Managing Director, Business Intelligence

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:

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

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.

Management Analytics is an integral part of CPP Investments with the objective of evaluating how we generate incremental returns and manage our existing resources. It represents a management capability that can help us, over long horizons, iteratively improve the Fund’s long-term investment performance.

As part of the Management Analytics group within the Finance department, the Business Intelligence (BI) team will be responsible for leading the development and execution of the company's BI strategy. As part of this strategy, the Managing Director, Business Intelligence, will recommend and implement the BI lifecycle process (from data management to automated reporting processes), develop strong governance and controls to ensure the accuracy and relevancy of information produced by Finance, and recommend BI reporting tools that are fit-for-purpose. In the process, this individual will collaborate with our technology partners in transitioning existing legacy BI tools to new processes and tools in CPP Investment’s technology ecosystem.

This role will collaborate with cross department leaders to demonstrate how data and analytics can improve both investment decision-making and operational performance. This individual will have a strong background in data analysis, visualization, and reporting, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify key business objectives and develop data-driven solutions to support decision making at all levels of the organization.

Major accountabilities:

• Design and implement dashboards, reports, and other visualizations to support data-driven decision making. Advise Management Analytics leadership team, and recommended strategies and priorities around in-flight initiatives and reports to be developed.
• Drive the delivery and adoption of a robust, reliable, automated reporting and data platform that empowers and informs all areas of our business.
• Oversee the collection, integration, and analysis of data from various sources, including internal and external systems, which will lead to better integration of data processes across the organization and efficient consumption of data for analytical needs.
• Support a culture of self-serve analytics, measurement, accountability and data driven decision making.
• Design effective data management controls that ensure the reliability of data and insight delivery to end users. Implement automated processes for data reconciliation across book-of-record systems and sub-ledgers.
• Design and implement the Business Intelligence Strategy by recommending a long-term plan to re-platform the existing legacy data management processes into automated and integrated data processes.
• Be an active and influential voice of data driven change; a proactive partner with senior management in making critical, data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with key business partners to define data governance documentation across our key measures of performance, cost and exposures.

Qualifications

• Ability to serve as advisor on the process of determine the relevant success metrics and KPIs that will serve to measure outcomes once reports are productionized.
• Experience leading and collaborating with Data Science and Data Analytics teams.
• Beyond a strong analytical foundation, possess good business judgment, a collaborative spirit, a curious and open mind, and a talent for clear and concise communication.
• Ability to deeply understand data and socialize the relevant insights and takeaways more broadly and influence business decisions and priorities. You must develop the team's ability to do the same at scale.

Education And Experience

• Build and manage high-performing, innovative analytics and business intelligence teams by hiring, coaching and retaining top talent that is well-versed in data, advanced analytics, data strategies and reporting.
• 10+ years of experience in senior roles in the data science field.

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, 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.