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, Sao 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.



Total Fund Management Department

The Total Fund Management ("TFMaEUR) department focuses on management of total fund activities across all investment horizons that will have a dynamic and direct impact on the Fund's overall performance. It is responsible for the successful implementation of the Fund's investment framework. These activities are focused primarily on the Strategic Portfolio, our long-term vision for the intended investment portfolio composition five or more years into the future. TFM also works with the active Investment Departments to effectively characterize and allocate to active investment strategies, with the aim of delivering the Strategic Portfolio over time. TFM also works on the total Fund daily investment cycle, including all the processes, systems, and data needed to structure the investment portfolio in response to the on-going flow of cash and exposures into and out of the Fund. TFM also performs centralized trading to manage execution risk across all public assets (excluding credit) and markets on behalf of all investment departments. TFM consists of six groups: Active Investment Management; Applied Research and Models; Exposure, Leverage and Liquidity Management; Portfolio Design & Construction; Strategy & Operations; and Trading.

We are presently recruiting for a Senior Analyst join the Business Management team within the Strategy & Operations group in the Total Fund Management department. Reporting to the lead of Governance, Financial Management & Technology stream, the Senior Analyst will help the Strategy & Operations team define, prioritize, and deliver on key initiatives critical to CPP Investments.

As a member of the team providing centralized support to the Chief Investment Officer, the Senior Analyst will support a wide range of activities, broadly classified into three areas: (1) Governance and Compliance, (2) Financial Planning and Analysis, (3) Technology.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

Governance and Compliance

• Support coordination of Investment Governance activities including the creation of new Governance documents and managing the approval cycle for existing documentation.
• Coordinate key compliance activities within the department and assist in creating new processes to ensure compliance with various governance requirements, balancing robust controls with efficient processes for the department to follow.
• Build departmental relationships to effectively collaborate on key activities and connect with business management peers across the Fund to share and understand best practices.

Financial Planning

• Assist with annual financial planning cycle to set the department operating budget and validate cost objectives.
• Assist monthly operating cost reporting, highlighting key trends and preparing analysis into the underlying drivers. Develop and update monthly forecasts of key cost categories.
• Assist with quarterly investment cost forecasting, comparing actual costs against cost expectations and collaborating with TFM team leads to understand the impacts of strategy changes on our investment cost profile.
• Identify and escalate potential issues in data, analysis, and processes.
• Provide timely, accurate and relevant information/analysis that facilitates better decision making and brings value-added insight to data received.

Technology

• Manage department file storage and communication hubs, offering guidance and publishing best practices to enable department to effectively store and share information in line with access management principles
• Support annual and on-going prioritization of technology-driven initiatives, acting as liaison between various technology teams and representatives within the department
• Assist department members with technology-related requests to help them understand related policies and refer them to the appropriate partners in Technology and Data

Team

• Engage in on-going cultural initiatives, in close collaboration with department Talent Council.
• Provide support as needed to take minutes for investment committees, synthesizing key themes in a clear concise manner and noting action items

Other duties as required, including the opportunity to support project management of key initiatives.

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we'd like to hear from you:

• A bachelors or graduate degree in business, finance, mathematics, or engineering
• 2-3 years of work experience in a dynamic role in the financial services industry
• Superior analytical skills and a strong attention to detail and understanding of how to summarize messages
• Ability to effectively manage toward timelines on multiple concurrent initiatives, keeping managers and colleagues apprised of progress and seeking assistance as required
• Self-motivated, organized, flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and new challenges
• High degree of personal responsibility for quality of work and timelines, with a proven track record of leveraging feedback to improve the process and quality of end product
• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and work in a high-performing culture, under pressure and with time-sensitive deadlines
• Ability to think critically and creatively, and exercise good judgment
• Highly effective interpersonal and relationship building skills; high degree of professionalism
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills
• Exemplify our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
• Achievement or pursuit of professional designations such as the CFA are a plus

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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.