Manager, Accounts Payable

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Date Posted: 08/06/2026
Req : 49750
Faculty/Division: VP-Facilities & Real Estate
Department: FRE Financial Strategy and Services Department
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Existing Vacancy: Yes

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 promote best practices.

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.

• A University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and 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.

• 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.

• 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:08/23/2026, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: Salaried

Personnel Subarea:PM

Appointment Type
:
Budget - Continuing

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:PM 3 -- Hiring Zone: $93,592 - $109,190 -- Broadband Salary Range: $93,592 - $155,985

Job Category: Finance/Budget/Planning/Audit

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