Associate, Business Intelligence (12-Month Contract)

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, São 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:

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

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.

Reporting to the Manager, Business Intelligence (BI) – Management Analytics, the Associate will build relations across Departments and Technology partners, familiarize themselves with the existing application to support the requirement documentation process for migration to Cloud based platform. Within the Finance department, the BI team is responsible for delivering financial data within the organization, manage and support self-serve tools, manage internal views of data used by Fund Managers, Accounting, Finance, Performance and Senior Management. This role requires basic understanding of Accounting and Investment Performance calculations

This position requires knowledge of investment products related to Public Markets, Derivatives, Real Estate, Private Equity and Credit Investments, experience working with investment accounting systems, a passion for data and understands how data quality contributes to an effective business.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Test IT deliverables by performing UAT
• Understanding of Agile (Scrum) methodology and eliciting requirements in JIRA as stories
• Understand the existing application and document the requirements for future state transition to Cloud based application
• Ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects with occasional ad-hoc requests and manage time to achieve optimal results.
• Understand and analyze data from various sources using SQL tools and Python programming language
• Work with the team and Project Manager(s) to create feasible timelines, identify project risks and actively resolve issues.
• Understand Market Data from sources like RIMES, MarkIT, Bloomberg, etc. and convert related requirements into documentation
• Analyze impact of system enhancements on existing processes because of dynamic nature of the business
• Strong ability to work independently and as part of the team in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with the Product owner and stakeholders from different departments to gather and elicit clear requirements for technology team to deliver
• Provide support to end-users as needed

Qualifications

• Professional designations such as a CFA, CPA are considered an asset
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Familiarity with Finance, Accounting, Performance calculation principles
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Commerce, Accounting, Economics or Computer Science stream, or a related field
• Proficiency in writing business requirement documents and track record of performing user acceptance testing for deliverables.
• Knowledge of Agile (Scrum) methodology and familiarity of working with a Product Owner is considered an asset
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and experience working in a cross-department team environment
• 5-7+ years of business analysis experience working on complex projects.
• Proficiency working with programming languages (SQL, Python etc.)
• Familiarity with Market Data from RIMES, Bloomberg, etc.
• Demonstrated a quality for learning new concepts and skills in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong 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.