Senior Administrator, Student Accounts

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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

12

Job Family:

Accounting

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Student Accounts, Financial Resources Services, Associate Supervisor

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/10/30

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/11/10

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 08

Salary Range:

$64, $81,935.00

Position purpose:

Assists students in financial difficulty who have a debt to the University, proposing adapted payment solutions for them. Negotiates financial arrangements to ensure future student eligibility to enrol or receive official documents, while complying with policies and procedures. Builds trust with students at risk by demonstrating a strong capacity for empathy, to further student retention and increase graduation rates.

Plans, co-ordinates and controls sponsorship accounts (organizations paying students' fees), ensuring proper understanding and application of practices, processes and policies, so that invoiced fees are collected. Serves as a sponsorship contact providing information in person, in writing or by phone, in both official languages, to students, sponsoring organizations, and University services and faculties.

Analyzes and reconciles bank accounts used to receive student and sponsor payments, complying with internal procedures and accounting regulations.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Second level of student customer service: Makes appointments with students to handle complex cases that can't be resolved by front-line staff and negotiates financial arrangements. Analyzes student files and determines possible options according to set criteria. Advises students on their financial situation and measures to take (e.g., partial payment, payment agreements, loans).

• Planning and co-ordination of operational cycle: Manages sponsorship accounts, handling contracts, billing, followup, reimbursement reports and problem-solving. Regularly follows up with sponsors to ensure they understand cases and payments are received by the prescribed deadline. Regularly follows up with students who have signed financial agreements to ensure they comply with their agreements and know the payment deadlines.

• Customer service: Acts as a resource person for University community members, informing them in person, in writing or by phone about possible financial arrangements, while ensuring the quality of information shared. Provides expert advice on sponsorships and financial arrangements to students, sponsoring organizations, and University faculties and services. Serves as secretary for the Student Account Reimbursement Committee. Confirms eligibility of requests, offers students guidance on policies and regulations, prepares files and follows up with students.

• Finances: Analyzes and reconciles bank accounts used to receive student and sponsor payments, complying with internal procedures and accounting regulations. Detects inconsistencies and takes corrective action as required to ensure data integrity and compliance with policies and regulations in effect. Deposits payments received by cheque or by e-transfer from sponsors in the account management system, and makes reimbursements for excess payments as needed.

• Report production and data management: Provides various simple to moderately complex financial reports, both scheduled and one time, on financial operations, accounts or specific matters, in support of day-to-day operations and strategic planning. Identifies and analyzes more problematic student and sponsor accounts. Determines the precise nature and cause of problems. As needed, shares information with partners concerning students' financial records.

• Documentation: Drafts and updates internal guides on procedures, processes and systems related to own responsibilities.

What you will bring:

• Knowledge of finances, accounting and administration normally acquired through postsecondary studies in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Three years' customer service experience in which autonomy and problem-solving were required (i.e., decision-making power)

• Bilingualism — English and French (spoken and written)

• Experience in interpreting, explaining and applying policies and regulations

• Proven ability to show empathy and control one's emotions despite long work days with back-to-back meetings, so that each client is welcomed and receives high-quality service

• Ability to be tactful, diplomatic and professional in any given situation

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both official languages

• Attentiveness to customer service, with negotiation, communications and interpersonal relations skills

• Independence and attention to detail, to process large numbers of transactions while ensuring data accuracy and meeting deadlines

• Ability to set priorities

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.

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