Manager, Budget

**Date Posted**:08/08/2025
**Req ID**: 44718
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: Budget, Planning & Finance
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

**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.

**Position Summary**:
Under the general direction of the Director, Planning & Analysis, Budget, Planning and Finance, the Budget and Planning Manager leads and oversees all annual budget activity at UTM and supports the development and preparation of the long range plan, including developing complex financial models. This includes planning and overseeing the annual budget exercise for all Budget, Planning and Finance staff and all financial contacts in UTM departments, incorporating all changes and consolidating the annual operating budgets for academic departments, administrative departments, the library, utilities, facilities, ancillary and student service departments. In addition to the annual budget, the position will also be responsible for managing the Strategic Planning process. The Budget and Planning Manager is the key contact person with the Planning & Budget Department (P&B) with respect to the annual and current budget (including strategic initiatives requests) and ensures that all correspondence from P&B is followed. The incumbent recommends continual improvement changes to the UTM budget model, seeking out best practices from outside UTM and feedback from UTM departments and implementing changes to streamline and improve understanding of information. Working with the Executive Director, the Assistant Directors and the Director, Planning & Analysis in Budget, Planning and Finance, the Budget and Planning Manager ensures all current information/changes from UTM departments are incorporated into the long-range plan. The incumbent ensures funding is received and allocated appropriately within the UTM budget model and administers central UTM accounts. The incumbent also acts as a senior, lead analyst, providing training and guidance to the Financial Officers within UTM Budget, Planning and Finance. The incumbent reviews forecasts and provides advice and training to the more senior financial staff across UTM. This includes the training for Strategic Initiatives requests consolidation, communication, reporting, and presentation to the leadership. The Budget and Planning Manager also engages in special projects as required, including financial modelling for internal projects and external contracts, analyses for administrative staff restructurings, assessing the financial implications and making recommendations to the Executive Director and Director, Planning & Analysis.

Additionally, the Budget and Planning Manager plays a key role in fostering collaborative relationships across departments to ensure alignment with financial goals and priorities. The incumbent will also contribute to the continuous evaluation of resource allocation and financial performance to support UTM's strategic objectives and long-term sustainability.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**

Completion of a University degree with a specialization in accounting and a professional accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA) or acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience in finance and business management is required.

Understanding of both managerial and financial accounting practices within complex organizational environments, preferably in the higher education sector, is essential.

**Experience**
- A minimum of seven (7) years of related budgeting, accounting, and financial analysis experience, with a proven ability to manage large-scale budgets and provide strategic financial advice.
- Experience in strategic advisory roles to senior management, providing guidance on complex, non-standard