Job Description

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, S\xc3\xa3o 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\xe2\x80\x99 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\xe2\x80\x99s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



The Associate/Manager, Public Markets Middle Office will primarily be responsible for leading the Benchmark Rates Transition and New Rates Onboarding work at CPP Investments as part of Public Markets Middle Office. The role provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing regulatory initiatives for Public Markets. The role will be expected to develop into a process expert by coordinating efforts to work with the trading desks and downstream stakeholders to ensure successful transition to new reference rates.

In addition to the Rates Transition workstream, the incumbent will also have an opportunity to work on New Products Implementations as part of the New Products and Activities team within Public Markets Middle Office.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Lead working with various business lines to deliver new Risk-Free Rate (RFR) product support, capabilities, and ensure that any business process changes are considered and built into project delivery plans.
• Ensure that all tasks from the project plan are tracked in JIRA and clearly, consistently communicated across all teams.
• Facilitate resolution/escalation of any issues, manage interdependencies and ensure that all key risks, issues and pending decisions are brought forth promptly.
• Drive business analysis and initial assessment of systems and business process impacts for any new reference rate onboarding and/or transition requests.

• Adhere to governance for project implementation; document detailed requirements and obtain senior management signoff across stakeholder groups.
• Liaise with Public Markets Investments, Total Portfolio Management, Operations, Finance, Risk and counterparties and vendors to implement objectives of the target operating model.
• Provide leadership and direction to junior team members

Qualifications

• University Degree in Finance or a related field. CPA, CFA and six sigma certifications are considered assets.
• Business Analysis and/or Project Management experience with regulatory and reference rate transitioning projects (e.g.: LIBOR to SOFR) is preferred.
• 5-10 years of experience in capital markets operations, risk, due diligence, business analysis, or finance environment is necessary
• Working knowledge of public markets investment products (esp. loans, derivatives) trade lifecycle and operational risk controls
• Exposure to atlassian tools like JIRA and Confluence would be an asset.
• Diligent and detail oriented, logical, analytical thinker and practical problem solver.
• Strategic thinking and proactive in seeking out and implementing well designed and controlled operational processes
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas in a manner that can be more easily understood by a wide audience
• Demonstrated experience building and retaining solid working relationships internally and externally, including senior-level personnel
• Able to exercise sound professional judgment
• Exemplifies our 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.

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.

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