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
As an Associate, Financial Reporting, you will help ensure the accuracy and integrity of CPP Investments’ financial reporting processes. You will lead pieces of work focused on preparing legal entity financial statements, applying, interpreting accounting policies and guidelines, and supporting the execution of special projects aimed at enhancing financial reporting efficiency and effectiveness.
Team Description
The Subsidiary Reporting Team is responsible for preparing and reviewing financial reporting for the organization’s subsidiaries. The team ensures compliance with accounting standards, internal policies, and external regulatory requirements.
Accountabilities:
- Coordinate and help prepare the quarterly and annual financial statements, including the financial statement notes in accordance with IFRS and support external reporting requirements by preparing/reviewing monthly, quarterly, and annual investment and financial schedules, reconciliations, and audit requests.
- Work closely with various departments and stakeholders to review and analyze supporting schedules, reflect the financial statement impact of new investment products and seek ways to improve current reporting efficiency and accuracy.
- Oversee ongoing operational activities of wholly owned CPP Investments’ entities to ensure compliance with local legal, regulatory, external and internal requirements and take ownership for completing all compliance deliverables in a timely manner.
- Coordinate with third-party service providers to ensure timely communication of investment changes, financing activities and any relevant information to assist in producing accurate financial information for reporting.
- Review financial statements prepared by third-party service providers for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with CPP Investments policies and standards.
- Maintain proper documentation of financial reporting processes and controls and drive process improvement initiatives to standardize and automate financial statements preparation and reporting processes by leveraging functionality of existing systems.
- Support special projects, cross functional initiatives, and/or ad hoc reporting as assigned.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (i.e., Finance, Accounting, Business, etc.)
- 5+ year of relevant experience in financial reporting in investment management, pension fund or financial services industry
- Chartered Professional Accountant designation (CPA)
- Familiarity with corporate, financial, and regulatory filing requirements in various jurisdictions is an asset.
- Excellent understanding of IFRS and the ability to quickly grasp internal controls over financial reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to identify issues and determine course of action in situations with little or no precedent, analytical and holistic thinking is required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other Office applications
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.
