Analyst/associate - Strategy, Risk and Operations
3 days ago
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**:
We are currently recruiting for a full-time** Analyst/Associate** to join the Strategy, Risk & Operations group within the Capital Markets & Factor Investment department (“CMF”) in Toronto with a focus on portfolio construction and risk management. The Strategy, Risk & Operations group (SRO) plays a key role in aligning CMF’s investment strategy to operational execution by ensuring optimization of resources across the department. In addition to providing exposure monitoring and risk oversight, the risk function within SRO supports CMF’s Investment Committee on investment decisions to ensure that the department is utilizing its risk budget in an optimal and opportunistic way.
Reporting to the Managing Director, the Analyst/Associate will play a key role in the management of all risk processes, including position-level capture and modelling, risk/exposure assessment, portfolio optimization, and hedging activities.
**Role Specific Accountabilities**:
**A) Risk Management**:
- Actively monitor the investment portfolio to identify changing risk profiles and monitor the financial markets for significant events that may impact the risk profile of the portfolio.
- Develop leading-edge risk measures to report significant trends and portfolio characteristics.
- Develop and monitor stress tests relevant to the risk profile of the investment group/department.
- Monitor limits on key risk measures and sensitivities for each investment group/department and ensure they align with the risk-takers view of the portfolio.
- Design and enhance CMF’s suite of analytics and reporting.
**B) Risk System Management**:
- Maintain hierarchy of investment programs, benchmarks, and other components (i.e., investment scaling + position normalization) within the risk ecosystem.
- In collaboration with the Technology & Data team, automate and streamline risk production processes to ensure that processes are robust and minimize the time spent by the team on routine activities.
- Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the analytics produced by the current set of risk engines, which include RiskMetrics, HedgePlatform and Barra models.
- Continuously vet and improve risk modelling of investments across the entire CMF portfolio.
**Qualifications**:
**Position Requirements**
- Undergraduate or graduate degree(s) in fields preferably related to Business, Mathematical Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- Industry certifications, such as a CFA, CAIA, or FRM, are a plus.
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in financial markets. Hedge fund industry experience is preferred.
- Preference given to those with risk management or risk-taking experience on a trading desk, at a hedge fund, or at a buy-side organization.
- Familiarity with a wide range of asset classes and hedge fund trading and investment strategies is a strong positive.
- Familiarity with major industry standard risk engines, such as RiskMetrics, Barra or Axioma is a plus.
- Detail oriented with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present ideas to all levels of the organization in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.
- A track record of meeting deadlines with the ability to work well under pressure.
- Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integri
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