Associate, Technology & Data Business Management

Job title: Associate, Technology & Data Business Management

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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 $450 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 exceed $1.5 trillion in the next two decades. 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 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 presently recruiting for a Associate within the Technology & Data (T&D) Business Management Office.

In this role, you will be accountable for proactive cost management of the data expense line, management reporting around market data spend, forecasting and business planning, as well as preparing monthly metrics on various measures. You will develop an understanding of our global investment data and build relationships with our internal business partners through regular interaction and discussions around the market data we are procuring. You will also support monthly Opex and headcount reporting for select T&D departments.

The Opportunity:

• 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
• Lead and coordinate the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process for market data across all business groups
• Interact with and develop partnerships with Business and Investment Managers around the data we are procuring
• Partner with our external vendor MDSL to support our management of the Market Data Management (MDM) solution from a dashboard and reporting perspective
• Ensure financial data in MDM reconciles to the corporate GL
• Manage and promote self-service spend dashboards, continually assessing current reporting processes and recommend appropriate enhancements to improve or adapt to changing business requirements
• Work with the Market Data Solutions team on proactively identifying cost optimization opportunities for presentation to business partners
• Provide monthly Opex and headcount reporting for select T&D departments
• Perform ad-hoc financial management analysis as required by T&D management
• Identify and develop processes that drive efficiency and effectiveness for the team

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, business or equivalent, with a professional accounting designation.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role
• CPA designation is required
• An extensive understanding and substantial knowledge of corporate finance concepts and FP&A best practices, including modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and KPI tracking
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of accounting and budgeting concepts
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office particularly in Excel
• 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.

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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.

Company: CPP Investments

Expected salary: $85000 – 128000 per year

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Thu, 20 May 2021 22:46:56 GMT