Director, Real Assets Risk, 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

The incumbent will support the ongoing development and implementation of a risk assessment and management framework for CPP Investments’ Real Assets, Private Equity and Private Credit portfolio. 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 Real Assets portfolios and investments, with a focus on Real Estate investments.

The Real Assets & Sustainability Risk team is responsible for : 1). the risk oversight for Real Assets investments; and 2). the sustainability-related risk mandates for the Total Fund. With respect to the risk oversight for Real Assets investments, the team partners with the Real Assets Department 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 Estate, Infrastructure, Renewable and Conventional investments; providing independent views of key material transactions in support of its participation within the Real Assets Investment Committee (RAIC); providing risk analysis and insights at both the portfolio level and the asset level; and collaborate with Real Assets to enable its investment and risk management processes.

Primary responsibilities for this role include :

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