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 Managing Director, Financial Insights & Analysis (FIA) is accountable for ensuring CPP Investments’ senior leadership and Board receive clear, integrated insights on Fund performance, costs and exposures that support effective decision-making and leads the design and stewardship of the governance, standards and processes for total Fund reporting and analysis. They ensure that information on performance and costs is reliable, comparable and focused on what matters most. A core expectation of the role is the ability to translate complex analytical concepts into simple, compelling narratives on cost and performance.

This is also a people leadership role with a multi-disciplinary team. The MD, FIA is responsible for setting the vision and direction for the function, developing talent, and fostering a culture that values clarity, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The MD, FIA works closely with Finance groups, the Office of the CIO, Public Affairs & Communications and other partners across the organization to:

• set the Fund-level analytics and reporting agenda,
• ensure robust governance and standards around cost information, and
• provide decision-useful insights and narratives that help leaders make informed choices on Fund performance, resourcing and priorities.

The role reports to the Managing Director, Head of Management Analytics.

Accountabilities

1. Integrated total Fund insights, governance, and reporting

• Set and maintain the governance, standards and processes for total Fund reporting and analysis, ensuring a consistent, trusted view of performance, costs, and exposures across CPP Investments.
• Deliver clear, decision-oriented insights and narratives for senior management and the Board through key products (e.g., Quarterly Business Report, Quarterly Budget Analysis, Annual Portfolio Review, Board materials) that highlight drivers, trends, implications and actions from a “one Fund, one voice” perspective.

2. Fund-level planning, cost governance, and resource allocation

• Lead total Fund budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis, providing a forward-looking view of how resources support strategy, including key assumptions, trade-offs, and options for senior leaders.
• Own the cost governance framework and driver-based cost models and, in partnership with Finance Business Partners, provide analytics and scenarios that inform major resource allocation decisions and promote transparency, cost awareness and consistent behaviours across the Fund.

3. External story and data foundations

• Accountable for external management reporting (e.g., Annual Report), ensuring an accurate, coherent, and well-governed story about Fund performance, costs and exposures that aligns with the internal view.

4. People leadership and culture

• Provide clear leadership and direction to the FIA team, setting the vision, objectives and priorities for the function and aligning work with the overall mandate of Management Analytics and Finance.

• Build, develop and retain a high-performing, diverse team; ensure effective role design, coaching, feedback, and succession planning; and foster a culture that values collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

• Model the ability to translate complex analytical content into simple, compelling narratives on cost and performance, and coach team members to strengthen their impact with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, Master’s) preferred.
• Professional designation preferred (CFA, CA, CPA) or equivalent experience.
• Extensive (typically 10+ years) experience in investment analytics and/or finance within a large institutional investor, asset manager or equivalent environment, with a strong track record of senior leadership.
• Proven ability to turn complex analytical work into clear, concise narratives and recommendations that resonate with senior leadership and the Board.
• Experience designing and managing governance frameworks, standards and processes for financial and management reporting.
• Demonstrated senior stakeholder management and influencing skills across investment and finance functions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with a track record of producing high-quality materials for senior committees or Boards.
• Proven people leadership capability – building, developing and motivating large, multi-disciplinary teams; leading through change; and fostering an environment of trust, collaboration and performance.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to connect data and analysis to strategy, behaviours and outcomes.
• Integrity, professionalism and the ability to operate effectively in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading analytics/BI delivery and producing senior-level reporting and insights that inform organizational decisions.

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.