Associate, Strategy & Operations, Active Equities

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:

• 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
• Global career development opportunities
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility

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 within the Active Equities (AE) Strategy and Operations Group. In this role, you will be primarily accountable for: (i) the proactive cost management and review of the Market Data & Subscriptions (MD&S) expense lines across the Department, and (ii) supporting groups within AE to manage their operating expenses by providing advice and direction on financial matters.

The Opportunity:

• Provide quarterly Opex and investment expenses analysis for AE groups to steer business performance and manage costs
• Identify and develop processes that drive efficiency and effectiveness for the team
• Perform ad-hoc financial management analysis as required by AE management
• Manage overall governance and compliance processes and requirements for the Department
• Prepare quarterly consulting spend results and trends for discussion and analysis
• Support the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process for all groups across AE
• Conduct deep dive analysis around spend trends and variances, provide value-add intelligence around spend drivers and variances through commentary, drive efficiencies in the expense reporting and analysis process and present spend reporting results to business management and/or executives
• Support the business continuity strategy and process for AE
• Work with the MD&S team on proactively identifying cost optimization opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-years' experience in a similar role
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a high performing culture, open to and comfortable with evolving changes and new challenges
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of partnership, integrity, and high performance.
• Communicate in a clear, succinct, organized, and convincing manner verbally and in writing
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office particularly in Excel
• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, business or equivalent, with a professional accounting designation
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of accounting and budgeting concepts.
• Independent, resourceful, and able to work collaboratively with business stakeholders and AE colleagues
• Proven attention to detail requiring minimal supervision and review

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.