Senior Advisor, Knowledge Advantage

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a globally respected investment organization that values integrity and collaboration. As a Senior Advisor, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing knowledge sharing and collaboration across investment teams. This position offers stimulating work in a dynamic environment, with opportunities for global career development. Contribute to innovative solutions and help shape the future of investment management while working alongside inspiring colleagues. If you are passionate about performance and possess a collaborative spirit, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Global career development opportunities

Access to diverse and inspiring colleagues

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data collection and analysis.
• Proven process development skills with project lifecycle understanding.

Responsibilities

• Capture and codify knowledge assets for investment processes.
• Enhance sourcing and strategy efforts with relevant fund knowledge.
• Drive knowledge sharing culture across the organization.

Skills

Data Analysis

Process Development

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Project Management

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma

Job description

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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.

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 $3.6 trillion 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
• Global career development opportunities
• 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.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Advisor to 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
  
  

Additional Information

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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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Investment Management

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