Analyst/Associate Investment Research

Job title: Analyst/Associate Investment Research

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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

Position Description

We are currently recruiting for a full-time Analyst/Associate to join the Investment Research (IR) group within the Active Equities (AE) department in Toronto. The IR group is responsible for a variety of functions including deploying empirical research and analytics to enhance decision-making across AE as well as deploying thematic and empirical research to help AE better understand relative alpha opportunity and exploitability.

Reporting to a Managing Director within IR, the Analyst/Associate will play a crucial role within the Research and Alpha Analytics (RAA) focus area by providing research-driven insights to the Head of AE, the Head of IR and AE Management on potential investment process improvements, relative areas of alpha opportunity and the ability to exploit that alpha.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the RAA team in conducting ongoing research to maximize alpha generation across the AE department, including but not limited to research on position sizing proficiency, stock picking skill, countering biases and returns due to fundamental drivers
• Contribute to research that generates thematic and empirical insights into where the best relative alpha opportunities reside and the exploitability of that alpha
• Produce systematic analytics that allow the results of the empirical research to be broadly shared across AE
• Manage changes to the investment process including the implementation of changes stemming from findings of the empirical research that was conducted

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• Undergraduate degree in statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, economics, business or related fields
• 1 – 5 years of relevant work experience
• Experience working with large data sets (i.e. data sets that cannot be processed by a single machine), including data extraction, data manipulation, and data analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in programming using Python and SQL with familiarity of packages such as Pandas and Numpy
• A solid understanding of financial statement data is considered an asset
• Experience applying quantitative analysis on fundamental portfolios is considered an asset
• Experience with risk models (e.g. Barra) is considered an asset
• Knowledge of visualization techniques (e.g. Tableau or Power BI) is considered an asset
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and translate broad high-level questions into empirical tests
• Proven ability to work independently as well as to perform effectively in a team-oriented environment
• Self-motivated, flexible and adaptable
• Exhibit strong attention to detail and accuracy while meeting deadlines and working under pressure
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills both within a team as well as across different groups in an organization
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

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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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

Company: CPP Investments

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Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:47:24 GMT

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