Profile in expertise: Meet Natalie Gabba

Interview with Natalie Gabba, CPA , our Managing Director, Financial Performance and Business Initiatives, to understand her expertise and what sets her team apart at CDPQ.

Briefly, what do you do?

By virtue of my many collaborations with all business units, I benefit from a cross-functional vision of the organization. This enables me to effectively fulfill my role as finance business partner. In practical terms, my mandate is to maintain sound management of financial resources while ensuring that the organization has the resources it needs to carry out its business plan and accomplish its mission.?

The diversity on my multidisciplinary teams enables us to play our role on several fronts, optimizing existing processes and controls, producing comprehensive cost analyses to help decision-making on the organization’s orientations, and processing, monitoring and reporting on operating expenses and expense reports.??

I work closely with several teams on a daily basis, including Talent and Performance, Digital Technology, Global Strategy and the Finance group and Operations.??

What sets your team apart??

Our end-to-end, cross-functional view of CDPQ, combined with our business perspective, enables us to proactively support our colleagues across the organization, allowing them to focus on their core activities while ensuring optimal use of resources and sound cost management.?

For me, openness means understanding the reality of my stakeholders and working with them to give them the means to achieve their ambitions, while respecting our organizational constraints and depositors’ expectations.??

How do you make a difference??

By being aligned with the organization’s major priorities, our teams ensure optimal use of CDPQ’s resources, whether through forward-looking cost analyses, process improvements and best practices, or by keeping a close eye on operating expenses wherever CDPQ operates.?