Manager, 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 Toronto to join our Real Estate Valuations Group. The Manager, Real Estate Valuations, reports to the Director for the Americas, and is a member of the team 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.

**Role-Specific Accountabilities**:

- Support the quarterly valuation deliverables, processes, controls, and reporting
- Develop a solid understanding of the properties, markets, and enterprise operations for your portfolios, enabling you to support the business as an independent and objective partner
- Identify and facilitate the exchange and use of relevant partner reporting and property information
- Maintain market acumen, and foster relationships in global investment, brokerage, peer, and appraisal communities
- Research and integrate pertinent market activity, surveys, and commentary
- Grow relationships and coordinate efforts across multiple CPP Investments’ global offices, partners, and functions
- Review external appraisals and contribute to developing and shaping review processes to global best standards
- Independently prepare property valuations, building and maintaining complex dynamic Argus Enterprise and Excel models
- Develop and provide insightful valuation analysis to identify material quarterly valuation movements and drivers
- Report and substantiate valuation results to valuation, finance, and investment leadership, and internal and external auditors
- Assist with the integration of your regional results with global portfolio results, reporting and analytics
- Contribute to evolving valuation processes and reporting towards global best practice; support efforts to mature the risk, governance, and control frameworks
- Other duties and/or projects as required

**Qualifications**:

- Relevant undergraduate or advanced degree - real estate, valuations, business studies
- AACI, MRICS, MAI or equivalent globally recognized professional real estate valuation accreditation
- 10+ years commercial real estate valuation experience across multiple asset classes
- Proven expertise in commercial property valuation and portfolio level reporting and analytics
- Deep understanding of valuation standards and methodologies
- Experience and foundational knowledge to challenge stakeholders on valuations
- Excellent analytical skills and business judgement
- Proven experience managing people, processes, and stakeholders, supporting change initiatives, and collaborating across teams
- Effective communication and relationship building skills in both a virtual and in-person environment
- Solid Argus Enterprise and Excel valuation modelling skills for complex institutional assets
- Advanced user of Excel, competent in maintaining and analyzing large sets of data
- Experienced user of Tableau, MS Office Power Point, Word, and Outlook; VBA an asset

**Who You Are**:

- Proactive mindset
- Well organized with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Work capably independently, balancing multiple workstreams in a deadline-oriented environment
- Team player with a focus on group goals an