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.

In this role, you will support the ongoing implementation of an expanded risk assessment and management framework for Total Fund Risk towards enhancing CPP Investments’ broader risk management practices. You will use your skills and knowledge to take advantage of RADAR, our new risk system developed to reimagine our overall risk management capabilities and build out Total Fund specific functionalities and capabilities within RADAR. With the support of the Total Fund Risk Oversight Team and the Risk Analytics team, you will develop tools and reporting to enhance the management and analytics of Total Fund Risk.  

We’re looking for an experienced professional who enjoys working with people, has hands-on knowledge of programming languages – Python preferred – and data, and likes to collaborate with others to solve challenging problems with technology in the Investment Risk domain.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation and integration of Total Fund risk data to RADAR.
• Design and develop tools to support risk analytics across Total Fund Risk. This includes top level Total Fund strategic risk metrics; cascading to Investment Department and strategy level to enhance ad hoc, daily, monthly, and quarterly risk reporting.
• Support development and efficiency of ongoing risk reporting through the development of tools and automation.
• Partner with groups across the organization in ambitious cross-department initiatives.

Key Functional Competencies:

• Practical experience using Python, particularly with respect to data and automation.
• Domain Knowledge: brings, or has keen desire to develop, knowledge a broad-based Investment portfolio and the markets in which they operate. Ideally brings prior experience gained at an asset manager, including knowledge of one or more of equities, fixed income, credit, or FX.
• Leverage knowledge and analytical mindset to understand and identify tools to support risk assessment and management of public and private assets.
• Relationship Builder: Builds strong relationships and partnerships within the group to build out the best-in-class analytics and reporting.
• Analytical Abilities: Analytical mindset, able to synthesize multiple sources of information and identify interplay within defined use cases.
• Initiative and Project Management: Able to take initiative, manage project timelines, engage with stakeholders, and support key business interests.
• Communication: Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to many different audiences. Ability to effectively share knowledge with team members on how to leverage tools to enhance reporting

Education and Experience:

• Relevant university degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Math, or Computer Science.
• Professional qualifications relevant to risk or alternative assets (e.g. CFA Charterholder, CAIA, FRM) an asset.
• Knowledge of programming languages, databases management, and data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Python, Microsoft Excel) desired.
• Meaningful (at least 5 years) relevant professional experience in the investment industry, preferably in an asset management or risk role.
• High level of numeracy, comfort working with, or experience in, quantitative approaches.

Other Interpersonal Skills and Capabilities:

• Demonstrates a growth mindset.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Embraces uncertainty and unstructured environments.
• Fast and eager learner.
• Deadline driven with the ability to prioritize competing work demands.
• Appreciates an intellectually challenging and dynamic work environment.
• Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of integrity, high performance, and partnership.

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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.