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

We are currently recruiting a Senior Analyst, Private Funds Operations, reporting to the Manager, Private Funds Operations, to provide transactional and accounting support for private equity investments. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic about problem solving, solutions oriented and comfortable dealing with heavy volume, tight deadlines and complex transactions. You must be a self-starter who works well under pressure. You must have strong interpersonal and business relationship skills and enjoy working across Core Services and the Investment Departments.

Team Summary

Private Funds Operations supports the Funds & Secondaries and Private Equity Asia Investments and plays a critical role in Asset onboarding, funding, and maintenance of the investment. Key functions include:

• Transaction processing and settlement
• Capturing and managing key data elements
• Maintenance of all investment accounting record-keeping activities until asset disposition

Accountabilities

Trade Life Cycle Expertise

• Review trade tickets and accounting entries for accuracy; ensure figures agree with transacted amounts and support provided from General Partners
• Review completeness of supporting documentation and appropriate authorizations to facilitate new deal closings
• Act as the reviewer for specific period processes and procedures (daily, monthly and quarterly)
• Identify issues and assist the Manager in determining corrective actions; promptly escalate irregular activities or issues
• Partner with colleagues from the Investment Departments, Structuring and Business Management, Tax and Treasury to successfully close and fund transactions by proactively identifying and resolving operational issues
• Liaise with investment partners, industry peers, audit and other service providers
• Preparing quarterly valuation and ensuring valuation adjustments are accurately recorded

Investment Accounting & Reporting

• Ensure timely completion and accuracy of various reports and reconciliations relating to portfolio holdings, P&L and daily performance returns
• Prepare or review quarterly financial reports and schedules, note disclosures and management reports while ensuring their accuracy and completeness

Process Improvement

• Update process documentation for key business processes

• Through innovation, develop and enhance internal controls and monitoring procedures related to periodic processes

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies in workflows and recommending automated or streamlined solutions.

• Lead root cause analyses to identify operational risks or recurring issues and drive the implementation of effective preventive controls.

• Lead or assist in various special projects and initiatives as CPPIB works towards our CPPIB 2025 vision.

• Prioritize workload so that all deadlines are met

• Working on special projects and other duties as assigned

• Display leadership and provide guidance to Analysts

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or Master’s Degree in Finance, Commerce or other related discipline

• Professional designations such as a CPA, CFA, CBV are considered an asset

• 3-5 years of related work experience (e.g. finance, consulting, private equity, accounting firm, fund accounting, etc.)

• Strong analytical, financial and management accounting skills will be necessary to perform this role

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Expert in time management

• Excellent attention to detail and consistently high levels of accuracy

• Exemplification of our Guiding Principles of partnership, integrity and high performance

• Advanced Excel skills and comfortable with learning new systems

• A continuous learning mindset with a desire to learn about CPPIB’s business and recommend innovative solutions to business problems

• Willingness to actively contribute to a positive and highly effective team culture

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.