Job Description

Date Posted: 01/17/2025
Req ID: 41336
Faculty/Division: VP - University Operations
Department: OREP Financial Strategy & Services Dept
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00056580Description:About us:Operations and Real Estate Partnerships Division (OREP) is the largest shared service division at the University of Toronto, providing a wide range of services to the University and serving three campuses. OREP is responsible for several key portfolios within the University, including Information Technology Services, Facilities and Services, University Planning Design & Construction, and Spaces & Experiences. We strive to provide efficient and effective services that support the University's mission of knowledge creation, educational program delivery and community service. OREP Financial Strategy and Services Department works closely with other departments, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to manage OREP's financial resources, enhance operational efficiency, and improve financial management capacity. The Finance Department ensures compliance, provides strategic advice, enhances support for the decision-making process, manages risks, optimizes financial processes, adopts new technologies, improves existing systems, and promotes best practices.Your opportunity:As the Capital Analyst in the department, reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, you will be responsible for supporting the financial management of the capital portfolio, including both revenue and expenses. You will coordinate financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for the portfolio department, supporting management's decision-making by analyzing complex financial data, building financial models, generating periodic reports, identifying risks, developing options, and proposing recommendations. In this role, you will work with both internal and external stakeholders, serving as the primary point of contact for client inquiries. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in implementing technology solutions and facilitating process improvements to optimize operations.Your responsibilities will include:

• Analyzing complex statistical reports and/or financial information for management decision-making
• Analyzing actual expenditures in comparison to budget and preparing reports for financial planning and funding terms compliance
• Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
• Performing complex financial data modeling and analysis
• Making recommendations on budget allocations involving multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries
• Preparing project expense/revenue modeling, forecasting cost-to-completion and financial tracking
• Researching, analyzing and recommending potential changes to system features
• Retrieving information from multiple sources of data

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting or business administration or acceptable combination ofequivalent experience. CPA designation or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of recent and related experience in a financial position.
• Experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, particularly related to capital projects.
• Experience monitoring department budgets and analyzing financial trends.
• Experience in capital project funding model and cash flow projection.
• Experience in reconciling capital accounts.
• Experience in providing advice and data to support the development of business cases and analytics for departmental initiatives.
• Experience in preparing and preparing budgets, variance reports, financial planning information.
• Experience in conducting financial analysis, working with databases, creating and maintain financial models, proposing effective strategies, and producing complex reports.
• Ability to interpret and apply complex accounting principles and experience in audit processes.
• Ability to work effectively independently and as an integral member of a team.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Demonstrated strong client service orientation.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience working with a SAP-based system.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Diligent
• Goal oriented
• Meticulous
• Organized
• Team player

Closing Date: 01/30/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 14 -- $90,056. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $115,169. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Finance/Budget/Planning/AuditLived 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.All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.Diversity StatementThe University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission.As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see .Accessibility StatementThe University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact .

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