Company Description
Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization
When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world.
With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability.
The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.
CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to :
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility
- Global career development opportunities
- Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
- A flexible / hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.
Job Description
The Associate of Cost Analysis & Reporting is responsible for supporting the organization's operational strategy to align with financial objectives, ensuring that resources are optimally allocated to support business priorities.
As a crucial part of the team, the responsibilities include assisting in the implementation of enterprise-wide key performance and / or operating indicators for specific cost categories, supporting the execution of departmental and project financial plans and forecasts and independently executing month-end financial closing activities.
In this role, you will contribute to fostering a culture of continuous improvement to advance processes and reporting within the team.
You will apply advanced analytics methods to understand cost drivers better. As a member of the Financial Analytics & Planning team, you will ensure the quality and accuracy of analyses, benchmarking and budgeting.
This role will report to the Manager of Cost Analytics & Reporting within the Financial Analytics & Planning Team.
Key responsibilities Include :
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual cost reporting and analysis for CPP Investments to support both internal reporting to the Senior Management Team, Board of Directors, and Departments as well as the Annual Report.
- Partner with Total Fund Management to update cost models and analysis.
- Promotes continuous improvements in processes and reporting, proactively identifying opportunities for enhancements and automation.
- Responds to enquiries in a timely and professional manner.
- Identifies and thoroughly investigates reporting discrepancies and determines appropriate course of action in a timely manner.
- Works cross functionally with other team members and departments to ensure we remain aligned with our vision, goals and values.
- Develop, update, and maintain cost m, trends analysis, and dashboards using various data sources and BI tools (, Oracle Financials, SQL queries to extract information from database)
- Contribute to system changes and upgrades by providing input into requirements and coordinating or executing user acceptance testing.
Qualifications
- Business degree (bachelor or graduate) with concentration in Accounting or Finance
- Demonstrated experience (3-5+ years) in preparing budget, forecasts and analytics.
- Solid problem-solving skills with experience in automation tools, data manipulation software, or planning software (, Python, SQL, Tableau, Think-cell, Oracle Essbase & GL).
- Exemplify CPP Investments Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
- Demonstrate curiosity in understanding business processes and finding ways to continuously improve.
- Apply critical thinking to resolve operational issues and timely escalation of emerging risks or issues to their leaders.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence and effectively interact with senior leadership and communicate with all levels of management.
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