Director, Compliance

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Director, Compliance (Legal) to join our Compliance team in our London office.  You will have an opportunity to join CPP Investments’ global Legal and Compliance team and provide innovative and practical advice and direction on a range of challenging ethical and compliance issues facing a global asset manager of CPP Investments’ size and scope, with its critical and unique public purpose.
 
We’re seeking a candidate to join a dynamic team of high performing legal and compliance professionals who engage directly across the Fund with all levels of leadership and business units to help them navigate, understand and comply with regulatory requirements and internal governance expectations.  The compliance program is rooted in in our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance and executes its mandate aligned with our risk framework.  We achieve this by deploying an engaged partnership model, balancing the need for controls with a global team that is engaged in substantively ‘getting it right’.   

If you share a passion for performance, a collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

The Director, Compliance (Legal) will be accountable for:

• With the global Compliance team:
  • Contributing to our Fund-wide culture of compliance and creating an environment safe to raise the hard issues.
  • Preparing and overseeing the implementation of appropriate compliance policies and procedures.
  • Monitoring new developments in global laws or regulations applicable to CPP Investments and helping shape advocacy where appropriate, in coordination with other internal colleagues or peer organizations.
• Working closely with the Head of Compliance in helping the team meet objectives and drive innovation in CPP Investments’ compliance culture and practices. 

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Advise on enterprise compliance matters, with a focus on our London office.
• Address Code of Conduct-related queries, processes, and certifications in a timely manner.
• Acting as a primary resource on global privacy issues.
• Develop recommendations on organization-wide procedures and controls by assessing business impact, risk and peer best practices on enterprise compliance issues.
• Act as a thought leader to develop and/or implement policies, procedures, systems and training to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry practice and general risk management, including working CPP Investments colleagues on appropriate regulatory advocacy and policy-making.
• Contribute to innovation in the Fund’s approach to compliance to ensure alignment with the overall corporate
• Prepare compliance reporting for use by the Senior Management Team and Board of Directors.
• Support our global crisis-management team.

Qualifications

• LL.B. or Juris Doctor Degree.
• MBA and/or CFA, CPA or other industry designations desirable.
• Commensurate compliance experience at a law firm or the legal or compliance department of a large reporting issuer or financial firm including experience with securities legislation and regulations.
• Experience in financial services and/or a transactional background considered an asset.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to work cooperatively with many different stakeholders.
• Ability to manage outside counsel.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• An accomplished leader who embraces accountability and ownership of role and deliverables.
• Professional conduct reflecting the quality of work, demeanor, ethical values and high standards of CPP Investments.

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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.