Data Scientist, Fundamental Sector Data

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

We are recruiting for a Senior Associate to join the Investment Research team in AE-NA.

The Active Equities North America Group (“AE-NA”) within the Active Equities department invests in mid-large market capitalization public equities in North America. The strategy employs bottom-up and deep fundamental research insights to create a concentrated beta-neutral portfolio of high conviction long and short investments.  The Investment Research team identifies opportunities to utilize alternative datasets to inform fundamental investment questions posed by sector specific investment teams. 

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager of the Investment Research team, the Senior Associate is responsible for identifying applicable data and conducting analytical experiments to isolate the drivers of current and future business performance of companies under coverage. The position is based in Toronto.

Position Requirements

Role-specific accountabilities include:

• Work directly with investment professionals on an appointed sector-focused team to identify opportunities to resolve outstanding questions and market debates utilizing datasets you have sourced and validated
• Prepare data dashboards with which you and the team can monitor key company drivers, identify inflections and screen for investment ideas worthy of attention
• Architect and execute analytical projects to isolate critical variables within the data, estimate KPIs, test investment hypotheses and increase the precision of inputs to traditional financial models and to determine whether current changes are likely to be persistent or temporary
• Effectively communicate data interpretations, including risk/confidence levels to non-technical team members
• Collaborate with other Active Equities investment teams and other investment strategies in Active Equities global teams
• Work directly with Investment partners to develop, test, integrate, and implement solutions for transformational initiatives
• Knowledge of/experience with active investment management or asset allocation processes is a plus

Qualifications

• ​​​​​​A minimum of an undergraduate degree
• Up to 3-6 years of relevant work experience
• Have a deep passion and interest in data analysis and investing
• Achieved high levels of academic performance and exhibit intellectual curiosity
• Strong research, analytical, technical and problem-solving skills; ability to think creatively
• Core technical skills: Python, SQL, Excel, exposure to Big Data workflows and analytic tools
• Knowledge of advance statistical modeling techniques a plus, but not required
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Highly detail-oriented with an ability to produce high quality work
• Ability to prioritize work and simultaneously manage multiple responsibilities
• Team-oriented and collaborative
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills both within a team as well as across different groups in an organization
• Keen interest in capital markets and the investment research process
• Exemplify CPP Investment’s Guiding Principles: 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:

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