Date Posted: 06/16/2025 Req ID: 43590 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts and Science Department: Office of Financial Services Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto) Description: About us: The Faculty of Arts and Science is the heart of Canada's leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts and Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs. We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts and Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world. Your opportunity: The Senior Finance and Planning Analyst will be joining a team of finance experts in the Office of Budget,Planning, and Finance at the Faculty of Arts and Science to support the strategic analysis, planning and implementation of the Faculty's new budget model. Reporting to the Director of Planning, Data and Analysis, the incumbent will also be responsible for interpreting and applying policies procedures when recommending changes for improvement, providing advice and data to support the development of business cases and analytics for departmental initiatives and performing complex financial data modelingand analysis. The Senior Finance and Planning Analyst will also be assisting with strategic projects through generating specialized analysis and reports for financial planning and conducting financial research and analysis. The incumbent will be responsible for serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialist and senior leadership. Your responsibilities will include: :Overseeing the financial management of budgets that include strategic planning, analysis and forecasting beyond a department level :Forecasting and planning financial activities incorporating budgets with multiple sources of revenue and/or recoveries :Resolving accounting discrepancies referred by other specialists :Analyzing complex statistical reports and/or financial information for management decision:making :Delivering presentations on financial data and models to clients and/or senior management :Writing complex technical code :Analyzing and developing program scripts to extract, reformat and analyze data :Directing the activities of a single ongoing staff:appointed employee Essential Qualifications: :Bachelors Degree plus Post Graduate Certificate or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. :Minimum five (5) years of related senior:level budgeting, accounting and financial analysis experience is required including experience providing guidance to accounting staff and experience advising senior management on new and complex issues. :Experience supervising staff in a comparable capacity, including providing guidance, deadlines, coaching, training, and feedback. :Experience in leading, developing and implementing complex budgeting and financial analysis, financial reporting including experience in preparing financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements). Demonstrated experience managing budgets and strategic planning. :Experience doing a forensic review and re:structuring of a higher education institutional budget. :Experience forecasting, developing long:range plans and profitability/cost:benefit analysis and reconciling financial information, generating financial reports from a financial system and process improvements. :Experience developing performance metrics to support an activity:based budget model. Experience with the maintenance of complex financial models and data us