Description: About us: Your opportunity: Your responsibilities will include:
- Monitoring department budget to ensure expenditures remain within budgeted allocations
- Processing payroll and accounts receivable/payable according to the University Guide to Financial Management
- Entering salary and/or personnel information in HRIS
- Troubleshooting and resolving payroll discrepancies
- Verifying that supporting documentation is attached to financial records before processing in FIS
- Preparing budget variance reports
- Generating standard financial reports
- Keeping well-informed on changes to policies, procedures, collective agreements, and applicable legislated requirements
Essential Qualifications:
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Advanced College Diploma (3 years) in Business/Accounting or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Bachelor's Degree preferred.
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Minimum three (3) years of recent and relevant experience processing financial and payroll transactions.
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Experience dealing with a large volume of transactions, customer service, and responding to inquiries in a professional manner.
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Prior experience applying organizational guidelines and procedures to financial activities.
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Experience in monitoring expenditures at a unit/departmental level, tracking, reconciling, and reporting on spending, recording detailed transactions on multiple accounts, including payroll and personnel information.
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Ability to prioritize and complete many competing demands in order to meet strict deadlines with keen attention to detail.
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Advanced skills with MS Office, including Excel and Word.
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Strong skills with SAP-based systems, including FIS and HRIS, or equivalent organizational systems.
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Must be highly service-oriented and possess strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work well in a team environment.
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Excellent written and oral communications skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to a variety of contacts.
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Excellent interpersonal skills with a superior customer service orientation and ability to deal tactfully, personably and effectively with staff, students, and all other stakeholders.
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Excellent organizational skills to maintain accurate records.
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Excellent time management skills.
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Demonstrated ability to identify and correct financial discrepancies.
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Demonstrated initiative, tact and good judgment as well as confidentiality.
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Experience with University policies and procedures.
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Familiarity with the complex Division of Student Life.
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Multi-tasker
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Organized
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Problem solver
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Resourceful
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Tactful
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Team player
Diversity Statement
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