Lead Officer, Travel and Expenses - Ottawa, Canada - University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

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Ottawa, Canada

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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):18

Job Family:
Financial Planning and Reporting

of Open Positions:
1

Faculty/Service - Department:
Travel and Expenses

Campus:
Tabaret Hall

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted:
February 20, 2024

Closing Date:
February 26, 2024

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above

Hours per week:
35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 09

Salary Range:
$67, $85,623.00

This position may be eligible for a telework arrangement.

Learn more about our telework guidelines.

Position purpose:

Reporting to the Manager, Travel, Expenses and Purchasing Card, oversees the day-to-day financial operations of the sector with the objective of ensuring sound financial management and providing advice to upper management to support long-term strategic planning.

Supervises and leads a team of employees whose role is to perform a variety of functions related to the financial and administration operations of the sector in order to ensure a productive and positive environment and to provide senior level advice and support for more complex issues.

May represent upper management on central committees whose mandates are related to the incumbent's area of responsibility.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

Processes and procedures: Design and implement new or modify existing work methods, procedures and processes and monitor compliance by his/her team for the purpose of continuously improving operations to maximize productivity and effectiveness.
Records management: Implement and manage an effective filing and records management system to preserve confidentiality of the records and ensure that complete and accurate documentation is available for future reference or audit purposes.
Reporting: Prepare and analyze various moderately

- to highly-complex reports on financial statistics analyses and financial performance of the sector to provide advice and recommendations to managers and to support long term strategic planning.

Supervision of others: Supervise work performed by administrative support roles to organize priorities and provide guidance in the attainment of individual objectives.

What you will bring:

Advanced knowledge of accounting principles normally acquired through postsecondary studies in a related discipline or an equivalent combination education and work experience
Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role
Professional accounting designation is an asset
Experience in supervision
Experience participating in strategic planning
Experience in budget planning, control and analysis
Experience in analyzing reports
Ability to produce high quality work under pressure while meeting strict deadlines
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Strong organizational skills
High level of discretion

Bilingualism

French and English (spoken and written)

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning:
Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.

Initiative:
Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.

Client Service Orientation:
Help or serve others to meet their needs.

This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.

Teamwork and Cooperation:
Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

Note:
if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click

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Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 12- Covid-19 Vaccination.

This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.