BUDGET & FINANCIAL ANALYST

Job ID: 64113

Job Category: Financial Analyst

Division & Section: Finance Shared Services, Business Transformation

Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St, Toronto, ON M5V 0C4, 15th Floor

Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Permanent Vacancy

Salary Range: $96,566.00 - $132,880.00

Hiring Zone: $106,063.00 - $114,994.00

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation: Non-Union

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 24-Apr-2026 to 10-May-2026

Be at the financial centre of transformation, insight, and decision‑making.

As a Budget & Financial Analyst, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how Finance Shared Services (FSS) delivers modern, efficient, and data‑driven financial operations. This is a role for someone who loves turning complex financial data into insight, structure, and confidence for decision‑makers and who wants their work to directly support large‑scale transformation across the organization.

You’ll be a trusted financial partner to the Division, supporting both day‑to‑day financial operations and longer‑term modernization efforts. From building financial baselines that inform the FSS transformation to preparing operating and capital budgets, your work will help ensure the organization is financially sound, strategically aligned, and ready for the future.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you’ll coordinate a full range of financial services for the Division while supporting Finance Shared Services initiatives focused on modernization and process improvement. You’ll implement detailed financial and program plans, recommend policies aligned with FSS transformation requirements, and conduct research grounded in legislation, corporate practices, sector trends, and leading practices in shared services and financial optimization.

You’ll take ownership of the operating and capital budget cycle coordinating preparation, consolidation, implementation, monitoring, including variance analysis and reporting in line with corporate and divisional guidelines. Through data‑driven analysis, you’ll help establish financial baselines that support transformation initiatives and ensure project and program expenditures remain within approved limits.

A major part of your role will be financial analysis and insight generation. Working closely with the project team, this role will evaluate end‑to‑end financial processes, analyze and integrate insights from diverse data sources, and deliver clear, data‑informed recommendations that support project objectives and business outcomes. You’ll identify financial risks, gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for standardization, and clearly communicate issues and options to management linking financial findings to strategic and operational impacts.

You’ll work closely with cross‑divisional teams to analyze financial and operational data such as Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable to support City‑wide reporting, inform decision‑making, and uncover process improvement opportunities. You’ll also prepare robust business cases for new or enhanced initiatives, building financial models and sensitivity scenarios that reflect program needs and resource constraints.

Your work will directly support leadership and governance. You’ll prepare and review briefing notes and staff reports for Council, Standing Committees, Boards, and Corporate Finance, ensuring financial impacts are clearly articulated. You’ll also develop specialized reports requested by City Council, commissions, provincial ministries, or Corporate Finance sometimes requiring custom analytical frameworks or methodologies and help develop performance metrics and reporting frameworks that support FSS outcomes.

You’ll play a hands‑on role in financial controls and compliance, overseeing divisional accounting, receivables, and internal control systems to ensure compliance with accounting standards and policies.

At year‑end and quarter-ends, you’ll coordinate financial reporting activities analyzing and reconciling transactions, overseeing adjusting journal entries, and ensuring all documentation is submitted accurately and on time.

You’ll be a go‑to financial advisor and coach within the Division providing ongoing assistance, training, and guidance to program managers on budget and financial management. You’ll help develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and control systems, continuously reviewing operations to identify improvement opportunities aligned with the FSS operating model and service delivery approach.

From a people and systems perspective, you’ll provide direction and technical guidance to clerical staff, review work for accuracy and completeness, indirectly supervise financial work on a day‑to‑day basis, and support workforce planning and performance input for the Project Director. You’ll also maintain and enhance financial planning systems, help define divisional requirements, and develop and maintain the divisional intranet site for financial services.

Throughout all of this, you’ll build strong professional relationships across the organization including Corporate Finance, auditors, agencies, and divisional staff becoming a trusted, knowledgeable, and collaborative financial partner.

What Will You Bring to the Role

You bring a strong foundation in finance, accounting, and financial analysis, supported by post‑secondary education in Finance, Business, Accounting, Administration, or a related field, along with a CPA designation.

You have hands‑on experience across core finance operations such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, reconciliations, budgeting, and variance analysis and you’re comfortable working in complex, highly regulated environments. Experience with municipal government operations or shared service delivery models is an asset.

You’re highly analytical and data‑driven, with advanced skills in Excel and strong proficiency with Word and PowerPoint. You can build financial models, dashboards, and structured analyses, mine and segment large datasets, and translate complex data into clear, evidence‑based insights that support leadership decision‑making.

You have experience working with ERP systems, ideally cloud‑based platforms like SAP S/4HANA, and are familiar with KPIs, performance metrics, and finance transformation concepts. Exposure to automation and emerging AI tools in finance is an asset, especially if you can identify opportunities to improve efficiency and processes.

You’re methodical, detail‑oriented, and committed to data integrity ensuring financial information is accurate, consistent, and reliable. At the same time, you’re a critical thinker and problem‑solver who can look at data differently, resolve issues, and recommend practical, well‑reasoned solutions.

Your communication and interpersonal skills allow you to work effectively across teams, explain financial concepts clearly, and build productive relationships with stakeholders at all levels. You can manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, work with minimal supervision, and handle confidential information with professionalism and discretion.

Finally, you bring a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and respectful workplace values, aligned with the Toronto Public Service.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve. Learn more about the City’s commitment to employment equity.

Accommodation

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