Manager, Total Fund Oversight, Investment Risk

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

In this role, you will join the newly created Total Fund Oversight team to provide portfolio insights and risk oversight of Total Portfolio investment activities.

You will use your skills and knowledge to help shape the growing mandate of the Total Fund Oversight team, enhancing the current risk management framework, and refining processes that govern key market, credit, liquidity, and leverage risks.

You will work collaboratively with other groups across Risk, including the quantitative risk team and both Public and Private market risk oversight teams, leveraging key risk systems to generate meaningful analytics and insights that will drive investment and risk management decisions.

• You will be responsible for the execution of key Risk deliverables, including : the development of best-in-class Risk Management policies, frameworks, methodologies, and practices;
• the planning and execution of risk assessments for CPP Investments’ key risks; monitoring and tracking against key risks and reporting to Senior Management Team (SMT) and the Board;

and other cross-department initiatives as required.

Key Responsibilities :

• Provide meaningful total portfolio insights and effective challenge through a deep understanding of portfolio risk factors, strategic portfolio targets and portfolio management activities.
• Provide risk oversight and monitoring of key risks relative to risk limits and thresholds across the Total Fund, covering both public and private assets.
• Work closely with the Total Fund Management team (TFM) to provide risk oversight of the investment and financing activities undertaken.
• Proactively enhance risk assessment processes and best practices to ensure that all key risks are identified, defined, assessed, and documented in a standardized manner, and vetted with risk and control owners.
• Work alongside the Risk Analytics and Models team to review, develop, and enhance risk models and methodologies pertaining to Total Fund Risk metrics, including market, credit, concentration and counterparty, liquidity, and leverage
• Leverage and support enhancement of existing analytical tools, including our internally developed risk system.
• Partner with groups across the organization in various cross-department initiatives.

Qualifications

Key Functional Competencies :

Domain Knowledge : possesses strong investment acumen gained via relevant experience in a pension fund or asset management firm.

Should be comfortable applying standard investment risk analytics, and a desire to combine quantitative analysis with fundamental assessment of investments to generate meaningful total portfolio insights.

• Relationship Builder : Builds strong relationships and partnerships both within the group as well as with external stakeholders such as investing and trading teams.
• Collaborative Mindset : Collaborate with internal stakeholders on new products and reporting requests utilising your knowledge of risk measurement and financial products to provide valuable insights and guidance.
• Analytical Abilities : Analytical mindset, advanced understanding and application of investment risk analytics as it relates to all aspects of portfolio risk management
• Initiative and Project Management : Able to take initiative, manage project timelines, engage with stakeholders, and support key business interests.
• Communication : Proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely to many different audiences, including senior management.

Education and Experience :

• Relevant university degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Math, or Computer Science.
• Meaningful (at least 10 years) relevant professional experience in the investment industry; with experience in an investment risk or portfolio management capacity preferred.
• Professional qualifications relevant to alternative assets ( CFA Charterholder, CAIA, FRM) would be an asset.
• Solid working knowledge of Python, database management, and data visualization software ( Tableau) would be an asset.
Il y a plus de 30 jours