Financial Services Assistant

University of Toronto • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$67,916 - CA$86,855 • Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to the Director, Finance & Procurement, this critical role will support the financial processes at the Faculty of Dentistry, while always providing exceptional service with every interaction. Responsibilities include: processing of expense reimbursements and invoices, journal entries, banking, reconciliation of FIS accounts, ensuring compliance with University ‘s financial guidelines and procedures. Your strong financial acumen coupled with your high caliber organizational and multi-tasking skills will be essential to your success in this role. This is for a term position until December 2027.

Requirements

• Advanced College Diploma (3 years) with an emphasis on accounting or business or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum three years in a financial administrative support area.
• Experience processing financial transactions.
• Experience interpreting and applying financial policies and guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of fundamentals of accounting.
• Demonstrated understanding of financial management procedures, accounting principles and procedures, and an ability to accurately interpret and apply guidelines, procedures and regulations.
• High level of proficiency with SAP (FIS, HRIS, Logistics), Windows, MS Office (Word and Excel), P2P applications, BI tools and Filemaker.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively both orally, and in writing, with various levels of university staff.
• Ability to work under pressure, problem solve, respond to changing priorities, and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
• Proven ability to use discretion and sound judgement while dealing with confidential material.
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Professional manner, tact and initiative required.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Teamwork skills to work collaboratively as a part of a team.

Nice To Haves

• Related experience in a university environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Checking that proper approvals are obtained prior to processing transactions
• Preparing and/or processing journal entries
• Processing expense reimbursements
• Preparing and recording deposits on a regular basis
• Reconciling accounts
• Maintaining filing system
• Providing detailed information on processes, policies, and procedures
• Responding to enquiries within the defined scope of the role and redirecting as appropriate

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree