Associate, Cost Analytics, Financial Analytics & Planning (12-month contract)

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

Job Description

Team Description

 The Financial Analytics & Planning team enables the Fund’s ability to make informed strategic decisions. It provides management views focused on actionable cost perspectives that analyze key trends and anticipates future decisions. This includes leading cost management, reporting, business planning, and optimizing resource allocation to drive value creation and achieve organizational goals.

Job Summary

As an Associate, Cost Analytics in the Financial Analytics & Planning team, you will be responsible for supporting the organization's operational strategy to align with financial objectives, ensuring that resources are optimally allocated to support business priorities. As a crucial part of the team, your responsibilities include assisting in the implementation of enterprise-wide key performance and/or operating indicators for specific cost categories; supporting the execution of departmental and project financial plans and forecasts; and independently handling financial closing activities.

Accountabilities:

• Develop, update, and maintain cost models, trends analysis, and dashboards using various data sources and business intelligence tools (e.g., Oracle Financials, SQL queries to extract information from database)
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual cost reporting and analysis for CPP Investments. This will support reporting to the Senior Management Team, Board of Directors, and Departments as well as the Annual Report.
• Plays a key supporting role in the development of financial and project plans, in addition to cost allocations.
• Developing partnerships across the Fund to update cost models and analysis.
• Promotes continuous improvements in processes and reporting, proactively identifying opportunities for enhancements and automation.
• Identifies and thoroughly investigates variances and determines appropriate course of action in a timely manner.
• Contributes to system changes and upgrades by providing input into requirements and coordinating or executing user acceptance testing.
• Responds to enquiries in a timely and professional manner.
• Works cross functionally with other team members and departments to ensure we remain aligned with our vision, goals, and values.

Qualifications

• Business degree (bachelor or graduate) with concentration in Accounting or Finance
• Demonstrated experience (3-4 years) in preparing budget, forecasts and analytics.
• Solid problem-solving skills with experience in automation tools, data manipulation software, or planning software (e.g., Power BI, Python, SQL, Think-cell, Oracle – Essbase & GL).
• Exemplify CPP Investments Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
• Demonstrate curiosity in understanding business processes and finding ways to continuously improve.
• Apply critical thinking to resolve operational issues and timely escalation of emerging risks or issues to their leaders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence and effectively interact with senior leadership and communicate with all levels of management.

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.