Jobs at University Pension Plan (UPP)

Supports monitoring and due diligence for active public-markets equity strategies. Responsibilities include reviewing investment managers, monitoring long-only and long-short portfolios, conducting research and analysis, and developing reporting tools to track thematic exposures, portfolio risks, and manager activity. The intern will also complete a core analytical project and participate in manager review meetings.

Supports trading, liquidity, currency hedging, derivative exposure monitoring, and fixed-income portfolio management. Builds trade-generation, exposure-monitoring, database, application, and automated reporting tools across asset classes. Performs quantitative and ad-hoc analysis to support trading activities and workflow improvements within a pension investment team.

Administer pension benefits and transactions, including calculations, data reconciliation, contribution monitoring, payment accuracy, statutory reporting, and compliance with plan provisions and legal timelines. Serve as a pension subject-matter expert, review cases, resolve member-data issues, support payroll and transactions teams, provide stakeholder reporting, and recommend service and process improvements.

Leads strategic pension communication plans and stakeholder engagement for members, employers, associations, unions, and other partners. Develops clear, accessible content across presentations, newsletters, booklets, and digital channels; simplifies complex pension information; maintains brand consistency; and coordinates multiple communication projects from planning through delivery. The role also manages timelines, collaborates with internal and external creative teams, advises business units, and builds trusted stakeholder relationships.

Supports private markets research and due diligence through secondary research, stakeholder coordination, presentation editing, and asset management reporting. The intern collaborates with internal and external stakeholders and contributes to investment-related projects in a hybrid Toronto environment.

Supports pension administration calculations, actuarial funding and investment valuations, data validation, assumption research, peer plan analysis, and committee or board presentations. The intern also assists engagement, corporate finance, audit requests, and pension services while developing calculation verification tools and performing complex pension benefit calculations. This is an eight-month hybrid internship in Toronto for an undergraduate actuarial or mathematical sciences student.

Leads pension member and contribution data reconciliation, reporting, quality controls, governance, and root-cause remediation. The role analyzes large datasets, develops dashboards and data quality indicators, supports statutory reporting and pension valuations, and serves as a subject matter expert for internal teams, employers, and stakeholders. It also mentors junior staff, documents data standards and controls, coordinates issue resolution, and translates complex pension data issues into business impacts and recommended actions.

Supports public markets portfolio management through data engineering pipelines, analytical tools, quantitative investment-manager analysis, generative AI research, documentation, system setup, business-process implementation, and ad hoc reporting across public equity, public credit, and absolute return asset classes.

The Senior Analyst, Private Equity will support UPP’s private markets strategy and private equity portfolio through investment research, financial modeling, valuation, risk and performance analysis, due diligence, transaction structuring, and portfolio management. The role involves evaluating new opportunities, monitoring market conditions, engaging with external partners, and integrating ESG considerations into investment processes. The position is hybrid in downtown Toronto and requires collaboration with internal stakeholders and external investment partners.

Supports pension administration through annual statement production, pension benefit and indexation calculations, data cleansing, proof-of-life initiatives, and other pension services projects. The intern will develop and test calculation tools, review complex member calculations, and collaborate with pension data and policy teams, actuaries, legal advisors, and senior management. The role requires strong Excel and numerical skills, attention to detail, communication, adaptability, and professionalism.

The Analyst, Investment Operations manages investment accounting, portfolio reporting, reconciliations, trade matching and settlement, custody oversight, compliance, audit support, and financial reporting documentation. The role analyzes discrepancies, maintains investment activity records, supports capital call and distribution reporting, and improves operational controls and processes. It also collaborates with investment teams, fund managers, administrators, custodians, and auditors while supporting special projects and process enhancements.

Leads pension data governance and operations, establishing data standards, quality metrics, controls, reconciliations, issue remediation, and executive reporting. Partners with pension operations, technology, finance, actuarial, legal, privacy, risk, employers, and members to improve data integrity, compliance, service delivery, and operational outcomes. The role also supports implementation of a new pension administration solution, develops training and service practices, and leads teams responsible for member transactions, pension payroll, and reporting and analytics.

Leads UPP’s enterprise data strategy and capabilities, including governance, quality, engineering, integration, operations, metadata, analytics enablement, and cloud data platforms. Builds and manages a high-performing data team, establishes standards and roadmaps, improves data reliability and discoverability, and partners with business, technology, cybersecurity, architecture, privacy, and AI teams. The role supports trusted reporting, automation, and responsible AI while enabling business users to work with data safely and effectively.

Manages pension data quality operations, controls, validation, issue resolution, governance, reporting, and continuous improvement. Oversees data quality metrics, root-cause analysis, remediation, audit documentation, and risk-based prioritization across employer and member data. Partners with Pension Services, Technology, Data, and employers to improve source data and system processes. Leads and develops a team responsible for monitoring, testing, defect management, and data quality controls while ensuring pension administration accuracy, compliance, and service-level performance.

Supports UPP’s private markets investment strategy and infrastructure portfolio through investment research, valuation, risk and performance analysis, financial modeling, due diligence, transaction structuring, and portfolio management. The role evaluates new investment opportunities, monitors market conditions, incorporates ESG considerations, and collaborates with external partners and internal stakeholders. It is based in Toronto under a hybrid work policy.