Manager, Accounts Payable

University of Toronto • Toronto, ON

7d • CA$93,592 - CA$155,985 • Onsite

About The Position

The Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRE) supports the University of Toronto's campuses, ensuring its physical infrastructure aligns with the institution's academic and sustainability goals. The division manages key portfolios including Facilities and Services, University Planning Design & Construction, Spaces & Experiences, and Real Estate Partnerships. The FRE Financial Strategy and Services Department collaborates with portfolio departments and stakeholders to manage financial resources, improve operational efficiency, and enhance financial management capacity. This includes ensuring compliance, providing strategic advice, supporting decision-making, managing risks, optimizing financial processes, adopting new technologies, improving systems, and promoting best practices.

This position oversees the accounts payable function for the division, managing a team of AP specialists. The role involves ensuring accurate and timely invoice processing, maintaining vendor relationships, and ensuring PO documentation compliance with policies. The AP Manager will implement best practices to enhance AP process efficiency and effectiveness, play a critical role in maintaining financial accuracy and compliance with division and institution policies, support compliance and audit activities, provide AP analysis and recommendations, oversee team training and development, and contribute to system development, administration, and maintenance.

Requirements

• A University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Professional accounting designation required (e.g. CGA, CPA, CMA, CA).
• Minimum of six (6) years of accounting experience in an accounts payable supervisory role, preferably in higher education or large public sector organization.
• Knowledge of SAP or the University's Administrative Management System (AMS) is required.
• Experience with document control and process implementation.
• Advanced proficiency with spreadsheet and word-processing software.
• Proficient in Excel formulas, Vlookup, Pivot Table and conditional formatting etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of customer service principles and practices, ability to perform with minimum supervision and make decisions independently.
• Ability to multi-task, effectively prioritize workload, meet hard and fast deadline.
• Must possess strong analytical skills.
• Detail-oriented with multiple tasks, information organization.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects with sensitive deadlines.
• Superior planning and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated high level of service to a large group of stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• preferably in higher education or large public sector organization.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the accounts payable function for the division by managing a team of AP specialists to perform AP related day-to-day operations.
• Ensuring the accurate and timely processing of invoices.
• Maintaining vendor relationships.
• Ensuring PO documentation is compliant with established policies.
• Implementing best practices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the AP process.
• Supporting compliance and audit activities.
• Providing AP related analysis and recommendations.
• Overseeing team staff’s training and development.
• Contributing to system development, administration and maintenance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager