Manager, Investment Structure Management

**Company Description** Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization**

When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.

CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.

CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:

- Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility
- Global career development opportunities
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
- A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
- An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.
**Job Description** Job Summary**

As a Manager, Investment Structure Management, you will provide advanced investment structuring support to investment teams and ensure consistent and accurate management of the operating risks of CPP Investments’ group entities throughout the full investment life cycle, working with other partners in Legal, T&O and Risk. Please note this is a one-year contract position.

**Team Description**

The Investment Structure Management (“ISM”) team is accountable for setting up and managing the holding structures, onboarding new investments and end-to-end management of the investment life cycle. ISM also manages the operating risks of CPP Investments’ legal entities while working with other partners in Legal, Finance and Operations. It is a dynamic role that provides a great deal of insight and exposure to all aspects of our organization and comes with project management responsibilities.

**Accountabilities**
- Act as a SME in supporting pre-closing/ structuring and ongoing maintenance of new investments, exits and restructurings, which include:

- Ensure adequate documentation is produced to support each key step of the transactional process.
- Coordinate the establishment of new legal entities and address legal and governance requirements in support of investment structures in partnership with investment teams and core services teams.
- Provide advanced support for increasingly complex structuring activities (e.g., maintaining minutes, tracking deal timelines, coordinating completion of activities amongst internal partners etc.)
- Provide ongoing support to maintain and manage CPP Investments structures post-closing, which includes:

- Maintain ongoing operational activities of wholly owned CPP Investments’ entities to ensure compliance with local legal and regulatory requirements.
- Take ownership and be accountable for ensuring external and internal compliance deliverables are completed promptly.
- Prepare and maintain department policies and procedures; identify potential gaps or risks in execution and propose effective solutions.
- Build trusted relationships with investing departments and understand nuances between asset classes to enable establishment of new or improved processes. Work with internal and external partners to document and implement such processes to effectively manage and mitigate operational risk between departments.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation around how CPP Investments manages its investment structures
- Partner with other internal CPP Investments colleagues to work on cross-functional workstreams and initiatives

**Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field.
- 6+ year of relevant experience.
- Relevant professional designation (e.g., CFA, CPA) or progression toward one is an asset.
- Experience working with low code / no code workflow tools (e.g., Mendix), knowledge of programming languages such as Python and using tools like Tableau is an asset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to identify issues and determine course of action in situations with little or no precedent, analytical and holistic thinking is required.
- Strong technical skills and investment industry knowledge.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
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