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Associate/Manager, Private Assets Risk, Corporate Credit – Investment Risk

CPP Investments
Toronto, ON, CA
$83.2K-$124.4K a year (estimated)
Full-time

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

The incumbent will support the ongoing development and implementation of risk assessment and management framework for CPP Investments’ Private Assets Strategies.

Reporting to Director, Credit Investments Risk, the primary responsibility of the role is to provide risk oversight of the investments in private assets with a focus on credit investments.

The Private Assets Risk teams (Credit Investments Risk, Real Assets Risk and Private Equity Risk) partners with other risk oversight teams, risk analytics & model teams and the Investment Departments (Credit Investments, Real Assets and Private Equity to provide : 1) Independent risk oversight and governance, including constructive challenge over risk levels (and alignment with performance expectations) as well as key investment and operational processes;

and 2) Advice and value-add risk analysis to enable better decision-making that leads to improved investment outcomes. The team is responsible for identifying, quantifying, and monitoring risks associated with credit investments by providing independent views on the transactions as well as risk insights at the investment and portfolio levels.

Primary responsibilities for this role include :

  • Preparation of independent risk assessments of Credit Investments transactions including corporate debt, structured finance, and real asset debt
  • Fundamental analysis of direct investments and credit funds through assessment of business and financial risk profiles
  • Monitoring risk profile of the assigned portfolio(s) by conducting regular investment reviews and proactively identifying any emerging or developing risks
  • Collaboration with Credit Investments deal teams to support their investment and risk management processes
  • Supporting development and implementation of portfolio-level reports & analytics to communicate portfolio risk insights to various stakeholders within CPP Investments
  • Enhancement of quantitative modeling and risk analytics of the credit investments portfolio in partnership with the quantitative risk team
  • Contribution to various projects to evolve and enhance the current risk processes

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate or advanced degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Finance, or other relevant discipline
  • A minimum of 7 years of direct work experience in investment management or financial services industries with exposure to direct investments, private assets / funds and associated investment processes.

Candidates from the rating agencies will be also considered

  • Experience with corporate credit is required whilst experience with structured finance and real asset debt is an advantage
  • Consideration to individuals with portfolio or fundamentals-based risk assessment experience or deal team experience that have the requisite skill set and desire to transition to risk management
  • Strong quantitative, financial, and analytical skills. VBA and Python skills are not necessary but welcomed
  • Very strong communication skills (oral, written, presentation, and visualization) and interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work in teams, while also being self-motivated and able to work independently
  • Ability to prioritize competing work demands and to deliver under time-sensitive deadlines
  • High degree of professionalism with the ability to manage internal and external relationships
  • 30+ days ago
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