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, 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
The Trade Capture & Support Team is a cross-asset group accountable for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of trade data across internal trade systems as well as working to resolve trade related issues with internal and external counterparties. Additionally, the team acts as an extension to the trading desk by providing support for non-trade execution functions. The team works closely with the trading desk, investment departments, as well as teams across middle office and operations to verify, enrich, and resolve trade issues across the various investment products.
The Associate will be expected to provide quality support for the firm’s public market trading strategies through handling trade capture, enrichment, and resolving inquiries from various internal & external stakeholders. Additionally, the Associate would be expected to assist and lead, where needed, in growing this team to be best in class while developing a robust & controlled operating model.
The position will require interaction with various investment professionals and global counterparties as well as superior time-management skills. The ideal candidate for this exceptional career opportunity is a self-starter who can turn ambiguity into actionable results and that thrives in a diverse and inclusive team.
Role-Specific Accountabilities
- Ensure assigned products and trades are accurately captured & enriched by prescribed cut-off times
- Provide support to junior team members with their assigned work and ensuring team deliverables are met within established timelines
- Work collaboratively with traders, technology & data partners, internal Ops teams, and counterparties to identify & resolve issues or opportunities related trades, workflows, and/or system improvements
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement by leading and/or contributing to initiatives at both the firm and team level with a focus on creating measurable operational efficiencies while adhering to robust controls & risk mitigants
- Contribute to the development of a robust operating model built on industry best practice
Qualifications
If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:
- Exemplify our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance as well being committed to embracing diversity and working to build an inclusive workplace
- 5+ years of demonstratable investment understanding and/or experience within middle office, preferably with a focus on trade lifecycle management across global markets & asset classes
- Direct experience with trade booking, enrichment & issue resolution would be an asset
- Demonstratable experience with identifying value-add/process efficiency opportunities and participation in implementation of same without necessarily having any prior experience with the subject matter
- Proven ability to structure communications, both written & verbal, to raise and resolve issues across all levels of the organisation
- Self-motivated, agile, with the ability to approach a constantly changing business & environment through innovation and creativity
- Demonstrable leadership experience with motivating & apprenticing peers and more junior teammates while ensuring your own deliverables are met
- Experience with any of the following: Murex, Simcorp, Traiana, Bloomberg AIM, Portware
Additional Information
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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.
What We Do
CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization with a vital purpose: to help provide a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement. To help maximize the CPP Fund for generations to come, we invest across all major asset classes: public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments.
With an international reputation as a leading institutional investor, our governance structure is recognized worldwide as a best practice for pension fund investment management. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney, we leverage our global reach and on-the-ground knowledge to continually diversify, build and grow the CPP Fund.
Our investment professionals partner with top core services specialists in finance, human resources, information technology, legal, public affairs and communications, investment operations, data management, treasury services and investment risk.
