Summer Student

**HOSPITAL OVERVIEW**

We are the Heart of the East Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), a division of Toronto East Health Network and a proud member of the East Toronto Health Partners, is an award-winning and vibrant 450-bed community teaching hospital serving one of Canada’s most diverse communities. For more than 95 years, we have delivered high-quality, patient-centred healthcare services to more than 400,000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods. Recognized as a leader in workplace wellness and offering a quality work environment focused on learning and development, MGH invests in people to meet their professional goals and to reach their personal best.

It is an exciting time to be joining our team as we have opened our new eight-story Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre, a transformational project that will forever change the Hospital and the care it provides to our community in keeping with our strategic vision of Great Care Inspired by Community.

Currently we have an exciting opportunity for an individual who wants to advance their career as a Summer Student - Temporary Full-Time

**POSITION OVERVIEW**

Join us as a Finance Summer Student and help to create health and build community in East Toronto As a Summer Student, you will work with usin supporting operations related projects and other initiatives related to the finance and accounting function at the hospital.

This position is offered through the support of Government of Canada-Canada Summer Jobs Program. All applicants must meet theminimum requirements of that program.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide accounting and clerical support to the day-to-day operations of the respective team in Finance including Accounting/Reporting, Planning and Analysis and Accounts Payable.
- Assist with internal and external reporting or any other reporting that is assigned
- Assist in the accounting and management of hospital asset disposals
- Ensure timely validation of invoices and payment
- Assist in processing user changes in the E-Requisitioning software.
- Assist in ad hoc requests and project as assigned.

**EDUCATION**
- High school diploma, required.
- Enrollment in a relevant post-secondary program, required. Business or Accounting field, preferred.

**EXPERIENCE**
- Experience in creative writing, school newspaper or equivalent
- Ability to work within a team as a leader and/or team member
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Strong demonstration of tact and diplomacy with a customer service focus
- Expectation of this role encompasses the need to maintain confidentiality with respect to all aspects of the work being performed
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, and prioritize workload
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated computer literacy with proficiency in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Experience with information gathering and the ability to synthesize and summarize information
- Ability to prepare written reports and documents that are clear and concise
- Comfortable working within a team as a leader and/or team member and with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Students must be a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident or person under Refugee Protection, this does NOT include those with a study visa, work visa or refugee status
- All employees of Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), a division of Toronto East Health Network (TEHN), agree to work within the legislated practices of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario.
- All employees of MGH are responsible to contribute to a transparent culture of patient and staff safety by adhering to and abiding by patient and staff safety policies and procedures set by MGH.
- All employees are accountable for protecting the psychological health and safety of themselves and their co-workers through adherence to MGH's policies and practices.