Accounting Analyst, Real Estate Investment Operations (12 Month Contract)

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.

The Accounting Analyst is part of the Real Estate Investment Operations group within the Investment Operations Department.

This is a 12 month contract position where you will be responsible for investment operation activities for a set group of Real Estate investments.  This will require cross functional partnerships, understanding the full asset life cycle and being comfortable taking on processes end to end.

This position requires an individual who’s highly motivated with a strong analytical and accounting background.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Prepare daily/monthly/quarterly accounting entries, reconciliations, and reports.
• Support manager in the onboarding of new transactions including review of partnership agreements, structure changes including debt refinancing on existing investments, and dispositions.
• Management of the central inbox and the recording day to day transactions. Includes providing timely engagement with colleagues/external parties; and ensures requests are fulfilled in order of urgency and importance.
• Attend to the maintenance of existing investments by ensuring capital calls, distributions and commitment updates are appropriately reviewed, approved, and processed in the respective investment systems.
• Monitor cashflows and P&L activity to ensure investments returns are not impacted.
• Calculate economic carrying value and understand impact on returns. Investigate any discrepancies and determine appropriate course of action in a timely manner.
• Assist manager in supporting the investment department and responding to enquiries in a timely and professional manner.
• Work alongside our investment partners to ensure appropriate reporting and support are provided on a timely basis.
• Support cross functional work with other team members and departments to ensure we remain aligned with our vision, goals and values.
• Contribute to the preparation of documentation to support reviews conducted and to substantiate and demonstrate that adequate processes and controls have met regulatory requirements.
• Assist Manager to develop and enhance internal controls; monitor current procedures, reconciliations, and reasonability checks; streamline, automate, and enhance existing processes.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement and innovation mindset around how CPP Investments manages its investment operations.
• Other duties as assigned.

As the qualified candidate you possess:

• University degree in business or other relevant discipline
• Pursuing a professional accounting designation such as CPA
• 2-3 years of experience in a related role within the financial services and/or real estate investment industry
• Experience with Yardi, Simcorp, or other accounting software is considered an asset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to independently identify issues and determine course of action
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, with ability to foster effective working relationships internally across the organization and externally
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and multi-task whilst ensuring reporting timelines are met
• Proven attention to accuracy and detail
• Intellectually curious, self-motivated, flexible, and adaptable in a high performance and deadline-oriented culture
• Demonstrated good judgment and professionalism
• Ability to readily adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• A continuous learning mindset with a desire to learn about CPP Investments business and recommend innovative solutions to business problems
• Exemplifies CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance

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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.