Analyst, Credit Investments, Asset Management

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 presently recruiting for an Analyst to join the newly created Asset Management (AM) team within the Credit Investments (CI) department in Toronto. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the foundational design and implementation of next-generation asset management capabilities for CI’s private credit portfolio.

The Analyst will play a key role in enhancing the scalability and rigour of our asset management, working with investment teams and enabling functions to ensure timely and robust investment monitoring and continuous feedback into our investment processes. The ideal candidate will bring strong credit fundamentals, an interest in technology-enabled innovation, and a collaborative, ownership-oriented mindset.

Team Description

AM endeavors to develop a best-in-class asset management function to support CI’s growth for the next decade and beyond. The team will consist of credit experts and quantitative engineers collaboratively delivering tech-enabled solutions to drive alpha from operational efficiency, risk mitigation, and proprietary insights.

The team will handle ongoing issuer-level tasks such as performance monitoring, analyses of fundamental data trends, covenant tracking, cashflow and ledger forecasts, valuations, portfolio updates, and other critical asset management activities.  By combining domain expertise with cutting-edge technology – including GenAI and machine learning – AM aims to develop systems and processes that are tailored to CI, highly scalable and enhance decision making.

The Analyst will work at the intersection of credit analysis, portfolio management and technology with exposure to CI’s team and investment activity globally.   

Accountabilities:

• Proactively monitor the performance of private credit investments across asset classes (e.g. corporate credit, real estate credit, asset-based/structured credit, etc.): review financial results, conduct industry research, and engage with portCo management to derive insights.
• Prepare and review issuer-level performance summaries and analyses, including fundamental data trends, variance analysis, scenario analysis, covenant compliance, and watchlist reviews.
• Support the investment valuation process, maintaining internal models and/or coordinating with third-party valuation agents.   
• Develop clear, well-structured communication materials and summaries for key stakeholders including deal teams, CI group heads, and investment committees.
• Collaborate with quantitative engineers on the development of systems/workflows deployed by AM – such as automated model roll-forward, alerts and report generation – designing business logic and validating output.
• Manage asset onboarding processes and ensure seamless post-close handoffs from deal teams, capturing all necessary underwriting information and transaction documentation.
• Support the maintenance of accurate position-level data as input to CI’s asset management systems.

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of relevant experience in financial analysis, private credit, leveraged finance, restructuring, or portfolio management at a leading asset manager, investment bank or accounting firm.
• Solid understanding of accounting, financial modeling, business fundamentals, credit analysis and loan documentation concepts.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with proven ability to synthesize complex information and communicate clearly across stakeholder groups.
• Experience or interest in programming languages, data analysis, AI and automation tools (e.g. Python, SQL, PydanticAI) and digital innovation is considered a strong asset.
• Highly motivated, with growth-oriented mindset and proven ability to thrive in a high-performance culture.
• Strong written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong academic background, preferably in a quantitative or finance-related field; progress toward a CFA or CPA designation is considered an asset.

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.