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

Valuations inform key decisions for the Fund, including asset allocation, risk management and financial reporting. Therefore, accurate, robust, timely and objective valuations are critical for delivering on our mandate and maintaining the trust and confidence of our stakeholders. The Valuations Group oversees valuation practices for all asset classes, geographies and strategies to provide assurance that all valuations serve the various business functions and needs across CPP Investments.

Reporting to the Director, Valuations, as a Manager, you will be primarily accountable for completion of the day-to-day valuation work, including contributing to the development of new valuation models and designing key mitigating controls to manage within reasonable limits. You will also assist with quarterly portfolio-level reporting to various stakeholders including the deal teams, Valuation Committee, Board Committees, and external auditors, generating insights that will enhance valuation practices.

Team Summary

The Valuations Group oversees valuation practices for all asset classes, geographies and strategies to provide assurance that all valuations serve the various business functions and needs across CPP Investments.

Accountabilities

• Plan and execute elements of the valuation processes and provide insightful valuation analysis to proactively identify material quarterly valuation movements.

• Work closely with Investment professionals worldwide to execute on the valuation process and onboard new deals as well as cross-functionally with other departments to ensure alignment with our vision, goals, and values.

• Manage external valuation process with advisors and auditors.

• Prepare detailed valuation reports and valuation highlights for inclusion in communication with deal teams, Valuation Committee, Audit Committee, and other board level reporting.

• Independently build and review complex financial models, assess, challenge, and test sensitivities.

• Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify historical performance trends, detect correlations, identify key value drivers, and perform calibration.

• Monitor global market events and quickly design valuation sensitivities and tests to assess the impact on a macro-basis.

• Conduct independent, thorough reviews and quality assurance checks on valuation work products to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to established methodologies and best practices.

• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging valuation methodologies, and best practices; identify areas for improvement and implement them in the valuation processes/frameworks.

• Provide mentorship for junior colleagues within the group.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field (i.e., Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, etc.)

• 6+ years of relevant experience in professional valuation services firms, pension funds, private equity and/or investment banking

• Completion or near completion of at least one relevant professional designation (CPA, CFA, CBV, etc.).

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); Advanced experience with tools such as Tableau, VBA, Python, SQL an asset

• Advanced understanding of key valuation standards and methodologies with excellent research financial modelling, analytical and valuation skills

• Team player with ability to deliver in a high-performance culture operating under time-sensitive deadlines

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with high degree of professionalism and ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner

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.