Advisor, Compensation

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
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• 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
• 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’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

Job Description

We are seeking an Advisor on the Compensation team within Total Rewards. The Total Rewards group ensures that CPPIB’s compensation, pension, benefits, and wellbeing programs are designed and implemented in a way that enables the firm to attract and retain high caliber talent. The group develops related policies and program, as well as oversees their execution.

Reporting to the Director, Compensation, you will be responsible for supporting all compensation related programs and processes. Specific responsibilities include:

• Support the Compensation team with contributing to compensation design review and building out best practices. Also supporting various tasks during our annual processes including market benchmarking surveys, year-end salary and incentive compensation review processes, management of exceptions, and testing of systems and statements. This position will serve as key control in a number of critical processes and must be able to manage competing priorities.
• Independently produce and deliver analysis to various teams across HR and key business stakeholders to support compensation and market data insights for all jurisdictions/offices; demonstrating curiosity to seek and understand the story beyond the numbers.
• Own the first line of query resolution support by facilitating discussions with relevant subject matter experts until queries are addressed. Could be supporting the request for job evaluation or compensation guidance from Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility and other HR professionals.
• Participate in enhancements to our HR systems, including support for definition of business requirements and user acceptance testing activities.
• Document and maintain business user guides for various system, including training material for our market data platform.
• Look for efficiency gains in our processes and work with members of the Operations and Analytics team to implement changes.
• Aid in the development of employee communication materials and support the governance and upholding of plan terms across all compensation plans.
• Aid in the management of vendor relationships including tracking timelines and invoices

Qualifications

The preferred candidate will have 1-3 years of relevant experience working in a similar function. Offer will reflect relevance of that experience.

Other position requirements:

• Strong planning and organizational skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities
• Very detail oriented with a superior track record of achieving high quality results
• Good communication skills - both written and verbal
• Proven ability to maintain sensitive and highly confidential information
• Advanced Excel skills to manipulate spreadsheets
• Ability to independently produce discrete pieces of work
• Collaborate across the organization and foster effective working relationships at all levels internally and with external partners
• Able to identify opportunities, take initiative and think through future implications
• Previous experience working with and reporting from HR information systems. Experience with Workday/ Peoplefluent is an asset.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines
• 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.