Director, Internal Audit

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, 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. 

Job Description

Assurance and Advisory (A&A), CPP Investments’ internal audit group, provides independent and objective assurance over the design and operating effectiveness of CPP Investments’ governance processes and internal controls. Reporting to a Managing Director, Assurance & Advisory, the Director will be responsible for leading audit engagements, delivering the Audit Plan, and working collaboratively with our business to instill risk and control discipline across CPP Investments’ core activities. This role plays a key leadership role in shaping and executing A&A’s multi-year strategy, ensuring the function delivers meaningful value across the organization. The Director will leverage deep expertise in asset management and operations, risk management, internal controls, and data-driven insights combined with strong business acumen and advanced problem-solving to drive governance enhancements and support enterprise-wide priorities.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

Assurance & Advisory Execution

• Lead the planning, scoping, objectives setting, scheduling, and development of work programs under the direction of the Managing Director and in alignment with the Audit Plan.
• Identify risks and controls, appropriately assessing risk and concluding on control effectiveness to evaluate the impact on CPP Investments’ objectives and compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Exercise independent judgment and assess key and emerging risks, identifying control weaknesses and opportunities for improvement while recommending practical corrective actions.
• Ensure audit and advisory engagements are completed objectively, professionally, on time, and within budget, in accordance with corporate and industry audit standards.
• Apply a continuous improvement mindset by identifying opportunities to use data and technology to generate insights and improve the efficiency of audit processes.
• Identify and implement process improvements to support shorter, more targeted audits.
• Demonstrate agility by anticipating and adapting approaches to create value.

Business Partnership

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring a strong understanding of the business and optimal value from A&A’s work.
• Role-model our “no surprises” approach and maintain transparency with management.
• Embed enterprise-wide priorities into A&A, serving as a connector across the organization.
• Provide ongoing thought leadership and deliver insights beyond the scope of individual audits.

People Leadership

• Provide coaching, guidance, and support to junior auditors, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Oversee team members in planning and executing engagements while optimizing resources and maintaining quality.
• Foster an inclusive team environment built on trust and a safe-to-speak-up culture.
• Promote continuous professional development and innovation within the A&A team.

Culture Carrier

• Demonstrate the highest ethical standards and role-model CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of integrity, high performance, and partnership.
• Collaborate constructively with management to instill risk and control discipline across the enterprise.

Qualifications

Education & Professional Certifications

• University degree in accounting, business, finance, or a related discipline; a postgraduate degree is an asset.
• At least one of the following professional designations is required: CPA and/or CFA. Other relevant designations (CIA, CBV, PMP, CISA, etc.) are an asset.

Professional Experience

• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in consulting, internal/external audit, and/or risk management within large and complex financial institutions, public companies, or investment organizations.
• Demonstrated experience leading audits over public or private investing processes, asset management, portfolio management, and/or investment risk.
• Broad and deep knowledge of asset management, asset management operations, and their risk implications.
• Experience leading and managing audit/advisory engagements or large-scale projects.
• Knowledge of audit methodologies, risk management, and compliance practices, preferably in investment management or financial services.
• Experience applying data and technology concepts to enhance assurance and advisory activities is an asset.

Personal Competencies

• Superior written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts simply and effectively.
• Strong judgment, creativity, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to process large volumes of information and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Agility to adapt to rapidly changing business needs while maintaining attention to detail and consistency.
• Strong organizational/project management skills with the ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• Exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of integrity, high performance, and partnership.

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.