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 Analyst, you will be responsible for implementing components of investment models that are used for total fund portfolio decisions. As a part of the team, you will also play an active role in supporting initiatives that deliver on the group’s broader objectives.
Accountabilities:
Contribute to implementing components of investment models and portfolio analytics used in strategic asset allocation and portfolio rebalancing.
Work directly with Investment partners to research, develop, test, integrate, and implement total fund quantitative models.
Apply programming expertise, optimization, linear algebra or numerical analysis techniques during the implementation to ensure robustness of algorithms and code.
Engage with quant researchers and portfolio managers to clarify specifications written in their respective business languages, ensuring completeness and correct interpretation.
Assess and communicate the impact of upcoming modeling changes on portfolio metrics that drive trading decisions.
Be mentored by experienced team members who will aid you to tap into your expertise and blend it with new skills learned on job.
Qualifications
Strong programming skills – Python, Git
Solid math foundation in linear algebra, statistics, or optimization theory
Undergraduate degree in relevant STEM field
An advanced degree is an asset
From 0 to 3 years of relevant work experience
Knowledge of/experience with portfolio asset allocation is considered an asset.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Additional Information
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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.
