Finance Manager Jobs

Our client, a long-time entity in the housing market in the GTA, is looking for a Finance Manager to maintain and enhance their finance department by following financial policies and procedures; planning, budgeting, and preparing financial reports; and managing staff within the department while ensuring adherence to the mission statement, policies, and procedures of our organization.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary

• Pension Plan

• Employee Assistance Program

Responsibilities:

• Preparing draft budget for discussion with finance director and management team with recommendations or alternatives, and accurate, complete and detailed analysis of previous expenditures for comparison purposes.
• Initiating, developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, and productivity standards.
• Anticipating and planning for future funder and legislative changes.
• Overseeing and communicating with the housing department to ensure accuracy of tenant management.
• Supervising the maintenance and integrity of the chart of accounts, assigning new classifications as may be necessary and ensuring the correct and accurate accounting allocations of all entries.
• Other duties as assigned
• Develop scheduling and tracking systems to ensure deadlines are met.
• Updating agency knowledge concerning funder and legislative reporting requirements.
• Participating in the recruitment, selection of new employees and ensuring orientation and training particular to finance
• Fostering cooperation among management and staff.
• Obtaining input from management and other key individuals about overall direction and goals of the agency, and their best estimates of financial resources necessary to achieve goals.
• Managing and ensuring accuracy of payroll, pension and benefit plans for the organization.
• Planning and implementing workflow systems.
• Identifying and evaluating financial and business trends.
• Obtaining from staff, their best estimate of the budget revenues and expenses for their department.
• Ensuring that financial transactions are properly documented and that there is an adequate audit trail.
• Reviewing the central administration and property management allocation routine to ensure it provides the organization with accurate information on the true costs of doing departmental business.
• Representing the organization at external forums.
• Following financial reporting formats that reflect the changing nature of the agency’s business.
• Assisting with the annual budgeting process as defined in the agency’s financial policies.
• Determining the accounting treatment of new or unusual financial transactions.
• Preparing and delivering funder budget and reporting submissions by required deadlines.
• Ensuring bank and credit card reconciliations are complete and accurate.
• Ensuring that asset, liability and capital account balances are accurate (monthly).
• Assisting with funder budget submissions, financial reports, tax filing, and other reports as required.
• Enforcing accounting controls and internal controls.
• Gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information for meetings.
• Coordinating and preparing working papers and supporting documents required by auditor for the year-end audit.
• Adhering to requirements of the auditors, to generally accepted accounting principles, and to funder requirements.

Qualifications

• Previous management experience, preferably in unionized environment.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial planning, accounting, analysis, and budgeting principles and practices.
• Post-secondary education with a CA, CGA, or CMA designation, or equivalent designation/experience.

If you are interested, please apply through the link provided for the attention of Nav Kamal or call him on 416-688-2791.