Student, Accounting (Winter 2027, 4 or 8 Months)

Choose a workplace that empowers your impact. 

Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and passion. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.  

We are a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager. We combine our capital with our capabilities to create real estate that strengthens economies and communities. By prioritizing people, partnerships and places, we generate meaningful returns for OMERS members, enhance value for our capital partners and create a brighter world for our customers.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.

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Are you looking to join an innovative, global real estate company who builds communities and connects people to exceptional places? If so, we would love to tell you our story.
 
At Oxford, our culture is truly one of a kind. Across business lines and around the world, we embrace the complex and tackle opportunities with speed and agility. We are ambitious and humble, forward looking and service-focused. We get stuff done, and have fun doing it!  We take great pride in contributing to the communities where we live. We believe that what is good for the environment is good for business. Together we deliver exceptional experiences to our over 2 million daily customers.

We are looking for highly motivated students to join our North American, Corporate and Property Accounting teams at our downtown Toronto head office. In these roles you will have the opportunity to put your accounting and analytical skills to work, assisting the team with full cycle accounting (e.g. month-end and quarter-end closing entries, bank reconciliations, account reconciliations, cash distributions, payments, variance analysis), financial statement preparation (for non-consolidated structures), various group projects and initiatives and our forecasting and budgeting process. Our Accounting teams support our real estate management platform and reporting for our real estate assets in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. As such, you will have the opportunity to learn about a world class real estate portfolio and the dynamic organization that manages it.

We are looking for a candidate with strong attention to detail, analytical skills, problem solving abilities and overall business acumen who can research issues, assist with ad hoc projects and requests, and multitask in a complex environment. In your role, you will have the opportunity to support activities related to Oxford’s Finance and Strategy Team’s Learning and Culture platforms.

Oxford is also a pre-approved training office for our Property Accountant and Financial Analyst roles, as such, if you are a registered CPA student your experience during your work term will immediately count as relevant experience towards the CPA designation.

In addition, if you complete two four-month work terms with us, you will be eligible to apply for a two-year Accounting Rotational Program upon graduation.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Business, preferably in an Accounting stream
• Tech savvy - highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Very strong communication skills - high level of interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication;
• Resourceful - strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to research;
• Hard working and you learn quickly - self-motivated individual with a strong work ethic and high level of attention to detail;
• Adaptable to change – you thrive in organizations that constantly evolve and adapt;
• A team player – you embrace collaborative sharing of knowledge within a teamwork environment; and
• High performing - driven to achieve results and continuously striving to deliver the highest performance through creative thinking.

What’s in it for you:

• A team that is ready to focus on your growth and development
• Continuous learning across different areas of the business
• Opportunity to be part of the student community at OMERS & Oxford
• An orientation program to set you up for success during your work term!
• Networking and educational session with different leaders across the business

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week. 

IMPORTANT: Application Instructions:

To ensure your application is submitted to our applicant tracking system accurately, please follow the instructions below.

Please include all required documents (Resume, Cover Letter, Unofficial Transcript, etc.) in one combined file. Your application may be submitted in PDF of Microsoft Word format.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.The expected salary range for this position is $44,850.00 - $56,550.00 per year, prorated based on the term of the contract.

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

Oxford's purpose is to strengthen economies and communities through real estate.

Our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the customers we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.