Risk Management Specialist

1 day ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada CPP Investments Full time
Job Title: Manager, Total Fund Oversight, Investment Risk

About CPP Investments

CPP Investments is a global investment management organization that invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to ensure long-term sustainability. With assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, we are one of the most respected and fastest-growing institutional investors in the world.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Risk Management Specialist to join our Total Fund Oversight team. In this role, you will provide portfolio insights and risk oversight of Total Portfolio investment activities, working closely with other groups across Risk to generate meaningful analytics and insights that drive investment and risk management decisions.

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 utilizing 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.

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