Associate, Management Analytics Jobs

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

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 Management Analytics in the Finance department.

Management Analytics provides financial information and insights on performance, costs, and exposures. Our goal is to enable management decision-making (i.e., capital and resource allocations) at both the department and total Fund levels through the Finance Business Partners. The team is also responsible for supporting total Fund reporting deliverables and accompanying processes such as the Business Plan and Annual Report.

Within the Finance Business Partner team, the Associate will be in a key supporting role, providing input to reporting analytics for internal stakeholders and Senior Management across both Private Equity (PE) and Credit Investments (CI) departments. The Associate will additionally be responsible for conducting exploratory analysis and research related to PE and CI activities as well as creating reports, validating numbers, and providing analysis that delivers meaningful insights on performance, attribution, costs, and capital usage. The Associate will also coordinate and contribute to multiple projects.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Work in a team to produce exploratory total Fund and investment department analysis to communicate the “story” behind the numbers to Senior Management
• Address ad-hoc business requests to facilitate Board discussions, support evaluations of investment strategies, and identify drivers of value-add
• Support and work on new analytics initiatives to provide insightful recommendations to internal stakeholders and Senior Management
• Enhance data gathering procedures to automate data collection from disparate databases and improve processes as well as building effective analytics systems
• Develop into a subject matter expert on PE and CI’s departments and private equity and credit markets in general, to support information and analytics needs across Finance and the Fund
• Develop compelling materials to facilitate discussions, including creatively conveying data and analysis with charts, tables, and other visuals in presentation materials
• Develop and foster effective working relationships within the team and across groups at CPP Investments

Qualifications

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

• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investment’s guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership
• Completion or progress towards business or finance-related graduate degrees or professional designations considered to be assets (i.e., CPA, CFA, MBA, FRM, CIPM).
• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and work both independently and effectively as part of a team in a high-performing culture, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to manage timelines effectively for smaller projects (:3 people), and coordinate review processes with efficient version control and delivery.
• Strong knowledge, understanding of or interest in private assets (throughout the investment and finance life cycle).
• Business Analysis Skills preferred: Strong problem-solving, ability to think critically and creatively, and exercise good judgment.
• Proven experience in VBA, SQL, Python, Tableau and/or Power BI is considered an asset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, experience building compelling presentation decks
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in financial analysis within financial services, investment management, or consulting

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.