Senior Financial Officer TERM

Date Posted: 11/13/2025

Req ID: 46008

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: Budget, Planning & Finance

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number:

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 Senior Financial Officer, you will be joining a team of Finance experts in Financial and Budget Services to provide the U of T Mississauga community with assistance and information on all aspects of accounting, finance, budgeting, financial systems and project management. The U of T Mississauga community will trust you to be their true partner in all things Finance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the financial management of budgets that include strategic planning, analysis and forecasting.
• Advising staff on accounting practices and University financial policies and procedures.
• Interpreting and applying policies and procedures when making independent decisions.
• Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries.
• Implementing plans and process improvements for financial administration activities.
• Applying the University Guide to Financial Management and other applicable policies, agency and regulatory requirements.
• Identifying and analyzing data discrepancies and taking necessary actions to correct errors.
• Keeping well-informed on changes to policies, procedures, collective agreements, and applicable legislated requirements.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years relevant financial budget and accounting experience.
• Demonstrated experience with budgets, forecasts and variance analysis.
• Experience dealing with various levels in the organization.
• Advanced computer skills: Microsoft Office: Excel (Advanced formula & functions, pivottables), Word, Power point.
• Strong ability to identify critical issues and problem solve independently.
• Experience in reconciling financial information, generating financial reports from a financial system and process improvement.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• SAP experience an asset.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement, tact and initiative. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Diligent
• Diplomatic
• Efficient
• Meticulous
• Organized
• Resourceful
• Team player

Closing Date: 11/21/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band $97,348. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $124,491. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Finance/Budget/Planning/Audit

This is a TERM position ending March 2027.

Lived 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.