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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, 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.

Portfolio and Risk Engineering (PRE) is a team within Investment Engineering & Analytics that builds and operates the data, production models and engineering systems that support portfolio construction and risk across Capital Markets and Factor Investing. We deliver consolidated portfolio views, canonical data feeds, risk attributions and production risk tooling to enable portfolio-level decision making, hedging and risk operations, and we lead the engineering and process work to integrate and productionize those capabilities.

The Analyst, Portfolio and Risk Engineering will Design and develop production-grade systems for risk monitoring, portfolio construction, portfolio monitoring and hedging; build tooling and automation that turns quantitative models and signals into resilient production services. You will work with both structured and unstructured data to surface portfolio insights, explain exposures and support hedging decisions; implement, test and productionize model changes and build monitoring, alerting and explainability around model and data health; and partner with portfolio managers, trading and Risk to translate business requirements into engineering solutions. The role will also develop and integrate GenAI-based tools and workflows to extract information from text and reports, automate monitoring and improve portfolio understanding and explainability.

Job Description:

Accountabilities

• Contribute to the research and development of investment strategies
• Support development of proprietary research methodologies through application of advanced analytical techniques
• Design and develop portfolio analytics and visualizations
• Assist Investment and internal partners in the preparation of ongoing and ad-hoc investment performance reporting
• Partner with colleagues to design and implement new tools and analytics modules
• Develop and maintain a robust portfolio construction and risk analytics platform used to monitor and manage a complex investment portfolio.
• Model investment programs using a variety of portfolio construction and risk models, including RiskMetrics and Barra.
• Maintain and update position and exposure information, market data, and P&L results.
• Improve the existing data platform and assist in the build out of new infrastructure, with the aim of enabling users to easily access and use our data.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned - must be comfortable pivoting as priorities shift in a complex and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline
• An advanced degree is an asset
• Experience in solving problems through the combination of quantitative, analytical and/or programming skills
• Passion for Investment Management and Financial Markets in general
• Strong quantitative, problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Programming/scripting experience using Python (and associated stats libraries), R, Matlab or Java
• Good programming skills, and knowledge of development processes and tools for Cloud-based applications.
• Experience with Codex CLI and Claude Code is an asset.
• Up to 3 years of relevant work experience

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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.

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