Date Posted: 10/31/2025
Req ID: 45043
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Inst. for Management & Innovation
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00058599
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 anddiscovery. 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 theMissinihe-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 whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
Your opportunity:
The Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) is the center for professional management education at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and has a strong administrative team supporting our professional graduate programs and hubs. Reporting to the Director, Operations & Finance, the Financial Officer will support IMI's financial planning and operations by managing budgets, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with University policies and guidelines. This role collaborates with IMI's academic programs and hubs as a first point of contact for financial support and analysis.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Monitoring department budget to ensure expenditures remain within budgeted allocations
- Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
- Recording detailed transactions for many accounts including payroll
- Advising staff on accounting practices and University financial policies and procedures
- Identifying and analyzing data discrepancies and taking necessary actions to correct errors
- Reconciling payroll distribution
- Generating reports
- Keeping well-informed on changes to policies, procedures, collective agreements, and applicable legislated requirements
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in business or accounting, or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum three years, related experience, preferably in a University setting.
- Demonstrated experience processing financial transactions, and preparing financial reconciliations, analyses and providing recommendations.
- Experience compiling and organizing financial data.
- Experience interpreting and applying financial guidelines and procedures.
- Experience liaising and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency with MS Office Suite.
- Proficiency with SAP, including Financial Information System (FIS), Human Resources Information System (HRIS) and Research Information System (RIS), or similar systems.
- Strong organizational skills and an ability to work in a high volume environment that requires multi-tasking onvaried duties and an ability to prioritize effectively and work under pressure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Accuracy and attention to detail are critical.
- Ability to accurately interpret and apply guidelines, procedures and regulations in a variety of situations.
- Ability to professionally communicate complex financial procedures and financial information to non-financial staff and faculty.
- Ability to multi-task and anticipate demands in assignments and day-to-day work and adapt to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated initiative and self-motivation.
- Ability to exercise good judgement and tact in dealing with faculty, staff and students.
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Articulate
- Decisive
- Meticulous
- Organized
- Proactive
- Self-directed
Closing Date: 11/10/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $76,577. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $97,928. 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: Desiray Stewart
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.
