Business Officer

Date Posted: 10/27/2026
Req ID: 50765
Faculty/Division: VP - Research
Department: SciNet
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00060201
Existing Vacancy: No

Description:

About us:

SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research on scales not previously possible in Canada.We help power work from the biomedical sciences and aerospace engineering to astrophysics and climate science. SciNet operates as part of a national platform for advanced research computing and is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the University of Toronto and other users/partners.

Your opportunity:

Reporting jointly to the Chief Technical Officer and the Manager, Budget & Operations Strategic Initiatives you will perform a wide range of financial, administrative, facilities and project-tracking functions for SciNet. You will be responsible for forecasting, planning and monitoring multiple complex budgets and restricted accounts. Analyzing financial trends and preparing analyticalreports and forecasts for management decision making.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Administering accounts for restricted funds
• Planning and administering expenditures for operating budget
• Monitoring department budget to ensure expenditures remain within budgeted allocations
• Applying the University Guide to Financial Management and other applicable policies, agency and regulatory requirements
• Acting as the first point of contact for general enquiries
• Determining logistical details and activities for events and/or programming
• Resolving issues that may occur during events and escalating problems as required
• Scheduling day-to-day project activities

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, finance, or related field or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum four (4) year's of related financial administration experience including some administering of restricted funds.
• Financial and business management experience.
• Experience in financial analysis, updating and maintaining a budget model, forecasting.
• Experience in monitoring expenditure, reconciliation, payroll, and human resources activities.
• Experience planning and preparing detailed operating budgets, managing POS systems and research grants, forecasting and analyzing financialdata, and preparing financial reports.
• Strong SAP Financial Information Systems (FIS) and Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) or equivalent systems experience.
• Strong computers skills in MS Office 365 including strong skills in spreadsheet applications.
• Excellent comunicator with strong written and verbal communicatiion skills.
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills with ability to prioritize responsibilities.
• Demooonstrated problem solving skills, discretionand judgement.
• Ability to apply guidelines and procedures in a variety of situations.
• Sound financial administration and numerical skills.
• Abiility to work well within a team.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Meticulous
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

Closing Date: 11/10/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 13 -- $89,794 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $114,832. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial
Divisional HR Office Email: [email protected]

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

Job descriptions are available upon request for internal applicants.