Senior Advisor, Knowledge Advantage

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment organization as a Senior Advisor, contributing to a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration. You will enhance investment processes, support global teams, and leverage your analytical skills to drive insights and solutions. This role offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional growth and impact.

Benefits

Hybrid-flexible work environment

Access to diverse and inspiring colleagues

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in data analysis.
• Proven process development skills.

Responsibilities

• Capture and codify knowledge assets for investment processes.
• Work with global teams to enhance sourcing and strategy efforts.
• Maintain documentation of business requirements and project deliverables.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma

Job description

• Full-time
• Function: Information Technology

Company 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

The Knowledge Advantage team is central to CPP Investments’ One Fund approach to generating and sharing differentiated enterprise-wide insights on critical investment topics. The team’s mandate includes developing a rich knowledge sharing tapestry by building and leveraging institutional memory and instigating productive collaboration to advance the Fund’s ability to internally leverage and share the breadth and depth of its knowledge, insights, and expertise. As a member of KA, you will contribute to the execution of our data strategy which seeks to identify, curate, and make accessible high value knowledge artifacts that answer colleagues’ critical investment questions.

We are looking for a Senior Advisorto join our team who will contribute to the team realizing its aspirations. Responsibilities may include the following:

• Capture and codify knowledge assets through systematic processes to ensure teams are building and leveraging institutional memory across investment processes
• Work with global investment teams to enhance sourcing, ideation, diligence and strategy efforts with relevant fund knowledge and proprietary resources and tools to ensure teams are leveraging the full breadth and depth of the Fund’s expertise
• Work with team members and stakeholders across the Fund to drive behavioural change that fuels a knowledge sharing culture across the Fund and further develop novel approaches to knowledge sharing, collaboration, and insight generation
• Liaise with application developers and CPP Investments’ business subject matter experts to brainstorm and document innovative solutions alternatives. Evaluate alternatives relative to business requirements and provide advice that is rooted in deep subject matter expertise.
• Participate in process design meetings and translating outcomes into as-is and to-be process design flows, identifying efficiencies and leveraging the capability of digital resources.
• Apply analytical and technical skills to investigate day-to-day system and business issues, determine the root cause and deliver viable solutions.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation of business requirements, functional specifications, and project deliverables. Generate reports and updates for stakeholders, executive leadership, and project sponsors to communicate project status, risks, and issues.
• Support other team initiatives, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience, including collecting, measuring, organizing, and analyzing data
• Proven process development skills and solid understanding of project life cycle and the capability to apply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations.
• Proven ability to liaise with business subject matters in gathering of business requirements.
• Exceptional (written and verbal) communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated interest in learning about different asset classes, sectors, domains, themes, and geographies
• An entrepreneurial spirit and a creative mindset, with a systematic approach to problem-solving
• The ability to prioritize and multi-task on tight deadlines
• You exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Partnership, Integrity and High Performance

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.