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\' 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.



The Public Credit Group is part of the Credit Investments (CI) department at CPP Investments. CI manages $38 billion of assets and is responsible for all CPP Investments\' public and private credit investments globally. CI provides debt financing solutions across the entire credit structure, including term loans, high-yield bonds, mezzanine lending, structured products and other solutions for borrowers in all sectors. The Public Credit Group is primarily responsible for portfolio management, trading and event driven active management strategies investing in various credit products globally for CPP Investments.

We are currently recruiting an intern in the Public Credit group, for a four-month internship from January to April 2024. Candidates in an undergraduate program that will be graduating in September 2024 or later are eligible to apply.

The work will broadly include:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leverage programming skills in Python and SQL to developing proprietary analytical tools and enhance existing risk reporting and performance analysis tools
• Work closely with Public Credit portfolio managers and the Quantitative team members to enhance current models in place and add new features
• Monitor credit markets and macro environment to contribute to research and trade idea generation

Ad-hoc projects analyzing and making recommendations on topics such as portfolio management, market structure, macro environment and investment opportunities.

Qualifications

Position Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will be graduating from an undergraduate and graduate program in September 2024 (or later) and is working towards a degree in math, engineering, business, economics or computer science.
• Experience with programming languages (such as Python, SQL, R, VBA HTML) will be considered an asset.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and an interest in working in a dynamic collaborative environment.
• Interest in finance/investment management.
• Knowledge of managing databases is a plus (MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle).
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Excellent academic performance.
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments\' guiding principles of high performance, integrity and partnership.

Additional Information

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance then you should consider a career in Credit Investments at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version) by September 10, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST.

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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, Sydney and Hong Kong 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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