Institutional Reporting Manager

**Institutional Reporting Manager**:
The University of Saskatchewan is a world leader in water and food security, vaccine development and infectious diseases, and human, animal, and environmental health. The Financial Reporting division provides innovative and disciplined support and expertise as an integral part of ensuring USask becomes the university the world needs. The division is also committed to fostering a workplace culture that promotes diversity, collaboration, and professional growth.

USask provides employees many benefits such as flexible work arrangements; access to the university’s recreation services; ongoing professional development and mentorship and a comprehensive benefits and pension program.

As an integral unit within the Controller’s team, the Institutional Reporting Manager is accountable for timely and accurate institutional financial reporting for the university. This position is responsible for developing and delivering appropriate standards for institutional financial reporting requirements of the university, whether performed centrally or in the colleges, departments, or other university units.

**Primary Purpose**: The Institutional Reporting Manager leads the financial reporting function for management, the Board of Governors, and external stakeholders and guides all university staff engaged in financial reporting activity. The Manager is the university expert on financial accounting and financial reporting rules and requirements as established by CPA Canada, the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO), and other industry standards.

**Nature of Work**: Reporting to the Manager, Financial Reporting and supporting the Controller, this position is accountable for institutional financial reporting to internal and external stakeholders including the annual audit of financial statements, internal control over financial reporting and institutional financial compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. The Manager develops and delivers appropriate standards for related accounting requirements of the university.

This position provides works alongside and provides effective mentorship to financial analysts in the Financial Reporting team.

Working conditions are collaborative. This position has access to sensitive, confidential, and privileged information, such as tentative collective agreements and legal settlements, to assess financial reporting and accounting treatments. This position is responsible for work that is high volume, involves complex problems, expects tight deadlines, and has numerous competing interests. The work is self-guided and priorities may shift based on environmental considerations. The Institutional Reporting Manager’s hours will align with the University’s financial cycles and work outside of regular working hours may be expected.

**Typical Duties or Accountabilities**:

- Accountable for the timely and accurate preparation of the University’s annual and quarterly financial statements and other types of financial reports including all the related working papers.
- Leads the annual audit processes and the preparation of other types of required institutional financial and regulatory reports for internal or external purposes.
- Acts as the key contact for the audit team from the Office of the Provincial Auditor.
- Develops understanding of and remains current in Canadian GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).
- Coordinates work assignments of Financial Reporting staff with the Manager, Financial Reporting, to support quarterly and yearend financial reporting.
- Responsible for the analysis of control processes that ensure adherence to regulatory policies and practices and reporting regulations and standards (internal and external).
- Maintains the overall integrity of the financial records and internal control over financial reporting of the university to ensure the university complies with generally accepted accounting principles.
- Provides institutional leadership in the areas of financial accounting and financial reporting, through development of university policies and procedures impacting institutional reporting.
- Promotes accountability and transparency of activities and outcomes of institutional financial data.
- Ensures risks/costs are identified and considered in developing recommendations and making decisions regarding information impacting financial reporting.
- Leads the university’s Internal Control over Financial Reporting program.
- Lead the annual risk assessment of the university’s financial statements.
- Continuously develop and maintain a control testing, monitoring, and review program and lead a team of professionals in the review and testing processes.
- Compile reporting to support the certification of the university’s financial statements.
- Provide support for professional client-centered service through the delivery of advice on financial accounting issues.
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