Analyst, Investment Engineering, Research (12-Month Contract)

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

The Total Fund Management Department

In Total Fund Management ("TFM"), we are building the capabilities to enable a consistent framework for the long-term management of the firm's investment strategy.  TFM consists of five groups: Beta, Collateral, and Liquidity Management, Portfolio Design and Construction, Research, Portfolio Management, Trading and TFM Strategy and Business Management. 

The Investment Engineering team oversees global trading and execution of all public assets (excluding credit) across all major markets on behalf of all investment departments and the Balancing Portfolio. Trading is organized into three teams: Equities, Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) and Analytics 

We are currently recruiting for the Investment Engineering group, for a twelve-month opportunity with a tentative start date between June and September 2025. Students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate co-op programs, or non-co-op programs and those pursuing their professional experience year (PEY) and individuals who have graduated in April 2023 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program in a quantitative discipline, such as Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance or Math are eligible to apply.  

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Support the Analytics team in the creation of proprietary analytics and tools to generate insights and actionable outcomes for trading.  
• Work on a multidisciplinary team of traders, coders, and data scientists to apply varied skill sets to interesting research problems. 

Other Responsibilities:  

• Working with the Trading team to deliver global world class execution using trading algorithms and bespoke transactions across many assets including Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Derivatives and Commodities. 

Qualifications

Who We’re Looking For:

• The ideal candidate is either i) enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate co-op program, ii) enrolled in a non-co-op program and pursuing a professional experience year (PEY), or iii) has graduated in August 2024 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program. 
• You are working towards a degree with a specialization in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative disciplines. 
• The team works in a dynamic interactive environment which requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Demonstrates intuition, intellectual curiosity and scientific rigour, strong independent research skill. 
• Interest in finance/investment management. 
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously. 
• Coding proficiency in R or Python, experience working with SQL. 
• Able to collect data, define problems, establish facts, and leverage data visualization to draw valid conclusions Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership. 

Additional Information

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance, then you should consider a career in at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version) by Sunday, June 22, 2025, 11:59 PM.

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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.