Associate, Investment Structure Management

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**:
The Investment Structure Management (“ISM”) team is accountable for the operational deal structuring and end-to-end management of the investment life cycle. The team also manages the operating risks of CPP Investments’ group entities working with internal and external partners across Legal, Operations and Finance. It is a dynamic role that provides a great deal of insight and exposure to all aspects of our organization and comes with many project management responsibilities.

Reporting to the Manager, ISM, the person in this role will provide investment structuring support for onboarding, closing and post-close matters related to various investment opportunities, including new investments, and restructuring or dispositions of existing investments within the Real Assets portfolio. This person will also assist with various projects/initiatives, and in setting up and managing CPP Investments group companies.

You will work collaboratively with internal teams, external service providers and advisors, and will play a key role in a number of areas including, but not limited to:

- Support the Manager in the pre-close/structuring and ongoing maintenance of new investments, exits and restructurings, which includes:

- Work with internal and external partners to identify and address structuring and operational complexities of CPP Investments legal entity structures
- Coordinate the establishment of new legal entities and address legal and governance requirements in support of CPP Investments’ structures in partnership with investing departments and enabling functions
- Provide support for the structuring and transaction closing process for various investment products (e.g., track deal timelines, develop a detailed plan including steps and timelines, maintain meeting minutes and project-manage completion of pre-close activities amongst internal partners)
- Build trusted relationships with investing departments and understand nuances between asset classes to enable establishment of new or improved processes. Work with internal and external partners to document and implement such processes to effectively manage and mitigate operational risk between departments.
- Assist with the ongoing support to maintain and manage CPP Investments’ structures post-closing, which includes:

- Assist with the ongoing operational activities of wholly owned CPP Investment entities to ensure compliance with local legal and regulatory requirements
- Assist with, and in some instances be accountable for ensuring external and internal compliance deliverables are completed timely
- Assist with the quarterly reporting materials to provide visibility on operational and risk metrics
- Provide support to any other Managers or Directors in the team for any structuring or legal entity activities for other asset classes, as required
- Assist with workstreams relating to CPP Investments’ legal entity management system functionalities
- Assist with the coordination, execution and maintenance of team and department processes and procedures; identify potential gaps or risks in execution and propose effective solutions

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 5 years of related work experience (e.g., finance, consulting, private equity, accounting firm etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication s