Analyst, Private Funds Operations

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 an Analyst to join the Private Funds Operations team in Investment Operations, reporting to the Manager, Private Funds Operations. 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 and can manage time well. You must have strong interpersonal and business relationship skills and enjoy working across Core Services and the Investment Departments.   

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

Trade Life Cycle Expertise

• Preparing trade tickets and accounting entries by ensuring figures agree with transacted amounts, confirming completeness of supporting documentation and making sure that appropriate authorizations are in place
• Partnering with colleagues from the Investment Departments, Structuring and Business Management, Tax, and Treasury to successfully close and fund Investment transactions by proactively identifying and resolving operational issues
• Preparing quarterly valuation and ensuring valuation adjustments are accurately recorded
• Help in identifying irregular activities and issues and assist the Associate or Manager determine corrective actions
• Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external Fund Managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved, financial controls and reporting requirements are met. This will mostly be done through the monitoring of a group inbox

Investment Accounting & Reporting

• Ensuring timely completion and accuracy of daily transactions and holdings reconciliations
• Tracking the receipt of quarterly financial statements, tax statements and other documents as requested
• Assist in providing data for financial statements, note disclosures and management reports while ensuring their accuracy and completeness
• Recording Capital Call and Distribution transactions in the accounting software

Process Improvement

• Ensuring process documentation is kept up to date for existing procedures
• Continually strive for operational excellence by seeking ways to streamline processes and create operational efficiencies
• Prioritizing workload so that all deadlines are met
• Working on special projects and other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• University degree in Finance, Commerce, or other relevant discipline
• 1 to 3 years of experience in a related field
• Comfortable with working on ambiguous and/or new tasks independently
• Excellent critical thinking skills
• Able to apply established processes and workflows to new tasks
• Good understanding of private equity funds is an asset
• Advanced Excel skills and comfortable learning new systems
• Team player who enjoys working in a high performing culture and is open to evolving and changing priorities
• Capable of contributing to cross department projects and workstreams
• Willingness to actively contribute to a positive and highly effective team culture
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with high degree of professionalism
• Solid prioritization and organizations skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Self-starter, flexible and adaptable
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership & 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.