Date Posted: 07/22/2025
Req ID: 44407
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Centre for Entrepreneurship
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00049138

ABOUT US:

The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.
We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts & Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, commerce, accounting, finance, or an acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum four years of financial and business management experience, financial administration, financial analysis, updating and maintaining a budget model, forecasting, monitoring expenditure, reconciliation, payroll, and human resources activities.
• Minimum of four years’ experience managing a complex work unit, including financial oversight and administration. This includes planning and preparing detailed operating budgets, managing POS systems and research grants, forecasting and analyzing financial data, and preparing financial reports.
• Experience overseeing administrative operations including financial management, human resources administration, and processing financial and payroll transactions is required.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring and reconciling financial activity and payroll distribution, as well as producing financial statements
• Experience maintaining financial and personnel records, and with the University’s financial/payroll and HR policies, or other similar policies.
• Experience with policies and procedures related to academic and administrative collective agreements and other similar unionized groups.
• Experience working with procurement services, and negotiating terms and drafting contracts with external contractors and vendors.
• Advanced skills working in FIS and HRIS, or similar administrative systems.
• Demonstrated advanced skills in Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and databases.
• Excellent organizational, planning, and time-management skills, with ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Must demonstrate excellent communication skills, including active listening, clarity and conciseness
• Aptitude for numbers and analyses, be able tomulti-task, and has solid problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience handling highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion, ensuring strict compliance with confidentiality requirements.
• Experience supervising staff members

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

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Forecasting, planning and monitoring multiple complex budgets
• Making recommendations on budget allocations involving multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
• Monitoring department budget to ensure expenditures remain within budgeted allocations
• Applying the University Guide to Financial Management and other applicable policies, agency and regulatory requirements
• Implementing plans and process improvements for financial administration activities
• Processing and issuing invoices
• Processing payroll

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL BE:

• Accountable
• Communicator
• Meticulous
• Proactive
• Resourceful
• Team player