Manager, Expense Operations (10-month contract)

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 a Manager, Expense Operations, you will oversee and manage the end-to-end centralized expense processing for CPP Investments. The expense operation related functions include managing the accuracy and timeliness of expense processing within a robust control environment, the oversight of cash management, and monthly financial close process.

Team Description 

Our team is focused on delivering a best-in-class procurement and payables experience that is customer-centric, data-driven, and efficiency-focused. We operate with a service-oriented model that prioritizes value creation for both internal stakeholders and external vendors. By leveraging streamlined processes, advanced analytics, and proactive risk management, we reduce administrative burdens and improve compliance. Our strategy is grounded in strong supplier relationships, strategic partnerships, and continuous process improvement to support the Fund’s broader financial and operational goals.

Accountabilities:

• Oversee and manage the daily operations of the centralized global expense processing and payments for CPP Investments in accordance with policies and procedures. This includes the review/approval of vendor invoices, employee expenses and expense related adjustment entries.
• Develop and implement robust controls around vendor data, invoice data and expense accrual to maintain integrity of the books and records to support financial, tax and regulatory reporting.
• Manage the general ledger accounting functions, including Accounts Payable subledger close, variance analysis, the preparation and/or review of journal entries, reconciliations of general ledger balances.
• Work with Finance groups as well as 3rd party service provider to provide supporting analysis/documents/inputs into month-end close, tax filing, management reporting, and financial reporting.
• Proactively identify, enhance, and develop new processes. Drive process improvements with a broad view of building scalable and efficient processes taking into consideration industry best practices.
• Provide subject matter expertise to stakeholders on expense-related matters; respond to stakeholder and auditor queries on a timely basis.
• Promote the use and understanding of expense policies, systems and procedures to the team and other stakeholders across the organization, including the development of training materials.
• Partner collaboratively with finance and other internal stakeholders to resolve cross-functional issues and gaps. Propose and implement solutions that reflect an understanding of business needs, organizational impact and governance and controls.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• In-depth experience with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications; aptitude and interest in learning new software applications.
• Experience managing people, leading change, and building relationships with key business partners across the organization and within the team.
• Experience managing external banking relationships globally and vendor escalations
• In-depth experience with Oracle Financials would be considered an asset
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors, and recommend solutions.

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.