Analyst, Balancing, Collateral and Liquidity 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. 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

The Analyst, Balancing, Collateral and Liquidity Management is responsible for supporting the execution of trades for all transactions in public market securities for the Fund (excluding credit). You will also be accountable for collaborating with the rest of the Trading team to deliver the group’s broader objectives.  

Team Description

We are seeking a candidate for an Analyst role within the Balancing, Collateral and Liquidity Management (BCLM), a part of the Total Fund Management (TFM) department based in Toronto, Canada. In collaboration with other TFM groups and various departments within the fund, the BCLM group is tasked with maintaining Total Fund exposures via the management of the Balancing Portfolios. Additionally, the group is responsible for monitoring and managing the Fund's liquidity and leverage positions, and ensuring total Fund positioning aligns with management and board limits.

Accountabilities:

• Assisting in implementing the fund’s leverage goals via secured borrowings such as Equity Swaps, SBL, Cash Prime, and Repo.
• Fulfilling short locates for our global equity programs through securities lending and synthetic/ cash prime brokerage.
• Performing daily portfolio management activities including re-rates, dividend monitoring, recalls, and corporate action elections.
• Managing day-to-day rebalancing and life cycle of Equity Total Return Swaps.
• Developing and maintaining external relationships across asset classes and regions.
• Reconcile P&L with investment operations across various portfolios and products.
• Support creation of weekly/monthly reports for internal stakeholders.
• Support investment teams with information flow, trade ideas, and data requests.
• Contribute to projects on various topics including portfolio management, trade execution, market structure and trade opportunities across a global portfolio

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in relevant field
• An advanced degree or certification (CFA) is an asset
• Up to 3 years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated interest in finance, investment management, and/or capital markets
• Experience with one or more programming languages is an asset (such as R, Python, C++/Java, VBA, Matlab, SQL, etc.)
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

Additional Information

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.