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Financial Assistant

2 months ago

Mississauga, Canada University of Toronto Full time

**Date Posted**:03/25/2024
**Req ID**: 36644
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: Budget, Planning & Finance
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00044727

**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 Financial Assistant, you will be working closely with the various departments across UTM to ensure business transactions are aligned with the general accepted accounting principles, the University’s financial and purchasing guidelines as well as funding policies. You will bring a strong understanding of financial management, analysis and auditing, and a high degree of professionalism and customer service to facilitate the achievement of these goals.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Preparing and/or processing journal entries
- Generating standard financial reports
- Processing expense reimbursements
- Identifying and resolving individual financial discrepancies
- Analyzing and recommending improvements to financial processes and procedures
- Responding to enquiries within the defined scope of the role and redirecting as appropriate

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Advanced College Diploma (3 years) or acceptable combination of equivalent experience in commerce or related field with a specialization in accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience including recording financial transactions (accounts payable, accounts receivable, journal entries) using a computerized information system.
- Experience dealing with a large volume of transactions, customer service, and responding to inquiries in a professional manner.
- Demonstrated high level of attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy under pressure of deadlines.
- Solid understanding of accounting, purchasing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, internal controls, and HST.
- Good understanding of the concepts involved in forecasting and variance analysis, and internal recoveries.
- Ability to quickly master system skills, including ability to quickly gain a good understanding of systems.
- Substantial working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential, including the ability to consolidate and link multiple spreadsheets and to use advanced functions and formulas.
- Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage deadlines.
- Highly professional approach, use of tact, superior organizational skills, ability to work with mínimal error under pressure, good judgment, initiative, flexibility, ability to deal in an effective and cooperative manner with a variety of people.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work independently and also collaboratively in a team environment.

**To be successful in this role you will be**:

- Accountable
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Diplomatic
- Problem solver
- Team player

**Closing Date**: 04/03/2024, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Budget - Continuing
**Schedule**: Full-Time
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Finance/Budget/Planning/Audit

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