Principal, Infrastructure

**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.

The Principal, Infrastructure Investments, plays a leadership role in analyzing investment opportunities across a variety of companies, performing due diligence processes, building financial models to evaluate investments, negotiating terms, executing transactions and managing the investment portfolio.

**Team Summary**

CPP Investments’ Infrastructure division directly invests in large-scale assets that provide defensive long-term returns, substantial inflation protection and possess mínimal substitution risks. The division typically targets investments in regulated utilities, transportation, telecommunication, datacenters and energy sectors with an equity investment size from $500 million up to several billion dollars. The division completed its first active investment in 2006, currently possesses more than 30 direct investments valued at approximately $60 billion and employs over 50 professionals across 6 global offices.

**Accountabilities**:

- Contribute to setting the relevant investment strategy; help to organize deal pipeline, provide investment screening support and execute principal transactions
- Lead research, analysis and evaluation of a variety of investment opportunities including managing the overall evaluation process
- Build working relationships with colleagues and leaders across the firm, company management teams and investment partners, and third-party advisors.
- Perform and manage detailed due diligence processes (including scoping and hiring third-party advisors)
- Manage assets and develop value creation plans by analyzing board materials and collaborating with management teams regarding requests for information and initiative status.
- Oversee development of complex financial models to assist in investment evaluation, structuring and financing
- Lead the negotiation and execution of agreements and other transaction-related documents
- Develop detailed investment committee recommendations and take a major role in both presenting and answering challenging technical questions
- Oversee and manage multiple external parties (lawyers, accountants, tax and commercial advisors etc.) and begin to build new relationships with advisors / partners to help with deal sourcing
- Assist in the monitoring of existing portfolio companies.
- Oversee and mentor junior members of the team, be able to troubleshoot issues / questions and to offer guidance and support.

**Qualifications**
- 7-10 years of relevant work experience. A combination of buy-side and sell-side experience would be an asset
- An advanced degree or certification (CFA) is an asset
- Infrastructure or energy sector expertise is desirable but not mandatory.
- Significant relationship management experience including primary responsibility for managing relationships with portfolio companies and other external stakeholders
- Strong research, analytical, financial modeling, valuation, problem solving skills and ability to think creatively
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing.
- Experience managing successful negotiations with multiple stakeholders and executing a wide range of agreements

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