Associate Director, Financial Controls & Reporting (12-Month Contract)
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16 York St, Toronto, ON M5J 0E6, Canada
Job Description
Posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
OUR COMPANY BACKGROUND & CULTURE
UPP is the first pension plan of its kind in Ontario’s university sector, proudly serving over 41,000 members across five universities and fourteen sector organizations. Our purpose is to bring greater retirement peace of mind to the university sector by investing with integrity and serving members with care. As a sector-wide plan designed for growth, our doors are open to all Ontario universities.
Together, we’re a team of progressive thinkers and agile doers operating within a fast-paced culture of collaboration and respect. We believe in bringing smart and capable people together to create, solve, and grow with a clear shared vision and values of integrity, inclusivity, ingenuity, and impact. Our culture is intentionally welcoming and purposefully rooted in equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation (EDI&R). We believe diverse teams, perspectives, and lived experiences contribute to better decisions and a better workplace.
As a pension plan, UPP approaches investing through a long-term lens to generate and safeguard value. Our commitment to investing responsibly accounts for material risks that impact our investment portfolio to generate sufficient risk-adjusted returns to meet the pension needs of our members.
Join us in building a bright future for our members, our organization, and each other.
THE ROLE
UPP is seeking an experienced, goal-oriented, and friendly Associate Director, Financial Controls and Reporting (12-month contract) who excels at rolling up their sleeves and delivering. Reporting to the Director, Financial Reporting, this is an exceptional opportunity for someone with a breadth of experience looking to apply their knowledge and expertise to our organization. We’re a fast-growing organization and we’re excited for the future incumbent in this position to join our team, play a critical role in our continued evolution, and positively enhance the UPP plan member, employee, candidate, and visitor experience! This dynamic role will provide opportunities to engage with senior leaders, consultants and the external parties including the auditor and peer pension organizations.
This role is based in downtown Toronto under a hybrid work policy, allowing employees the flexibility to work remotely and in-office (two days per week in-office).
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Associate Director, Financial Controls and Reporting will have responsibility for but not limited to the following:
- Design the internal controls over financial reporting understanding the flow of information and key controls including compensating controls (ICFR)
- Address any control deficiencies identified internal or by the External Auditor and develop remediation plans
External Reporting
- Review pension plan financial statements – ensuring compliance with latest accounting pronouncements
- Primary external audit liaison and managing audit requests, ensuring audit is completed on time and within budget.
- Preparation of annual financial statements for special purpose entities
- Review month-end accounting entries for special purpose entities, and maintain an investment tracker
- Support the tax team by preparing support for the special purpose entity income tax and indirect tax filings
- Assess new accounting standards and document their impact on the financial statements and inform the operational accounting team of how to
Company
myUPP
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
125.000
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