Date Posted: 08/18/2025
Req ID: 44870
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00058312

Description:

About us:

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is Canada’s top faculty of pharmacy and is ranked among the top in the world. We bring together Canada’s leading scientists, researchers, and educators in the heart of Toronto’s innovation and health research ecosystem. We advance professional pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science through world-leading education and research and are recognized worldwide for our outstanding scholarship, ingenuity, creativity, and impact.

Our faculty, students, staff, and alumni come together to create a vibrant, collaborative environment rich with possibilities. We are at the forefront of redefining pharmacy’s impact in health care and developing the capacity of pharmaceutical science to pinpoint better therapeutic targets, create new ways of building medications, and ensure medication use is safe and effective. We are committed to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering an environment where each member of our community can achieve their full potential.

Learn more: www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca

Your opportunity:

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Financial Officer will work as part of a dedicated team to support the day-to-day operational needs of the Finance Office. As the Financial Officer, you will be responsible for financial management, payroll administration, grant administration, and procurement administration at the Faculty of Pharmacy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring, recording, reconciling and/or reporting on funding accounts for grants and contracts
• Verifying that research accounts are processed according to sponsor and/or granting agency guidelines
• Identifying and analyzing data discrepancies and taking necessary actions to correct errors
• Processing accounts payable and accounts receivable according to the University Guide to Financial Management
• Resolving issues within the scope of the role and escalating problems as required
• Entering salary and/or personnel information in HRIS and processing payroll, including reconciling payroll distribution
• Verifying that HRIS transactions are processed according to applicable policies, procedures, collective agreements, and applicable legislated requirements
• Serving as a resource to a group or on a function

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or an acceptable combination of equivalent education and experience
• Minimum three years of recent and related financial and payroll experience, preferably in a university environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the interpretation and application of financial management procedures, accounting principles and policies pertaining to funding agencies and academic institutions
• Experience providing cost-saving recommendations and implementing plans and process improvements
• Experience with generating specialized analyses and reports for financial planning (including preparing financial data and models for long-term planning)
• Experience with high-volume processing and reconciling financial, accounts payable and receivable, and payroll records (for multiple employee groups, including hourly, bi-weekly and monthly groups)
• Solid numerical, accounting, financial, organizational and analytical skills, including excellent attention to detail.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat and demonstrated experience with the University’s Financial Information System (FIS) and Human Resources Information System (HRIS) or other related financial and payroll systems
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to present financial data and models to senior management
• Ability to professionally communicate complex financial procedures to principal investigators and research and administrative staff
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to meet multiple deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to exercise a high level of confidentiality, professionalism, good judgment, initiative, tact, and discretion
• Applicants are expected to show evidence of a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment

Assets (Nonessential):

Experience supporting an academic department with administrative and financial functions

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Meticulous
• Multi-tasker
• Organized
• Proactive
• Problem solver

Closing Date: 08/27/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full Time ( Mon-Fri 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM). Occasional evening availability may be
required
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 - $76,577. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $97,928. 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

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.