Senior Analyst, Credit Investment Operations (18-month contract)

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. 

As a Senior Analyst, Investment Operations, you will support Credit Investment teams with transaction management, asset servicing, investment accounting, reporting and valuations. You will also execute the day-to-day evaluation, accounting, and monitoring of relevant investment portfolios, covering all asset classes and security types. You will also assist group leadership in modernizing the team via automation and efficiency driven initiatives.  Note that this is an End-of-Day role with expected working hours being 11:30am – 7:30pm

Accountabilities

• Execute day-to-day management of investment operations functions; ensuring accuracy of trade tickets and accounting entries, completeness of supporting documentation, validation of transaction amounts and ensuring appropriate authorizations are in place to facilitate investment closings
• Partner with colleagues from the Investment Departments, Structuring, Tax and Treasury to successfully structure, close and fund transactions by proactively identifying and resolving operational issues
• Assist in the timely completion and accuracy of various reports and reconciliations relating to benchmarking, portfolio holdings and P&L
• Assist in the review of financial statements, note disclosures and management reports to ensure accuracy and completeness, as well as provide valuable insights and commentary
• Assist in the quarterly / annual valuation process for principal credit, intellectual property and structured product investments; provide insightful analysis to proactively identify material valuation movements
• Provide insightful analysis of operational or business issues and provide direction in determining corrective action; promptly escalate irregular activities or issues
• Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved and financial controls and reporting requirements are met
• Build a reputation as a subject matter expert in the private investments domain for issues related to investment operations and accounting
• Ensure ongoing compliance with reporting requirements and resolve discrepancies when exceptions occur
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes, create operational efficiencies and foster a culture of continuous improvement, enhanced controls and data integrity
• Ensure process documentation is kept up to date
• Prioritize workload in a timely fashion to meet deadlines

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
• 2-3+ years of relevant experience. 
• Experience using Investment subledgers or accounting systems considered an asset
• Strong analytical, financial and management accounting skills will be necessary to perform this role.
• Solid understanding of debt instruments and investment accounting
• Advanced Excel skills and interest in utilizing Gen AI tools it preferred
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership & high performance

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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.