Associate, Performance (12-month contract)

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

• Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
• A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. 

Job Description

As an Associate, Performance you will be responsible for investment performance measurement, monitoring, and reporting activities of CPP Investments. You will ensure that performance returns, benchmark returns, and performance attribution are calculated correctly by ensuring that analytical reviews, reasonability checks and established processes are completed and followed in accordance with CPP Investments’ Policies, Standards, Guidelines, and Procedure.

Accountabilities:

• Ensure that analytical reviews, reasonability checks and established processes outlined in CPP Investments’ Procedures are completed and followed.
• Prepare performance reports for investment groups and Management, conduct thorough analysis on performance results, explains performance results, investigates discrepancies, and brings issues to resolution.
• Develop tests and automating control checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information being used to calculate performance benchmark and attribution results.
• Develops User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing plans in partnership stakeholders for the execution of performance system upgrades and processes changes up and downstream to performance processes.
• Assists in the development of new performance metrics to meet performance monitoring needs of stakeholders and internal committees.
• Prepare timely performance reports, including highlighting any insights, for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting commitments with high degree of quality and accuracy.
• Provide performance Subject Matter Expertise in cross functional projects and initiatives by identifying issues, assessing implications, recommending solutions, and proactively managing tasks and timelines.
• Communicate performance results to stakeholders effectively, and actively participate in various discussions.
• Develops and fosters effective working relationships with other departments of CPP Investments

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, business administration, applied mathematics with a strong appetite for quantitative analysis
• 5+ year of relevant experience.
• Relevant professional designation or progression toward one (such as CFA, CIPM, CA, CMA, FRM)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Advanced knowledge of Python with a focus on analytical packages (e.g., Pandas, Numpy) is considered an asset.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.) 
• Experience with Jupyter Notebook, Amazon Web Service, QuickSight, and SimCorp Dimension is considered an asset.
• Understanding of performance measurement and performance attribution methodologies (i.e. time weighted vs. dollar weighted returns, arithmetic vs. geometric attribution, multi-currency & fixed-income attribution) an asset.

Additional Information

Visit our LinkedIn Career Page or Follow us on LinkedIn. #LI-Onsite #LI-EK1

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.