We're Hiring! Financial Services Associate - Sept. 2022
Are you a highly organized and detail-oriented professional with accounting or finance knowledge and experience? Do you enjoy working on day-to-day financial operations and supporting the team? Are you interested in numbers and getting excited about data and reporting? Does the idea of working for a not-for-profit organization appeal to you? Are you looking for your next career opportunity in the Waterloo Region? If so, Waterloo Region Community Foundation is looking for you to join our team as the Financial Services Associate.
About the Role
The Financial Services Associate is a full-time, continuing role that reports to WRCF’s Data Analyst & Financial Services Specialist, and is accountable for providing support to day-to-day financial operations, and ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded, processed, and reported in a timely manner. The successful candidate has a focus on providing excellent service, and a proven ability to consistently perform with accuracy. They must be committed to listening, learning and working together with others. The Financial Services Associate will succeed if they are extremely organized and detail-oriented, willing to be a champion for capturing and actioning information, and genuinely interested in supporting people across Waterloo Region.
Compensation: $35,000 - $45,000 (based on a 37.5-hour work week), plus a competitive benefits package. Currently, employees work both on-site and remotely, and this role includes an expectation of some in-office days weekly, subject to adherence to COVID-19 safety guidelines. We offer flexible work arrangements, but we require core work hours between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm from Monday to Friday.
For more information on the role and how to apply, view the Job Posting (pdf). The deadline to apply is Friday, September 30, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Our Commitment to Equity
WRCF is an equity-conscious employer committed to equity, anti-oppression, diversity and supporting the wellbeing of all our employees. We provide inclusive employment opportunities without regard to race, colour, religion, nationality, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other status that is representative of equity & sovereign seeking groups.
All qualified individuals are encouraged to consider working with us including those who are:
First Nations, Inuit and Métis
Black
People of Colour
Immigrants
People living with disabilities
Ethnocultural religious identities (e.g. Muslim, Sikh, Jewish)
2SLGBTQIA+
If you are an applicant who requires accommodations, please let us know in advance so that we may arrange for their provision. We provide accommodations at all stages of the recruitment and hiring process under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.
About Waterloo Region Community Foundation
Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) is a public foundation focused on Granting, Impact Investing and Convening to make measurable and sustainable impacts in Waterloo Region. As one of 202 Community Foundations across Canada, we collaborate with partners, connect regionally and locally, working with three cities and four townships – to include the people and places across our region, using a trust-based philanthropic approach. Together, we seize opportunities to meet current and future needs of our community. We enable people, companies and organizations to do more good by making it easy for Fundholders and Donors to give and invest, and for charities to receive money. Gifts are directed to WRCF’s endowed funds that drive positive change in two ways: through grants and impact investments that deliver both financial returns as well as positive social and environmental outcomes. We work with our Fundholders to distribute the income generated through grants to support a wide range of charitable causes within our community; in 2021 we granted $5.2 Million to 386 charities and non-profits organizations, bringing our total granting impact to $67 Million since inception. As a leading community-building organization, we also work to amplify voices and issues of importance by convening conversations and sharing information, while approaching our work with an equity mindset.