Analyst/associate, Credit Investments

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 recruiting for a driven, adaptable individual as an Analyst/Associate to join the **Americas Leveraged Finance** subgroup in the Credit Investments department in Toronto. The Americas Leveraged Finance subgroup, which is part of the Capital Solutions Group, invests in corporate debt of non-investment grade sponsored and non-sponsored issuers in North America and Latin America. The group focuses on liquid and illiquid debt across the capital structure in the primary and secondary markets, including first lien loans, second lien loans, unitranche loans, high-yield bonds, convertible bonds, bridges, mezzanine debt and preferred equity. The Analyst/Associate will work in small teams evaluating direct lending investment opportunities, conducting research, building financial models, developing recommendations, participating in the negotiation and execution of investments and monitoring and managing investments.

**Americas Leveraged Finance** currently manages assets in excess of $18 billion, with individual investment size range targets from $100 million to over $1 billion. The Americas Leveraged Finance team is a sub-group within CPP Investments’ broader Capital Solutions Group which as a whole currently manages assets in excess of $29 billion. The Americas Leveraged Finance team has over 20 investment professionals.

**Role-Specific Accountabilities**:

- Research, analyze and evaluate credit investment opportunities across the capital structure
- Build financial models to assist in investment evaluation, structuring and financing
- Prepare and present investment recommendations to Investment Committees
- Assist in the negotiation of key deal terms, including legal documentation, and running a full private deal process
- Collaborate and manage relationships with various counterparties both internally and externally (investment banks, private equity sponsors, other lenders, etc.)
- Develop relationships with management teams as part of monitoring portfolio companies

**Qualifications**:

- 1 to 3 years of experience post undergraduate studies in either credit investing or at a financial services firm focused on leveraged finance, debt capital markets, private equity, consulting, corporate banking or investment banking
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and research skills including experience evaluating and building financial models
- Solid, demonstrated oral and written communication skills
- Experience in conducting complicated due diligence work under a compressed timeline, contributing to deal sourcing activities and working with external stakeholders (e.g. management, sponsors, investment banks, etc.)
- Ability to provide insightful thoughts regarding relative value across the capital structure and between different credits
- Desire to live in Toronto and willingness to travel for work
- Strong intellectual curiosity, a fast learner and a team player

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance then you should consider a career in Americas Leveraged Finance at CPP Investments.

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