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.

The Director, Finance Business Partner is focused on driving fit for purpose reporting, analytics and insights across investment performance, cost and exposure to support decision making of our Credit Investments department. 

The successful candidate will bring knowledge of and experience in the Credit Investments market, relationship management, agility, and technical/financial knowledge to support the achievement of the department’s and CPP Investments’ objectives.

The Opportunity:

• Provide an integrated view of investment and business performance metrics by leveraging data, technology and cross functional partnerships across departments, including partnering with the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Credit Investments’ (CI) strategy and business management teams.
• Provide fit for purpose reporting and financial analysis that is concise, relevant, and draws out actionable insights enabling Credit Investments leadership to effectively manage the business, while also promoting consistency at the enterprise level when required.
• Coordinate across departments to help ensure a consistent and accurate ‘story’ throughout all reports and audiences, including leading the preparation of quarterly department level management/board reporting, annual portfolio reviews in partnership with Office of CIO (OCIO), and the CPP Investments’ Annual Report.
• Provide support and direction during the annual business planning process in developing an annual and long-range budget to support the Credit Investments department in the execution of their strategy, and ensuring alignment with expectations (in the form of budgets and business objectives) prior to the start of the fiscal year.
• Proactively anticipate reporting needs based on Credit Investments’ investment strategy, mandate, or other changes, developing a trusted financial advisor relationship with Credit Investments.
• Partner with Finance and CI colleagues to develop self-serve capabilities and multi-dimensional reporting/dashboards to adapt the evolving analytics needs of Credit Investments and the Fund.
• Promote a culture of high performance, partnership and continuous improvement that values innovation, learning and a commitment to quality and talent development.

• Demonstrated experience (7+ years) in deriving actionable insight from both qualitative and quantitative information, and communicating such insights effectively to senior leaders
• Intellectual curiosity, strategic mindset, and solid problem-solving skills with an ability to process complex information, draw out key insights, and present that clearly and simply
• Strong partnership  mindset with the ability to proactively anticipate needs, solve problems and communicate relevant insights
• Exposure to performance measurement, attribution, investment risk, and cost concepts and methodologies
• Superior relationship management skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate with and influence stakeholders to achieve strategic goals, balancing a partnership mindset with the need to maintain independence  
• Detail oriented, exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to conceptualize and articulate concepts and new ideas in plain language
• Demonstrated cross-functional execution leadership and partnership approach to developing and implementing business solutions
• Exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance
• Experience working in an asset manager context such as a global multi-strategy fund, recognized public or private pension fund
• Detailed knowledge of Credit Investments markets is an asset.  

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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.