Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments' important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



We are presently recruiting for an Associate to join the Business Intelligence Partner (BIP) team within the Risk and Business Intelligence (RBI) department for a 12 Month Contract. The BIP team delivers actionable insights and flexible analytical solutions to support management and department decision-making, as well as Board oversight. The team provides an integrated, independent view of the Fund's key investment and business metrics by leveraging data, technology, and partnerships with cross functional departments.

The Associate is a key role providing input to reported analytics on performance, exposure, cost, risk and value-add for internal business partners and Senior Management across the total Fund and investing departments. Additionally, the Associate will be responsible for conducting exploratory analysis and research related to total Fund activities as well as creating reports that deliver meaningful insights on departmental activities. The candidate will leverage quantitative, analytical, and communication skills to deliver relevant information and insights.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Produce exploratory total Fund and department analysis to effectively communicate the story behind the numbers to Senior Management
• Develop compelling materials to facilitate discussions including creatively conveying data and analysis with narratives, charts, tables and other visuals
• Support new analytics initiatives to provide insightful recommendations to internal business partners and Senior Management
• Develop and foster effective working relationships within the team and cross functionally, including investing departments, Finance, RBI, and Total Fund Management.
• Address ad-hoc requests for analysis to facilitate the Board discussions, support evaluations of investment programs and strategies, and identify drivers of value-add
• Enhance data workflows to automate data collection from disparate databases and improve processes as well as building effective analytics systems
• Develop into a subject matter expert on the Fund's public market programs and public markets in general, to support information and analytics needs across RBI and the Fund

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we'd like to hear from you:

• Undergraduate degree required
• Completion or progress towards business or finance-related graduate degrees or professional designations considered to be assets (i.e. CA, CFA, MBA, FRM, CIPM)
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in management reporting roles in investment management, pension funds, or the financial services industry
• Strong knowledge of the investment industry, including performance measurement, financial analysis techniques and key metrics
• Experience developing insights and dashboards utilizing Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power BI, or experience working with data and applying programming languages such as SQL or Python to develop solutions considered an asset
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
• Ability to communicate complex, technical concepts in plain language and demonstrated talent for effective oral and written communication including development of compelling materials
• Superior analytical skills and strong attention to detail, ability to think critically and creatively
• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and work in a high-performing culture, with time-sensitive deadlines
• Exemplifies and understands our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered. CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.