Senior Business Analyst, Finance Systems, Enterprise Systems Technology

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

Job Description

You will work as a Senior Business Analyst in the Enterprise Systems under the Technology and Data department, responsible for building, configuring, and evolving end-to-end technology solutions that enable Finance and Accounting business groups.

Projects are delivered in close collaboration with project team members and business partners using waterfall or agile methodologies.

Major 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.
• Build as-is and to-be process design flows, identifying efficiencies and leveraging the capability of digital resources.
• Liaise with Engineers and 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 translate outcomes into process documentation. Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts.

Document the key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers and business continuity plans for processes.

Understand the data and data flow to assist in preparing the road maps related to migration / transformation programs.

Role Specific Accountabilities :

• Provide strong leadership and project management for multiple initiatives.
• 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 Engineers and 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 by researching industry "best practices", attending process design meetings and translating outcomes into process documentation.

Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts. Document the key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers and business continuity plans for processes.

• Work with technical and business individuals who may be internal CPP Investments staff or external vendors to resolve production issues.
• Apply analytical and technical skills to investigate day-to-day system and business issues, determine the root cause and deliver viable solutions.
• Possess strong analytical skills with ability to conduct complex data analysis.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years' experience in a related role, preferably within the investment industry.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate and build rapport with Technology and Data colleagues, business partners and external vendors using a variety of techniques and collaboration from initiation to close.
• Experience in leading complex group meetings during requirements elicitation and design sessions.
• Proven ability in capturing business and data integration requirements and preparing the technical specifications for the Engineering team.
• Proven ability to manage projects end to end and coordinate with different teams.
• Experience with process development and solid understanding of project life cycle and the capability to apply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations.
• Experience in capturing, analyzing, and illustrating process flows to identify efficiencies.
• Proven ability to deliver presentations to business partners using the appropriate approach.
• Demonstrated analytical and negotiation skills, and close attention to detail.
• Experience with Oracle suite (Oracle EPM, Oracle Financials) would be an asset.
• Experience with Agile Scrum / Kanban processes, and work management tools : JIRA, Confluence
• Advance knowledge of MS Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in SQL and knowledge of relational database concept.
• Understanding and knowledge of the Finance processes, including forecasting, budgeting, and planning (nice to have).
• System integration methodologies (ETL, JAMS) (nice to have).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Exemplifies CPP Investments' Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership 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.

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