**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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians. CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a diversified portfolio, holding assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

**Job Description**
Reporting to the Director SimCorp, Risk & TFM Technology, the Lead Business Analyst will be responsible for configuring, supporting, and evolving end-to-end solutions that enable Finance and Operations departments. You will partner with business and technology departments to deliver on strategic priorities using agile methodologies.

**Major Accountabilities**
- Support the delivery on enterprise-wide initiatives through application of business analysis tools and techniques.
- Proactively identify issues involving workflow procedures and processes, identify opportunities for improvement, implement solutions, automate, and innovate.
- Drive the creation of strong system specifications to meet business requirements.
- Lead testing activities to ensure that deliverables meet business requirements.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to understand priorities, product roadmap, existing systems, and new business requirements.
- Liaise with engineers, solution architects, and business subject matter experts to develop and document innovative solutions.
- Evaluate alternatives relative to business requirements and provide advice rooted in subject matter expertise.
- Participate in process design meetings and translate outcomes into 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.

**Role-specific Accountabilities**
- Provide ongoing operational and system support to Accounting and Performance Book of Record (SimCorp Dimension).
- Engage in production issue resolution, root cause analysis, and implementation of controls to prevent reoccurrence.
- Assist in managing product backlog and roadmap, prioritization of work, and resource allocation on initiatives.
- Serve as a liaison between multiple stakeholders to communicate solutions effectively.
- Anticipate business or project issues and risks, make recommendations to mitigate, and recognize the need for flexibility.
- Escalate key decision challenges to management.

**Specialized Business and Domain Knowledge**
- Knowledge of Performance Measurement and Attribution functions including calculation of measurements and analytics.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to conduct complex data analysis.
- Experience in the financial services industry with knowledge of various asset classes and the investment lifecycle.

**Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience.
- 5 to 8 years of experience with SimCorp Dimension platform within the investment industry.
- Proven ability to liaise with business subject matter experts in gathering requirements, including experience with Investment Operations and Investment Accounting.
- High attention to detail and solid understanding of the project life cycle.
- Experience with Agile Scrum/Kanban processes and work management tools: JIRA, Confluence.
- Ability to adjust communication style for various stakeholders.
- Collaborative team player with a willingness to share practices and ideas across functions.
- Exemplifies CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership, and High Performance.

**Additional Information**
CPP Investments is committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. If you require accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.