Analyst, Expense Operations

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment organization as an Analyst in the Expense Operation team. You will handle expense processing, collaborate with various departments, and ensure accurate financial records. This role offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and collaboration.

Benefits

Hybrid-flexible work environment

Diverse and inspiring colleagues

Accelerated exposure and responsibility

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with 3-way matching invoice processing is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Support daily operations of expense processing and payments.
• Assist in recording month-end journal entries and reconciliations.
• Promote understanding of accounts payable policies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Oracle Financials

Job 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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6trillion 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
• 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

We are currently seeking an Analyst to join the Expense Operation (EO) team within the Corporate Services group of the Technology and Operations department. This team is responsible for expense processing across all CPPIB global offices and supports the Finance department with general ledger accounting functions.

The candidate will handle expenses including invoices, vendor onboarding, and expense-related journal entries to ensure operating expense transactions are accurate and in a timely manner. The candidate will collaborate with other EO team members, various departments throughout the organization, and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities:

• Support the daily operations of the centralized global expense processing and payments for CPP Investments in accordance with policies and procedures. This includes maintaining the master vendor record, and processing of vendor invoices.
• Coordinate with third-party accounting service providers to ensure accounting records are accurately reflected for outsourced CPP Investments’ global offices.,
• Assist in recording month-end journal entries, expense accruals, intercompany transactions, and reconciliation in an effective and timely manner.
• Actively participate in the organization- wide roll out for the Source-to-Pay project.
• Work with Finance groups to provide supporting analysis/documents/inputs into month-end close, tax filing, management reporting, and financial reporting.
• Assist stakeholders on expense-related matters; respond to stakeholder and auditor queries on a timely basis.
• Promote the use and understanding of accounts payable policies, systems and procedures to the team and other stakeholders across the organization, including the development of training materials.
• Partner collaboratively with finance and other internal stakeholders to resolve cross-functional issues and gaps. Propose and implement solutions that reflect an understanding of business needs, organizational impact and governance and controls.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications; aptitude and interest in learning new software applications.
• Experience with Oracle Financials and 3-way matching invoice processing is an asset.
• Highly organized, attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure to meet timelines.
• Analytical skills and the ability to the think through problems, assess a variety of factors, and recommend solutions

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.