Senior Business Analyst, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global investment organization as a Senior Business Analyst in the Total Fund Management Trading team. You will leverage your analytical skills to support technology initiatives, document business requirements, and facilitate Agile ceremonies in a collaborative environment. This role offers significant responsibility and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Global career development opportunities

Hybrid-flexible work environment

Diverse and inspiring colleagues

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven process development skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and document results.
• Liaise with application developers to document innovative solution alternatives.
• Conduct process walkthroughs and validate with business subject matter experts.

Skills

Process development

Analytical skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Agile Scrum/Kanban

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Senior Business Analyst, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology

Senior Business Analyst, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets 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 $3.6 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

You will be part of the TFM Trading Technology in the Public Market Technology team, partnering with CPPIB’s traders, investment professionals, and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post-trade activities. The successful candidate will be experienced in working closely with the business to gather and document detailed requirements and help iteratively provide solutions.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing operational and project management support for technology initiatives. By leveraging your analytical skills and technology expertise, you will take ownership of assignments, help drive clarity, analyze business requirements, and communicate requirements to the technology team.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions. Document and validate results with subject matter experts and drive the creation of strong system specifications that enable the development and/or acquisition of appropriate systems to meet business requirements.
• Liaise with application developers and CPP Investments’ business subject matter experts to brainstorm and document innovative solution alternatives. Evaluate alternatives relative to business requirements and provide advice rooted in deep subject matter expertise.
• Participate in process design meetings and translate outcomes into as-is and to-be process design flows, identifying efficiencies and leveraging digital resources.
• Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts. Document key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers, and business continuity plans.
• Apply analytical and technical skills to investigate system and business issues, determine root causes, and deliver viable solutions.
• Maintain accurate documentation of business requirements, functional specifications, and project deliverables. Generate reports and update roadmaps to communicate project status, risks, and issues.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as Daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives, and remove impediments.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven process development skills and understanding of the project lifecycle, applying best practices to dynamic situations.
• Ability to liaise with business subject matters to gather requirements.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Agile Scrum/Kanban, JIRA, Confluence.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Previous experience with traders and investment professionals is a strong asset.

Additional Information

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CPP Investments is committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please inform us.

Note: We do not accept resumes from uncontracted employment agencies or headhunters.