Job Specifications
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.
Job Description
We are recruiting an Analyst, Business Management within the Private Equity department based in Toronto. The role will focus on data and analytics leveraging CPP’s various applications and data platforms to build technology solutions, supporting the department’s strategic priorities and portfolio analytics requirements. This individual will partner with Technology & Operations, Finance and other departments to evaluate data availability, quality and relevance to support PE’s business requirements and support the creation of data solutions and applications to PE’s leadership team. The role requires adaptability in balancing ongoing recurring responsibilities with ad-hoc project-based work aligned with the department’s evolving priorities.
The ideal candidate will have strong data analysis skills, ability to query data using SQL & work on large data sets using Python and capability to deliver dynamic advanced analytical solutions by providing an integrated and independent view of key investment and business metrics, such asself-serve monitoring reports. In this role, it is critical to be able to multitask and work well under pressure, learn systems and processes, possess a strong attention to detail and an ability to collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholders and departments. Additionally, the candidate should demonstrate a keen usage of and interest in Gen-AI, such as coding tools like Cursor and AI APIs. The successful candidate will be a self-starter and an active listener, who asks questions to attain clarity and can develop concise communication to be shared both internally and externally.
Team Summary
The Private Equity (PE) department is responsible for all of CPPIB’s private equity investments globally, excluding real assets. By investing in funds, secondaries, and directly in private equity, we seek opportunities to build a global, diversified portfolio that will outperform comparable passive public alternatives over the long term. The Private Equity Business Management group leads business management activities that support the operations of the investment department in an efficient and effective manner.
Key Accountabilities
Utilize advanced analytical techniques with multimodal datasets to enable insight generation and advanced portfolio analytics to support investment decisions.
Partner with PE’s investment and technology professionals, Technology & Operations and other departments as needed to develop tailored solutions addressing PE’s data, analytics and reporting requirements (investment holdings, performance, capital, etc.).
Support as-is and to-be process design flows, identifying efficiencies and leveraging the capability of digital resources.
Work across teams to design management reporting solutions, including creation of impactful and dynamic visuals and applications.
Contribute to the on-going effort to expand department-wide knowledge sharing and collaboration including efficient access to data used by the investment teams.
Coordinate user requirements gathering and provide testing support for new departmental systems and tools.
Execute on ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support business management and investment decisions.
Demonstrate flexibility in balancing recurring deliverables (e.g., portfolio monitoring, performance dashboards) with evolving and time-sensitive projects across the department
About the Company
CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization with a vital purpose: to help provide a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement. To help maximize the CPP Fund for generations to come, we invest across all major asset classes: public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments.
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