Manager, Data Analytics and Innovation, Assurance & Advisory

** 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 $3.6trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, 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.
** Role

Summary:

** Assurance and Advisory (A&A) provides independent and objective assurance over the design and operating effectiveness of CPP Investments’ governance processes and internal controls. Reporting to the Director, Data Analytics & Innovation, the Manager will play a key role in advancing the use of innovative data analytics and intelligent automation solutions within A&A.
This role combines strong technical proficiency with strategic insight to enhance audit efficiency, risk intelligence, and the application of emerging technologies within assurance practices. The successful candidate will have deep experience in handling complex data sets, developing insightful dashboards, and leveraging cloud and AI technologies to deliver data-driven assurance insights.
** Accountabilities &

Qualifications:

**** Accountabilities
* ** Support the implementation of A&A’s data analytics and innovation roadmap in alignment with the broader assurance strategy.
* Analyze large and complex data sets across multiple domains to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for enhanced assurance coverage.
* Develop and maintain advanced analytics dashboards and visualization tools to enable continuous auditing and real-time insights.
* Collaborate with the Director to introduce and embed AI platforms, AI agents, and intelligent automation (e.g., Microsoft Power Platform, Blue Prism) into audit processes.
* Apply data science and automation techniques to optimize risk-based audit planning, testing, and reporting.
* Evaluate opportunities to deploy Generative AI (GenAI) - Copilot, ChatGPT and similar AI-assisted tools to accelerate insight generation and knowledge management.
* Support experimental pilots demonstrating advanced analytics, machine learning and predictive insights that align with A&A and enterprise objectives.
* Champion data governance and data management best practices across the A&A analytics initiatives.
* Continuously collaborate with enterprise data teams to ensure adherence to governance frameworks, data lineage, and access management protocols.
* Maintain a comprehensive understanding of CPP Investments’ data ecosystem and systems supporting key business processes.
* Contribute to the improvement of data quality and architecture supporting analytics and reporting within A&A.
* Partner with A&A colleagues and enterprise stakeholders to identify and deliver opportunities to embed analytics into audit processes.
* Support knowledge sharing and coaching initiatives to strengthen data literacy and analytical capabilities across the A&A team.
* Actively contribute to A&A’s…