Senior Business Analyst, Total Fund Management Trading, Public Markets Technology
Apply NowCompany: CPP Investments
Location: Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1
Description:
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, So Paulo, and Sydney.
CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:
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
You will be part of the TFM Trading Technology in the Public Market Technology 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.
As a Sr Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing operational and project management support for technology initiatives. By leveraging your analytical skills and technology expertise, you will take ownership of assignments, help drive clarity, analyze business requirements, and communicate requirements to the technology team.
Accountabilities:
Qualifications
Additional Information
Visit our LinkedIn Career Page or Follow us on LinkedIn. #LI-KE1 #LI-Onsite
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.
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, So 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
You will be part of the TFM Trading Technology in the Public Market Technology 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.
As a Sr Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing operational and project management support for technology initiatives. By leveraging your analytical skills and technology expertise, you will take ownership of assignments, help drive clarity, analyze business requirements, and communicate requirements to the technology team.
Accountabilities:
- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions. Document and validate results 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.
- Liaise with application developers and CPP Investments' business subject matter experts to brainstorm 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 translating outcomes into as-is and to-be process design flows, identifying efficiencies and leveraging the capability of digital resources.
- Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts. Document the key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers and business continuity plans for processes.
- Apply analytical and technical skills to investigate day-to-day system and business issues, determine the root cause and deliver viable solutions.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation of business requirements, functional specifications, and project deliverables. Generate reports and update roadmaps for stakeholders, executive leadership, and project sponsors to communicate project status, risks, and issues.
- Facilitate running Agile ceremonies like Daily standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives and removing impediments.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
- 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Proven process development skills and solid understanding of project life cycle and the capability to apply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations.
- Proven ability to liaise with business subject matters in gathering of business requirements.
- Exceptional (written and verbal) communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- 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.
Additional Information
Visit our LinkedIn Career Page or Follow us on LinkedIn. #LI-KE1 #LI-Onsite
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.