Associate, Real Estate Valuations

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 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**:
CPP Investments has an exciting opportunity for an experienced real estate valuer to join our Real Estate Valuations Group, a team with offices in Toronto and London and responsibility for developing an independent view of fair value for the $48 billion global real estate portfolio. The valuations of our investments are the basis for key decisions made to manage the CPP Fund, including asset allocation, risk management and financial reporting. This position reports to the Manager, Valuations in our Toronto office and is focused on the Fund’s Americas real estate portfolio.

The investments in the Americas consist of a cross-section of institutional quality assets in Canada, the United States and Brazil, and represent about half of the global real estate portfolio value. The Associate, Real Estate Valuations is responsible for quarterly property and portfolio level valuation and analysis, managing related internal partners and external stakeholders, and supporting efforts to develop and strengthen our valuation oversight and processes.

**Role-Specific Accountabilities**:

- Own and manage the quarterly valuations and reporting deliverables for assigned portfolio(s)
- Identify, coordinate, review, and incorporate relevant partner reporting and property information
- Research and integrate pertinent market activity, surveys, and commentary for assigned portfolio(s)
- Foster relationships in relevant investment, brokerage, and fee appraisal communities
- Build and maintain complex dynamic valuation models using Argus Enterprise software
- Manage external appraisal relationships and deliverables for assigned portfolio(s)
- Review and assess external appraisal reports and services, collaborating with external appraisers and internal stakeholders
- Challenge and test assumptions and sensitivities at the asset and portfolio levels
- Provide insightful valuation analysis and reporting to identify material quarterly valuation movements and drivers
- Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify performance trends, correlations
- Maintain and support the enhancement of portfolio schedules, data bases, reporting and analytics
- Report and substantiate valuation results to valuation and investment leadership, and internal and external auditors
- Coordinate with broader RE Valuations Group to integrate regional portfolio results, reporting, and analytics
- Own and manage reports and schedules for assigned portfolio(s), collaborating with regional and global counterparts
- Establish relationships and manage stakeholders across multiple CPP Investments’ global offices, partners, and functions
- Work with senior valuation leadership to evolve global processes and reporting
- Mentor junior team members
- Other duties and/or projects as required

**Qualifications**:
**Position Requirements**:

- Relevant undergraduate or advanced degree - real estate, valuations, business studies
- AACI and/or equivalent international professional accreditation
- 7+ years progressive commercial real estate valuation experience across multiple asset classes, in Canada, U.S., Brazil
- Solid understanding of valuation standards and methodologies
- Proven expertise in commercial property valuation, ideally for IFRS financial reporting purposes
- Advanced modelling skills for complex institutional assets using Argus Enterprise, Excel
- Foundational knowledge to challenge stakeh