Analyst, Real Estate Valuations

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**:
CPP Investments has an exciting opportunity in our Real Estate Valuations Group, a team with offices in Toronto and London, UK, who are responsible for developing an independent view of fair value for the $50 billion global real estate portfolio. The valuations of our investments are the basis for key decisions made to manage the CPP Fund, including asset allocation, risk management and financial reporting. The position is based in our Toronto office and is focused primarily on the Fund’s Americas real estate portfolio.

The investments in the Americas consist of a cross-section of institutional quality assets in Canada, the United States and Brazil, and represent about half of the global real estate portfolio value. The Analyst, Real Estate Valuations is responsible for supporting quarterly property and portfolio level valuations, analyses, and reporting, interacting with internal and external stakeholders, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of our valuation oversight and processes.

**Role-Specific Accountabilities**:

- Assist in quarterly real estate valuations and reporting deliverables for assigned portfolio(s)
- Identify, review, and incorporate relevant partner reporting and property information
- Research and integrate pertinent market activity, surveys, and commentary
- Build and maintain complex dynamic valuation models using Argus Enterprise software
- Review and assess external appraisals, collaborating with appraisers and internal stakeholders
- Challenge and test assumptions and sensitivities at the asset and portfolio levels
- Provide insightful valuation analysis to identify material quarterly valuation movements and drivers
- Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify performance trends, correlations
- Maintain and support the enhancement of portfolio schedules, data bases, reporting and analytics
- Report and defend valuation results to Valuations leadership, investment teams, and other internal and external stakeholders
- Establish relationships and coordinate efforts across multiple CPP Investments’ global offices, partners, and functions
- Support initiatives to evolve global processes and reporting
- Other duties and/or projects as required

**Qualifications**:
**Position Requirements**:

- Relevant undergraduate or advanced degree - real estate, valuations, business, economics, math
- Understanding of intermediate accounting and analysis of financial statements
- Interest in actively attaining AACI, or equivalent international professional accreditation
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- Commercial real estate experience preferred - valuations, investments, asset management
- Understanding of real estate valuation methodologies and practices
- Experience using Argus Enterprise is an asset
- Advanced user of Excel, competent in maintaining and analysing large sets of data
- Experienced with MS Office, familiar with Tableau or similar data-presentation tools
- Microsoft BI, VBA, Python, and/or SQL beneficial

**Who You Are**:

- Proactive, yet agile mindset
- Well organized with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Work capably independently, balancing multiple workstreams in a deadline-oriented environment
- Team player committed to group goals and initiatives
- Solid written and verbal communication