Manager, Finance Business Partner

CPP Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global investment organization as a Manager in the Finance Business Partner team. You will provide insights on performance and support financial reporting, collaborating across departments to drive effective decision-making. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in financial analysis and stakeholder management, along with strong communication skills.

Benefits

Hybrid-flexible work environment

Diverse and inspiring colleagues

Accelerated exposure and responsibility

Qualifications

• 6+ years in financial analysis and reporting.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support financial analysis and reporting for investment departments.
• Develop relationships within Finance and across departments.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Stakeholder Communication

Team Leadership

Project Management

Presentation Skills

Education

Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in Finance

CFA

CPA

MBA

Tools

SQL

Python

Tableau

Power BI

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 presently recruiting for aManager(the "candidate")to join the Finance Business Partner team in the Management Analytics (MA) group within the Finance department. MA provides financial information and insights on performance, cost, and exposures to enable management decision-making at both the department and total Fund levels through the Finance Business Partners.

Reporting into the Director, Finance Business Partner, the candidate will be responsible for supporting the Total Fund Management department, providing input to drive fit for purpose reporting, analytics, and insights across investment performance, cost, and exposure. The role will be positioned to develop an extensive network across the Fund to collaborate and execute on accountabilities. The candidate will require knowledge of financial and investment analysis concepts, combined with strong analytical and effective communication skills.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Work with the Director, Finance Business Partner to:
  • Support the preparation of investing department financial analysis to communicate the “story” behind the numbers to investing departments and management stakeholders, leveraging data visualization tools, and supporting analysis.
  • Support the development of analytical capabilities to generate insights on investing department performance and use of resources (workforce, costs, capital).
  • Coordinate within and across departments to ensure accuracy, completeness and relevancy of information supporting financial reporting and analysis.
  • Provide support and direction during the annual business planning process in developing an annual and long-range budget to support the departments in 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.
• Develop and foster effective working relationships within Finance and across departments at CPP Investments, including investing departments and the Office of the Chief Investment Officer; collaborate with key subject matter experts to drive financial analysis, reporting and communications.
• Address ad-hoc business requests to facilitate Board discussions, support evaluations of investment programs and strategies, and identify drivers of value-add.
• Actively support the development and mentorship of junior team members.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated progressive experience (6+ years) in a role involving financial analysis and reporting, stakeholder communication, team leadership and project management.
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline; professional designations (CFA, CPA, MBA) are considered assets.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple stakeholders to deliver on desired outcomes.
• Highly organized with an ability to manage and oversee multiple deliverables within competing time-sensitive deadlines.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with experience building compelling presentation decks.
• Ability to combine a commercial approach to decision-making with a natural curiosity in understanding the details, to provide situation-tailored solutions and recommendations.
• Proven experience in SQL, Python, Tableau and/or Power BI is considered an asset.
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investment’s guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

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.