Director, Finance Business Partner, Technology & Operations

CPP Investments; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A global investment organization headquartered in Toronto is seeking a Director, Finance Business Partner for Technology & Operations. The successful candidate will provide financial insights, develop impactful reporting, and guide planning for departmental strategies. Candidates should possess over 8 years of finance experience, strategic insight, and strong relationship management skills. This role emphasizes collaboration in a hybrid work environment, ensuring an impact on the organization's mission to support financial sustainability.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Access to diverse colleagues

Culture of integrity and partnership

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in finance-related roles, especially in analysis.
• Ability to communicate insights to senior management effectively.
• Experience in asset management contexts preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver integrated insights across departments.
• Develop impactful financial reporting.
• Coordinate enterprise-level reporting processes.
• Guide financial planning for business strategies.
• Advise on reporting and analytical needs proactively.
• Enhance analytics capabilities through self-serve tools.
• Champion a performance-oriented culture.

Skills

Strategic mindset

Strong problem-solving skills

Exceptional relationship management

Excellent written and verbal communication

Experience in cross-functional initiatives

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Job description

Director, Finance Business Partner, Technology & Operations

• Full-time
• Function: Information Technology

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.

The Director, Finance Business Partner (FBP) for Technology & Operations drives fit‑for‑purpose reporting, analytics, and insights on cost and workforce to support effective decision‑making.

The successful candidate will have proven experience partnering with business and/or technology functions, combining strong financial acumen, relationship management, and agility to enable informed decisions and contribute to CPP Investments’ overall objectives.

Role‑specific accountabilities

• Deliver integrated insights: Provide a holistic view of key operating and cost metrics by leveraging data, technology, and cross‑functional partnerships across departments. Collaborate closely with T&O’s strategy and business management teams, and senior management teams.
• Develop impactful reporting: Produce concise, relevant, and actionable financial analysis that enables department leaders and senior management to make informed decisions, while ensuring consistency at the enterprise level.
• Coordinate enterprise reporting: Ensure alignment and accuracy of messaging across departments and audiences. Lead the preparation of quarterly departmental management reports and contribute to Board reports.
• Guide financial planning: Support annual and long‑range business planning by developing budgets that align with departmental strategies and enterprise expectations ahead of the fiscal year.
• Advise proactively: Anticipate reporting and analytical needs arising from mandate or business changes, establishing trusted advisor relationships with business and senior management teams.
• Enhance analytics capabilities: Partner with Finance colleagues to develop self‑serve tools and multi‑dimensional dashboards that meet evolving departmental and enterprise analytical needs.
• Champion performance culture: Foster a high‑performance, continuously improving environment that values innovation, learning, quality, and talent development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience (8+ years) in deriving actionable insight from both qualitative and quantitative information, and communicating such insights effectively to senior leaders.
• Strategic mindset with strong problem‑solving skills and intellectual curiosity; able to distill complex information into clear, practical insights.
• Sound understanding of cost concepts and methodologies, prior experience in Finance, Planning & Analysis function an asset.
• Exceptional relationship management and influencing skills, balancing partnership and independent oversight.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate complex ideas in plain language.
• Proven experience leading cross‑functional initiatives and implementing business solutions collaboratively.
• Commitment to CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles: integrity, partnership, and high performance.
• Experience within an asset management context, such as a global multi‑strategy fund, public or private pension fund, or sovereign wealth fund.

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.