationof education and experience
• Minimum 5 years' related financial experience in modeling, analysis, and financial reporting, in a University, or similar public sector environment
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets and strategic planning
• Experience processing payroll transactions, including faculty appointments
• Experience processing financial transactions
• Procurement experience required, including reviewing competitive procurement process
• Experience working with spreadsheets, analyzing financial data and statistics and producing complex reports
• Experience in bringing innovative solutions and processes to create efficiencies in financial management
• Experience liaising with vendors and coordinating operational requests, including telecommunications and security access
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office Suite, including expert knowledge of MS Excel and Financial Information System (FIS) and Human Resources Information System (HRIS)
• Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge of accounting principles
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly attentive to detail and accuracy
• Demonstrated ability to organize and execute complex projects and manage conflicting priorities within established timelines
• Ability to work independently as well as a collaborative team member in a multistakeholder environment
• Strong client service orientation
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, respectmatters of a sensitive nature and maintain confidentiality

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience dealing with Medicine Professional Corporation (MPC), including HST treatment

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Insightful
• Problem solver
• Procedural
• Team player
  
  
  

Closing Date: 06/30/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 17 -- $107,820. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $137,883. 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: Dinuka Perera

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.