Analyst, Trade Support

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**:
We are currently recruiting for the position of Analyst, Trade Support within the Investment Operations Department.

The Trade Support team is accountable for supporting all Public Market and OTC Investments. The group is cross-asset and provides support for a range of products including cash equities, fixed income, FX, listed derivatives, and various OTC derivatives. These products are represented and serviced across multiple investment systems including Bloomberg (listed products), Murex (OTC products), SimCorp (listed and cash products) and Cadis (security and price master).

The Analyst’s primary responsibilities include ensuring trades are represented correctly in all systems and validating that end-of-day listed instrument prices are properly loaded to Accounting and Performance systems. Other responsibilities include developing and documenting business requirements, performing ad hoc business/data analysis, participating in related operational projects, and supporting daily data related inquiries from multiple business units.
- **Please note that this an end-of-day role with expected hours being 11:30am - 7:30pm**

**_ Role-Specific Accountabilities_**
- Performs End-of-Day pricing validation to ensure required market data is accurate and instrument valuations are correct. Validates pricing data using established exception handling tools and procedures
- Ensures that all trading activity is correctly represented in Investment and Accounting systems at End-of-Day
- Manages static data and content quality in applicable systems to meet end user reporting requirements
- Assists Manager & Associate in implementing key process improvements. Expectation to identify gaps and propose solutions to issues
- Escalates data and content issues on a timely basis. Takes ownership to resolve issues within the bounds of assigned authorities and communicates openly to stakeholders who are dependent on data for their risk, investment research and performance measurement processes.
- Supports investment trading strategies through portfolio setups and maintenance.
- Document’s data and business requirements
- Contributes to the development, implementation and testing of processes and procedures. Identifies opportunities to continually improve current processes, controls, data quality and/or efficiency.
- Must also be willing to take on other ad-hoc duties and projects as required

**Qualifications**:
**_
Skills/Knowledge/Competencies/Capabilities_**
- Willingness to work End-of-Day hours
- Working knowledge of derivatives products is preferred
- Experience in an Investment Operations environment with emphasis on supporting trading activity, pricing validation, and resolving derivative valuation issues
- Technical and analytical skills, ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors and recommend solutions for business process improvement
- Experience with Microsoft Excel considered an asset
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
- Strong desire to streamline and improve existing processes
- Can readily adapt to rapidly changing investment, business, and technology environments
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Working towards completion of CFA or financial designati