Associate/manager, Investment Risk

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**:

- daily oversight of production risk reporting mandates
- lead a team of risk professionals in executing daily and periodical risk reporting and monitoring functions
- consistently provide guidance to the team in overcoming daily operational challenges to achieve optimal reporting outcomes under sensitive timelines
- develop thorough understanding of constraints and limitations associated with the risk reporting processes and be able to identify opportunities for improvements
- be involved directly in the design of solutions to address process weaknesses or enhancement in coordination with the Solutions Engineering team within the Risk Analytics team, wider Investment Risk group and Technology & Data division
- facilitate, where appropriate, user testing and integration of tactical and system monitoring tools into data integrity validation process for daily production reporting activities
- lead the delivery of key measures to internal/external stakeholders during critical reporting periods

This position requires someone with high attention to detail, a strong sense of integrity and ownership, solid understanding of risk measurement principles, and a strong operational background and/or working experience in an operational capacity.

**Position Requirements**
- Support critical daily production reporting activities and compliance monitoring requirements
- Identify potential areas of operational weakness, investigate root cause, and propose solutions to address these shortcomings
- Present significant data/PV/risk discrepancies with detail supporting analysis and recommendations
- Perform periodical (month-end) reconciliation process on sensitivity measures including DV01, FX and CS01 at the fund level
- Develop and maintain specific operational procedures and schedules for data governance and production reporting activities
- Maintain centralized website/storage of procedural documentation related to production reporting risk processes and activities
- Work with other functional teams to develop key operational reports to analyze general data health and to surface potential data/control gaps
- Work with data service departments to identify and source necessary market, proxy and benchmark data, and ensure the on-going accuracy, sustainability and suitability of such data
- Develop and foster effective working relationships across the CPP Investment Board and external risk service providers
- May require to accommodate early work schedule (8am to 4pm)

**Qualifications**:

- Undergraduate or advanced degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Math or other relevant discipline with a strong appetite for quantitative and statistical data
- 5-7 years of work experience in the Investment/Capital Markets risk management area
- Experience in an operational role considered a strong asset
- Professional designation; CFA, CA, CAIA, FRM or other would be an asset
- Strong analytical and problem solving abilities and financial skills
- Strong working knowledge in Excel, Access and PowerPoint
- Ability to build/enhance reporting BI solutions in Tableau
- Experience with MSCI RiskMetrics and/or Moody’s RiskFrontier considered an asset
- Familiarity with data vendors such as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters and their product offerings
- Flexibility and adaptability. Abilit