Financial Officer

Location

Peterborough, ON | Canada

Job description

Fleming is located in the heart of the Kawartha Lakes Region in Central Ontario, Traditional Mississauga Anishinaabe Territory and covered by the Williams Treaties,1923... a beautiful place to live and work, surrounded by natural beauty and a mere 90 minutes north-east of Toronto. The College’s 6,800 full-time and 10,000 part-time students, including hundreds of international students from countries around the world, attend at campus locations in Peterborough, Lindsay, Haliburton and Cobourg. Fleming offers more than 100 full-time programs in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Fine Arts, General Arts and Science, Technology, Skilled Trades, Community Development, Health, Business, and Justice as well as other Continuing Education courses.

We are also extremely proud of our more than 85,000 Fleming alumni who are contributing to their communities in the region, across the province and around the world.

What Are We About?

The Financial Officer is involved in all aspects of the budget cycle (development, analysis, monitoring and reporting) for preliminary budget development, quarterly review and semi-annual update. The incumbent is also primary point of contact for Schools purchasing, academic fees, capital and inventory provides oversight provides oversight and guidance to program purchasing and day to day monitoring of the application of policies and procedures to ensure college-wide processes and timelines are being followed.

The Financial Officer also supports financial decision making by the Schools Academic Leaders by providing complex financial analysis and modelling related to curriculum delivery and redesign, operating and capital budgets, including Continuing Education and Contract Training.

The Financial Officer proactively monitors financial data and enrolment reports, providing updates and recommendation to Schools Academic Leaders.

The Financial Officer interacts with all Schools program departments and many services college wide as the primary point of contact in all financial processes for Schools including accounting payroll processes, visa reporting, financial and operational analysis.

The position is also responsible for supporting the Spa and Clinic at Fleming College operations including purchasing and inventory control.

Please Note: This position has been designated as hybrid/partially remote and is expected on-site 50% of the time.

For More Information:

For a complete job description, please refer to the document found here: Job Description

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¿ What We Are Looking For:

• Completion of a three (3) year diploma in Business Administration, Business & Commerce, or similar business-related, with a specialization in finance and/or accounting.
• Five (5) years of relevant working experience including:

• Progressive financial experience including budget preparation/ management, financial/variance analysis, exposure to project-based work assignments.
• Experience and demonstrated ability to work with complex excel spreadsheets. E.g.: for budget preparation, to reconcile and analyze actual expenditures and revenues as compared to budget, to reconcile actual results to expected, analyze variances and follow up accordingly.
• Experience and demonstrated ability to problem solve and model alternate solutions to complex problems.
• Experience using word processing and standard desktop applications. (i.e. Oracle/Peoplesoft information systems).
• Experience working independently with significant autonomy and within a team environment.
• Experience organizing and prioritizing own work, designing and implementing action plans in a deadline-oriented customer service environment.
• Proactively plan annually and several months in advance, analyze and anticipate issues, effectively solve problems in a timely manner and exercise sound judgment.
• Experience co-coordinating several project components and using oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills to liaise tactfully and diplomatically with multiple stakeholders both within the dept. and with other college depts.
Experience building and maintaining relationships is essential.

Please Note – Support Full Time
Internal candidates will receive first consideration in accordance with our Support Staff Collective Agreement during the internal posting period of five (5) days. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

How To Apply
Internal Candidates can apply by going here: My Self Service > Recruiting > Careers or My Campus > Career Opportunities
External candidate can apply by visiting our website:

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Fleming College is committed to building diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible learning and working environments. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our Staff, our Faculty and our Administration including, but not limited to, women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity to apply.

We believe in and promote the rights of all persons with disabilities and commit to ensuring accommodations available throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform our Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require to ensure your equal participation. To obtain a copy of this document in another format please e-mail [email protected] .

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