CPP Investments | Investissements RPC Looking for Lead Business Analyst, Public Market Technology at Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

Job Description

You will work as a Lead Business Analyst in Trading Technology, Public Market Technologies team, partnering with CPPIB’s traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities. Successful candidate will be experienced in working closely with the business to gather and document detailed requirements and help iteratively provide solutions.

This position requires someone with high attention to detail, strong sense of creativity, ownership, integrity, and strong analytical & problem-solving skills. The candidate is expected to possess working knowledge in Capital Markets, coupled with the ability to translate business requirements into solutions while working with engineering.

Role-Specific Accountabilities

• Support the delivery on enterprise-wide initiatives through application of business analysis tools and techniques. Proactively identify issues involving workflow procedure and processes, identify opportunities for improvement, implement solutions, automate, and innovate.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions. Document and validate expectations with subject matter experts and drive the creation of strong system specifications that enable the development and/or acquisition of appropriate systems to meet business requirements.
• Collaborate with business & technology stakeholders to understand priorities, product roadmap, existing system and integration environments, and new business requirements to drive progress towards established objectives.
• Liaise with engineers, solution architects and business subject matter experts to brainstorm, develop and document innovative solutions alternatives. Evaluate alternatives relative to business requirements and provide advice that is rooted in deep subject matter expertise.
• Participate in process design meetings and translate outcomes into process documentation. Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts. Document key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers and business continuity plans for processes.
• Lead and mentor a team of business analysts and drive priorities to achieve the necessary business outcomes.

Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Competencies/Capabilities

• Undergraduate or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, working directly with the business and engineers to build complex solutions in the financial/investment industry.
• Ability in capturing business and data integration requirements and preparing the technical specifications for the Engineering team.
• Ability to adjust communication style to present technical and non-technical information to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Agent of change and continuous improvement in business processes and solutions.
• Work closely with Engineering team to develop and validate test cases to ensure the accuracy and completeness of solutions delivered.
• Experience with Agile Scrum/Kanban processes, and work management tools: JIRA, Confluence
• Experience working with relational database.
• Previous work experience with traders and investment professionals would be a strong asset.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Able to deliver in a constantly changing and fast paced organization.
• Other duties as required.

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.