Analyst, Operational Controls & Systems

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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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 Operational Controls & Systems team primary focus is ensuring CPPIB’s accounting book of record is accurate by performing position and cash reconciliations against our Custodian, Prime Brokers and various banking partners. The team is also a product owner of a centralized reconciliation tool named Duco. The team builds and maintains various reconciliations for other functional groups across Operations.

As an Analyst, Operational Controls & Systems you will support the Investment teams with start of day and end of day reconciliations, asset servicing, investment accounting, reporting and valuations for either public or private assets. You will also assist with basic day-to-day evaluation, accounting, and monitoring of relevant investment portfolios covering all security types and asset classes.

Role Accountabilities:

• Review and oversight over daily cash and position reconciliation processes, including:
  • Accounting book of record to Custodian Reconciliation
  • Accounting book of record to banking partner reconciliation
  • Reconciliation utility maintenance
  • Generation and analysis of daily firm wide account balances.
• Providing reporting of cash and position exceptions across the organization, including monthly metrics, Month End Exception reporting and daily exception signoff.
• Develop and implement new reconciliation processes for stakeholders across various operational areas, while providing support for business analysis.
• Cross-train with teammates on related roles within the team to provide flexibility in coverage of operational activities.
• Assist in developing and maintaining policies and procedures.
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes and create operational efficiencies. Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved, financial controls and reporting requirements are met.
• Other ad-hoc reporting, analytics and projects
• Proactively build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues in Operations, Technology, and the Investment Departments.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience. 
• Professional designations such as a CBV, CFA, CPA are considered an asset.
• Experience with Duco is considered an asset.
• Basic understanding of different programming language is considered an asset.
• Strong analytical, financial and management accounting skills will be necessary to perform this role.
• Strong Excel skills and comfortable learning new systems.

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.