Senior Associate, Strategy, Risk and Operations – Portfolio Construction & Risk

Job title:

Senior Associate, Strategy, Risk and Operations – Portfolio Construction & Risk

Company

CPP Investments

Job description

Company DescriptionMake an impact at a global and dynamic investment organizationWhen 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 DescriptionAs a Senior Associate, you will be responsible for conducting advanced investment research, building robust recommendations, and developing increasingly complex investment strategies. As a part of the team, you will also play an active role in driving initiatives that deliver on the group’s broader objectives.Team DescriptionThe Strategy, Risk & Operations (SRO) group oversees CMF’s portfolio strategy, operational and business strategy and portfolio construction and risk management. This includes responsibilities related to the department’s strategy, developing both annual and long-term investment plans, portfolio construction and risk management, program execution approach, and managing CMF’s overall operations. This role is focused on enhancing the CMF level portfolio construction and risk management.Accountabilities:

• Contribute to the research and development of increasingly complex investment strategies.
• Work directly with Investment partners to develop, test, integrate, and implement solutions for transformational initiatives
• Build and maintain models for portfolio construction, investment analysis, and risk management.
• Gather and synthesize information from a range of sources, including publicly available / proprietary research, internal subject matter experts and external specialists
• Participate in the strategic asset allocation process. This key role includes financial/statistical modeling, portfolio analysis, and portfolio construction work related to long-term asset allocation.
• Develop advanced quantitative skills to conduct research on different portfolio construction and risk modeling approaches.
• Stay abreast of the equity, fixed income, currency, commodity markets and macroeconomic trends to contextualize market-driven volatilities and short term/long term impacts on the portfolios.
• Assist in creating management and Board committee materials, including memos and presentations.
• Identify gaps in current tools and processes under guidance and collaborate with senior team members to prioritize improvements and developments.

Qualifications

• A graduate degree (Masters or higher) in a finance oriented discipline: Economics, Finance, MBA, Mathematical Finance, Financial Engineering
• 5-7 years of investment experience in a role such as top-down asset allocation, front-office quantitative research, or hedge fund portfolio management
• Knowledge of/experience with active investment management or asset allocation processes is a plus.
• Experience with the risk management of complex public market portfolios considered and asset.
• Strong quantitative, research, modelling and analytical skills with a solid understanding of econometrics / statistics.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills both within a team as well as across different groups in an organization.
• Experience with Tableau or similar visualization tools is considered an asset.
• Applied programming/scripting experience using Python (and associated stats libraries)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Additional InformationVisit our or Follow us on LinkedIn. #LI-LR1 #LI-OnsiteAt 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.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:18:35 GMT

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