Analyst, Risk (12-Month Contract)

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 $600 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, 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.

Job Description

Role Overview
At CPP Investments, we are committed to helping you develop your skillset and gain world-class experience. We have leaders who listen to every member of the team and trust them with meaningful work. This translates into immediate and unparalleled learning.

We are recruiting for an Analyst in the Investment Risk (Private) Group within the Risk Department It was developed for high potential individuals who recently graduated from undergraduate or graduate university programs and who are interested in developing risk management expertise. It is designed for those who are highly analytical, interested in business issues and curious about career opportunities in risk management within the finance industry. The program provides you access to a virtual classroom and on the job training where you will learn how to leverage your problem solving and technical skills to help make real business decisions. You will be assigned both a manager and a mentor to help support your learnings from the classroom to apply in the workplace setting.

You will join us with a 12-month contract as an Analyst in the Investment Risk (Private) Group within the Risk Department. The Risk Department provides independent risk oversight of investment activities across all public and private investment departments. It is a critical component of the overall governance framework, which includes the constructive challenge over risk levels, alignment with performance expectations, and key investment and operational processes. The Risk Department’s aim is to help ensure assets are being managed consistent with our mandate and strategic objectives, as well as enable delegation by CEO to investment departments to allow for risk-taking by IDs. In addition to its governance role, the Risk Department, it also empowered to advise on value-add risk analysis that enables better decision-making leading to improved investment outcomes.

The Investment Risk (Private) Group primarily focuses on risk oversight for the following three investment departments: Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit Investments. The majority of the assets within these departments are private investments. The Group develops its risk insights by participating in Investment committees and providing independent assessment on material transactions; analyzing risk and return characteristics of each departments’ portfolio, both on absolute and relative to selected benchmark basis; identifying risk drivers (financial and non-financial) across all portfolios and developing risk models, methodology and operations.

You will advance your knowledge and expertise through skills-based training and on-the-job assignments. You are encouraged to participate in additional programs such as our Speaker Series where each session focuses on a different aspect of our culture including employee resource groups, inclusion, and diversity and much more. We encourage you to bring your authentic self to work and take every opportunity to excel in your role to build your career at CPP Investments.

Upon completion of your 12-month contract, you will be considered for a fulltime role.

Qualifications

Who We’re Looking For
We are recruiting for a 12-month contract role for students recently graduated or will be graduating from their post-secondary education program before the contract begins.

• We are looking for candidates with a strong track record of academic success, while balancing extracurricular activities. You must have a strong intellectual curiosity in learning and be adaptive of changing/evolving roles and responsibilities.
• Strong ownership mindset in developing your career, as well as possessing strong communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrate high competencies in both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Expected to work with large data sets supported with proficient programing skills (e.g., VBA/Python).
• Succinct writing and visualization are strongly preferred.
• Combine energy, enthusiasm, and intellectual curiosity, with a demonstrated interest in investing.

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 at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version) by Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:59pm 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.