Financial Analyst, Business Operations

Primary purpose

Tax oversight

• Check payroll and payment processes for regulatory, policy, and compliance requirements with relevant service teams and procurement.
• Ensure timely tax reporting, remittances, and reconciliations, including non-resident withholding tax, T4, T4A, T4ANR, NR4, GST, and PST returns.
• Advise on tax matters relating to payroll, payments, taxable benefits, and revenue sources; monitor CRA business accounts.
• Support reconciliation of WCB-insurable payroll and forecasts.

Financial reporting and processes

• Support accurate accounting and financial reporting in payroll and payment processes.
• Support accounts receivable tracking, reconciliation, and collection in the research area.
• Review and approve journal vouchers; assist with financial statements, variance analysis, reconciliations, controls, and process improvements.
• Develop and maintain compliance process documents.

Relationships and analysis

• Analyze operational processes for compliance and reporting requirements and explain regulatory requirements to processing units.
• Maintain relationships with colleagues, regulators, external advisors, and campus stakeholders to support compliance and process improvement.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in accounting; the source description is truncated before the full qualification statement.
• Strong research skills, expert accounting and tax knowledge, and the ability to prioritize competing demands and collaborate with stakeholders.

Schedule

• Work outside normal hours may be required during quarter-end and year-end financial reporting peaks; this is balanced through flexible work.