Associate, Strategy & Operating Office, Technology & Data

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

At CPP Investments, we are seeking a highly motivated and analytical Associate to join the Strategy & Operations team within Technology & Operations (T&O) department.  Reporting to Director, Strategy & Operating Office, the Associate provides support to leadership on governance and oversight of the portfolio of technology initiatives and enables the adoption of Agile and product-centric ways of working across the organization.  The Associate will support strategic and operational activities, with a particular focus on financial management and value realization from technology investments.  Key responsibilities include:

1. Portfolio Financial Management
   • Manage the end-to end financials of the technology initiatives portfolio, including budget planning, forecasting and tracking actuals against plan
   • Coordinate and manage the quarterly forecasting process for the technology initiatives portfolio
   • Conduct financial analysis and deliver actionable insights on portfolio performance, trends, and risks
   • Partner with Finance and product teams to ensure accurate financial reporting and tracking
   • Support and assist team leaders by providing training and responding to inquiries related to the portfolio financials and Strategy & Operations processes

1. Value Realization and OKR Alignment
   • Collaborate with product teams to ensure Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) align with business outcomes and strategic goals
   • Develop and maintain reporting frameworks to track progress on outcomes and communicate the value delivered by initiatives
   • Support the creation of dashboards and reports that showcase progress, impact, and return on investment

1. Agile Adoption Support
   • Support cross-functional teams in their transition to Agile and Product operating models by promoting best practices, tools, and frameworks
   • Coordinate and prepare materials for monthly meetings with product team leads and Product Owners (POs), ensuring clear communication of priorities, progress, and key updates
   • Support the quarterly outcome review process including facilitating cross-team dependency alignment activities
   • Contribute to the continuous improvement of portfolio governance processes, with a focus on agility, transparency, and value delivery

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or a related field
• 5 years of experience in financial analysis, strategy, operations, or technology portfolio management, ideally within the financial services industry
• Strong analytical skills and experience with financial modeling, forecasting, and performance reporting
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product management principles is a plus
• Highly organized, capable of multi-tasking and work independently
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (especially in Excel and Powerpoint)
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to create presentations or proposals directed at a senior management audience 

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.