Associate, Performance Measurement

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**:
Reporting to the Manager/Senior Manager, the Associate is responsible for investment performance measurement, monitoring and reporting activities of the CPP Investments. The Associate will ensure that performance returns, benchmark returns and performance attribution are calculated correctly by ensuring that analytical reviews, reasonability checks and established processes are completed and followed in accordance with CPP Investments’ Policies, Guidelines, and Procedures.

**Role-Specific Accountabilities**
- Ensures that analytical reviews, reasonability checks and established processes outlined in CPP Investments’ Procedures are completed and followed
- Prepares performance reports for investment groups, conduct thorough analysis on performance results, explains performance results, investigates discrepancies and brings issues to resolution
- Assists in developing tests and automating control checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information being used to calculate performance benchmark and attribution results
- Automates and streamlines existing processes within Performance Measurement
- Participates in UAT testing for system upgrade or enhancement
- Prepares timely investment commentary and performance measurement reports for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting commitments with high degree of quality and accuracy
- Provide performance Subject Matter Expertise in cross functional projects and initiatives by identifying issues, assessing implications, recommending solutions, and proactively managing tasks and timelines
- Independently lead or run small projects
- Communicate investment results to related parties effectively, and actively participate in various discussions.
- Develops and fosters effective working relationships with other departments of the CPP Investments
- Other duties as required

**Qualifications**:

- At least 7+ years of relevant experience. Understanding of performance measurement and performance attribution methodologies (i.e. time weighted vs. dollar weighted returns, arithmetic vs. geometric attribution, multi-currency & fixed-income attribution) an asset.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills will be essential in this role. Able to present ideas in a clear and precise manner
- Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, business administration, applied mathematics with a strong appetite for quantitative analysis
- Working towards or completion of a Professional designation - CFA, CIPM, CA, CMA
- Proficient in SQL and Python. Experience with VBA and SimCorp Dimension is considered an asset
- Strong problem solving skills and ability to think creatively
- Ability to use critical thinking skills to tackle challenging problems in an innovative way
- Ability to learn and deliver quickly in a high performing culture
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Exhibit high attention to detail and accuracy while meeting deadlines and working under pressure
- Exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles

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