Manager, Accounts Payable
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 promotes best practices.
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.
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.
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,…
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