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, S\xc3\xa3o 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\xe2\x80\x99 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\xe2\x80\x99s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



Reporting to the Director, Talent Technology & Operations, the Manager, Talent Technology & Operations will manage planning and execution of system enhancements and contribute to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the HR technology environment. The manager will liaise with the technology team, vendors, as well as centers of excellence within the Talent department to project manage the delivery of digital enhancements. This will include leading prioritization, requirements, configuration and testing activities. The incumbent will focus on system optimization and cyclical process delivery by leveraging best practices and ensuring that deliverables support the department\xe2\x80\x99s strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in optimizing Talent technology by evaluating our current and desired business processes and system capabilities
• Partner to develop and maintain a prioritization framework to support the Talent technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy and objectives
• Actively participate in the requirements gathering, development, testing, configuration, and implementation of new projects and enhancements to existing functionality across Workday and other applications.
• Participate in business acceptance testing activities, focusing on business functionality and optimal business process design, integrations, reports and security governance
• Draft detailed project plans, including the identification of dependencies and risk mitigation strategies and share project updates with key stakeholders
• Identify people, processes, and system changes required to improve processes and understand the end-to-end flow of Talent data across multiple systems
• Oversee the development of systems training and documentation of standard operating procedures
• Leverage advisory skills to influence digitally enabled processes based on best practices and advise on existing technology capabilities
• Work with functional and technical experts to understand requirements and communicate system capabilities/limitations to increase the impact of Workday and other applications within Talent
• Liaise with required stakeholders to engage in troubleshooting activities, and conduct root cause analysis
• Oversee cyclical process delivery within our HR applications by ensuring that internal and external resources understand requirements and timelines are met
• Work in an Agile method \xe2\x80\x93 assist with user story documentation, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and collaboration with an Agile product team comprised of HR and IT colleagues

Qualifications

• The preferred candidate will have 3-5 years of experience working in a similar role.
• Solid project management experience including planning and organizational skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities and time-sensitive deadlines
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong communication, advisory and stakeholder management skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to clearly and articulately identify and define problems and develop creative solutions to address requirements
• Experience leading functional enhancements in Workday is preferable
• Experience with other talent applications such as PeopleFluent, Qualtrics, SmartRecruiters and case management applications such as ServiceNow are an asset
• Experience with Agile project methodology is an asset
• Proven ability to clearly define and articulate requirements, priorities, impacts, and identify solutions
• Ability to collaborate across the organization, foster effective working relationships and demonstrate an innovative mindset
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of partnership, integrity, and high performance

Additional Information

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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.

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