Senior Analyst, Trade Support (12-Month Contract)

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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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. 

We are presently recruiting for a Sr. Analyst, Public Markets Middle Office (PMMO), within Technology and Operations.  The ideal candidate is a self-starter with excellent analytical and organizational skills. Process and control oversight experience and the ability to take the lead on team specific projects/initiatives is also preferred.    

*Please note that this an End-of-Day role with expected hours being 1pm-9pm

Team Summary

The PMMO team ensures that trading activity, security settlement, and asset servicing for Public Markets Investments are managed in an effective and efficient manner.

Accountabilities

• Performs end-of-day reconciliation and security pricing validation to ensure accuracy of market data and instrument valuations. Validates pricing data using established exception handling tools and procedures.
• Liaises with various stakeholders to ensure all trading activity is correctly represented in Investment and Accounting systems at end-of-day
• Manages static data and content quality in applicable systems to meet end user reporting requirements.
• Escalates end-of-day data and content issues on a timely basis. Takes ownership to resolve issues within the bounds of assigned authorities and communicates openly to stakeholders who are dependent on data for their risk, investment research and performance measurement processes
• Supports investment trading strategies through portfolio setups and maintenance. 
• Document’s data and business requirements
• Contributes to the development, implementation and testing of processes and procedures. Identifies opportunities to continually improve current processes, controls, data quality and/or efficiency
• Must also be willing to work on statutory holidays and overtime as required. Able to take on other ad-hoc duties and projects as required.  

• Must be comfortable working end-of-day hours
• Experience working in an investment operations environment with emphasis on supporting trading activity and reconciliation.
• Relevant university degree such as Business, Economics, Finance, Math, Commerce, Engineering, Accounting, or other related disciplines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; demonstrated experience building and retaining solid working relationships internally and externally
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors, and recommend solutions
• Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Bloomberg OMS, Murex, SimCorp, and other relevant investment systems is an asset
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• High degree of professionalism combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing investment business and technology environments
• Team player who enjoys high performance culture; comfortable and flexible with constantly evolving priorities and is open to new challenges
• Exemplify 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.