Are you a highly organized and enthusiastic team player looking to showcase your administrative and financial skills? If so, consider this opportunity to make your mark in the Ontario Public Service and provide financial and administrative support to the Forest Research and Monitoring Section within the Ministry of Natural Resources.
About us: The Forest Research and Monitoring Section works with clients and partners to lead and deliver applied scientific research and monitoring. This research informs the ministry's legislation, policies, practices, and guides.
About the job
You will:
• provide financial, human resources and administrative support.
• track and monitor work planning, allocation management and financial in-year review processes.
• provide customer service to internal and external clients.
What you bring to the team
Financial knowledge and skills:
You have:
• experience monitoring accounts payable and receivable activities.
• the ability to identify variances and can take corrective action to amend errors.
• the ability to prepare financial reports and compile data for senior management.
• knowledge of purchasing processes in order to obtain office supplies.
• budgeting knowledge in order to prepare estimates for section programs.
Human resources knowledge:
You have:
• experience processing and preparing payroll documentation and maintaining personnel files
• knowledge of payroll administration in order to track employee hours and prepare documents for a variety of staffing transactions.
• the ability to monitor staffing, such as expired contracts and leaves to ensure appropriate action is taken in a timely manner.
Administrative skills:
You have:
• experience scheduling meetings and preparing agendas and meeting minutes.
• the ability to organize and maintain staff information, filing systems, and contracts.
• the ability to provide clerical and administrative support for health and safety activities.
• the ability to receive and prepare outgoing mail while adhering to sensitive and confidential practices.
Customer service and communication skills:
You have:
• tact and good judgement in order to provide routine responses and information requests.
• the ability to greet visitors and answer phone calls per the OPS Customer Service Standards.
• interpersonal skills in order to work with internal, public and industry clients.
• experience composing, formatting and editing correspondence.
Don't meet every qualification?
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility
We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's
Human Rights Code and the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer
accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please
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