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 incumbent will support the ongoing development and implementation of a risk assessment and management framework for CPP Investments’ Private Assets Strategies.
Reporting to the Managing Director of the Real Assets & Sustainability Risk team, the primary responsibility of the role is to provide risk oversight for the private investments, with a focus on real assets investments.
The Private Assets Risk teams (Real Assts Risk, Private Equity Risk, Private Credit Risk) partners with other risk oversight teams, risk analytics & model team and the Investment Departments (Real Assets, Private Equity, Credit Investments) to provide : 1).
- Independent risk oversight and governance, including constructive challenge over risk levels (and alignment with performance expectations) as well as key investment and operational processes;
- and 2). Advice and value-add risk analysis to enable better decision-making that leads to improved investment outcomes. The team is responsible for identifying, quantifying, and monitoring risks associated with real assets investments (, real estate, infrastructure, renewable and conventional energies;
- providing independent views of key material transactions in support of the participation within the Investment Committees;
providing risk analysis and insights at both the portfolio level and the asset level; and collaborate with Private Equity and Private Credit Investments to enable its investment and risk management processes.
Primary responsibilities for this role include :
- Assist in the preparation of independent risk assessments on Real Assets, Private Equity and Private Credit transactions, with a focus on Real Assets.
- Fundamental analysis of direct investments and private funds to assess risk profile and identify key risks; Assess financial and business risks and recommend appropriate risk measures
- Monitor the risk profile of the assigned portfolio(s) through asset-ownership period including proactively identifying key emerging risks, likely impacts and potential mitigating measures.
- Identify emerging risks, macro and mega-trends that may impact the investments, portfolios, and strategy. Quantify / quality the potential impact.
- Support the development and evolving of portfolio-level analytics, analysis and reporting to articulate portfolio risk insights to the senior audiences.
- In-depth analysis of the risk / return profile of the investment relative to other investments and / or benchmarks
- Collaborate with Real Assets, Private Equity, Private Credit to enable its investment and risk management processes
- In partnership with the quantitative risk team, enhance the quantitative modeling and develop alternative risk analytics.
- Support risk leadership team and CRO in their respective roles in Investment and Management Committees
- Support the regional risk oversight in Europe and Asia
- Evolve the risk oversight engagement model with Real Assets, Private Equity, Private Credit and other stakeholders groups (TFM, PAC, Legal, OCSO, Finance) to achieve deeper exchange of information as One Fund.
- Other relevant duties and projects as assigned
Qualifications
- Undergraduate or advanced degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Finance, or other relevant discipline
- A minimum of 7 years of direct work experience in investment management or financial services industries with exposure to direct investments, private assets / funds and associated investment processes
- Solid experience in risk management / oversight of the private direct investments.
- Consideration to individuals with portfolio or fundamentals-based risk assessment experience or deal team experience that have the requisite skill set and desire to transition to risk management.
- Very strong communication skills (oral, written, presentation, and visualization) and interpersonal skills
- Displays a high degree of professionalism, with the ability to manage internal and external relationships
- Proficiency in building and running financial models
- Strong quantitative, financial, and analytical skills
- Open to and comfortable with constantly evolving and changing priorities and new challenges
- Ability to prioritize competing work demands.
- Self-starter who relishes taking the initiative.
- Ability to deliver in a high-performance culture operating under time-sensitive deadlines
- Demonstrate ability to collaborate and work in teams, while also being self-motivated and able to work independently
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