Manager, Accounts Payable

Offre d’emploi originale

The Manager of Accounts Payable oversees the division's accounts payable function, managing a team of specialists to ensure accurate and timely invoice processing. This role also focuses on maintaining vendor relationships, ensuring policy compliance, and implementing best practices to improve operational efficiency.

Détails du poste

Date Posted: 08/06/2026Req ID: 49750Faculty/Division: VP-Facilities & Real EstateDepartment: FRE Financial Strategy and Services DepartmentCampus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) Existing Vacancy: Yes Description: About Us: Facilities and Real Estate Division (FRE) serves the University of Toronto’s three campuses and is responsible for ensuring that the University’s physical infrastructure reflects the scale, ambition, and global standing of its academic enterprise. The division plays a central role in aligning campus infrastructure, capital investment, and real estate strategy with the University’s academic priorities and long-term sustainability. FRE manages several key portfolios, including Facilities and Services, University Planning Design & Construction, Spaces & Experiences and Real Estate Partnerships. We strive to provide efficient and effective services that support the University's mission, values and commitments. The FRE Financial Strategy and Services Department works closely with its portfolio departments, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to manage FRE's financial resources, enhance operational efficiency, and improve financial management capacity. The department ensures compliance, provides strategic advice, enhances support for the decision-making process, manages risks, optimizes financial processes, adopts new technologies, improves existing systems, and promotes best practices. Your Opportunity: This position is responsible for overseeing the accounts payable function for the division by managing a team of AP specialists to perform AP related day-to-day operations. This role’s core duties include ensuring the accurate and timely processing of invoices, maintaining vendor relationships, and ensure PO documentation is compliant with established policies and implementing best practices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the AP process. The AP Manager will play a critical role in maintaining financial accuracy and compliance with division and institution policies and directives. The AP Manager will support compliance and audit activities, provide AP related analysis and recommendations, oversee team staff’s training and development, and contribute to system development, administration and maintenance. Required Qualifications: EDUCATION: A University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Professional accounting designation required (e.g. CGA, CPA, CMA, CA). EXPERIENCE: Minimum of six (6) years of accounting experience in an accounts payable supervisory role, preferably in higher education or large public sector organization. Knowledge of SAP or the University's Administrative Management System (AMS) is required. Experience with document control and process implementation. SKILLS: Advanced proficiency with spreadsheet and word-processing software. Proficient in Excel formulas, Vlookup, Pivot Table and conditional formatting etc. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Strong working knowledge of customer service principles and practices, ability to perform with minimum supervision and make decisions independently. Ability to multi-task, effectively prioritize workload, meet hard and fast deadline. Must possess strong analytical skills. Detail-oriented with multiple tasks, information organization. OTHER: Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects with sensitive deadlines. Superior planning and organizational skills. Demonstrated high level of service to a large group of stakeholders. Closing Date: 09/18/2026, 11:59PM ETEmployee Group: SalariedPersonnel Subarea:PMAppointment Type: Budget - ContinuingSchedule: Full-TimePay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: PM 3 -- Hiring Zone: $93,592 - $109,190 -- Broadband Salary Range: $93,592 - $155,985Job Category: Finance/Budget/Planning/Audit

Ce que vous ferez

The Manager of Accounts Payable oversees the division's accounts payable function, managing a team of specialists to ensure accurate and timely invoice processing. This role also focuses on maintaining vendor relationships, ensuring policy compliance, and implementing best practices to improve operational efficiency.

Exigences

Candidates must hold a university degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration along with a professional accounting designation such as CPA or CA. A minimum of six years of accounting experience in a supervisory capacity, preferably in the public sector or higher education, is required.

Compétences indiquées

• SAP · Souhaitée
• Leadership · Souhaitée
• Compliance · Souhaitée
• Microsoft Excel · Souhaitée
• Communication · Souhaitée
• Process Improvement · Souhaitée

Autres compétences pertinentes

Relevées dans la description du poste. Confirmez les exigences importantes ci-dessus.

• Accounts payable
• Financial management
• SAP
• Administrative management system
• Process improvement
• Vendor management
• Compliance
• Audit support
• Excel
• Vlookup
• Pivot tables
• Analytical skills
• Communication
• Leadership
• Staff training
• Document control
• Vlookups
• Operational Efficiency
• Information Organization
• Organizational Skills
• Document Control
• Financial Strategy
• Planning
• Analytical Skills
• Accounts Payable
• Accounting
• Auditing
• Broadband
• Business Administration
• Investments
• Spreadsheets
• Decision Making
• Customer Service
• Training And Development
• Word Processing
• Finance
• Excel Formulas
• Pivot Tables And Charts
• Financial Management
• Invoicing
• Multitasking
• Operations
• Real Estate
• SAP Applications
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Prioritization
• Conditional Formatting
• Detail Oriented

Domaines d’emploi

• Finance & Accounting
• Management & Leadership
• Education
• Administrative
• Government & Public Sector
• Accounts Payable Manager
• Accounts Payable / Receivable Manager
• Finance Managers
• Financial Managers