Date Posted: 05/01/2025
Req ID: 42748
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: Budget, Planning & Finance
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00057937
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 Senior Financial Officer, you will be working closely with various departments across UTM to ensure that business transactions are aligned with general accepted accounting principles and the University's financial policies. You will also be involved in complex financial analysis. You will be bring a strong understanding of accounting principles and be able to apply them to various issues. You will also possess superior verbal and written communication skills and a high level of professionalism.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Interpreting and applying policies and procedures when making independent decisions
- Forecasting and 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
- Identifying and resolving individual financial discrepancies
- Applying the University Guide to Financial Management and other applicable policies, agency and regulatory requirements
- Overseeing the financial management of budgets that include strategic planning, analysis and forecasting
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in accounting or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
- Minimum five years relevant financial budget and accounting experience
- Demonstrated experience with budgets, forecasts and variance analysis
- Experience dealing with various levels in the organization
- Strong ability to identify critical issues and problem solve independently
- Excellent attention to detail
- Advanced computer skills: Microsoft Office: Excel (Advanced formula & functions, pivot tables), Word, Power point
- Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- SAP experience an asset
- Demonstrated cost accounting experience an asset
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Accountable
- Goal oriented
- Motivated self-learner
- Organized
- Problem solver
- Team player
Closing Date: 05/15/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 15 -- $95,627. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $122,290. 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: Marien Ponce
This is a term position for 12 months
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.
