Associate, Infrastructure

**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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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.

The Associate will play a key role in making and managing direct infrastructure investments on a principal basis. The individual will work with and assist the wider team in evaluating infrastructure investment opportunities, with a focus on North America, but also global opportunities, conducting research, developing recommendations, participating in the execution of investments and monitoring, and managing investments.

**Team Description**

CPP Investments’ Infrastructure division directly invests in large-scale assets that provide defensive long-term returns, substantial inflation protection and possess mínimal substitution risks. The division typically targets investments in regulated utilities, transportation, telecommunication, datacenters and energy sectors with an equity investment size from $500 million up to several billion dollars. The division completed its first active investment in 2006, currently possesses more than 30 direct investments valued at approximately $60 billion and employs over 50 professionals across 6 global offices.

**Accountabilities**

**_ Analyze Investment Opportunities:_**
- Research, analyze and evaluate a variety of infrastructure investment opportunities
- Build complex dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities (including testing assumptions and sensitivities)
- Perform due diligence on opportunities including past and projected financial performance, quality of management teams, investment merits and risks, expected returns, regulatory environment, industry dynamics and other relevant factors
- Review 3rd party due diligence reports (legal, accounting, industry strategic reviews, environmental, etc.)
- Perform valuation analysis, including DCF, precedent transactions and comparable company analysis
- Meet with company management and review past performance, strategy, outlook, regulatory and industry issues, and other relevant topics as required
- Attend and participate in Infrastructure investment recommendation meetings
- Assist in presenting investment recommendations to investment committees

**_ Execute Infrastructure Investments:_**
- Assist with the overall execution of infrastructure investments
- Liaise with investment partners (other investors) and advisors (financial, legal, etc.)

**_ Monitor Infrastructure Investments:_**
- Monitor ongoing financial and operational performance of infrastructure investments
- Identify and help implement performance improvement initiatives at portfolio companies
- Assist in performing valuation reviews for Infrastructure Investments
- Assist in building and leveraging relationships with portfolio company management teams

**_ Build the Team:_**
- Participate in and contribute to weekly departmental meetings
- Share knowledge by coordinating and entering information into knowledge management databases
- Other relevant duties and projects assigned

**Qualifications**
- Commensurate experience in investment banking or private equity with an emphasis infrastructure is desirable
- A minimum of an undergraduate degree and a track record of academic achievement
- Strong research, financial modelling, analytical and valuation skills
- Professionalism and integrity
- Strong interpersonal skills and business relationship skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Flexibility, adaptability and initiative
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