Intern Analyst, Finance, Analytics and Risk – Indigenous Student Internship

Job title: Intern Analyst, Finance, Analytics and Risk – Indigenous Student Internship

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Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high potential individuals. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments’ important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here’s an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.

Job Description

The Indigenous Student Internship Program was developed for students identifying as Indigenous/Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (Status Indian, Non-Status Indian, Inuit or Métis), who are currently enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs, interested in business issues and curious about career opportunities within the finance and investments industry.

We are looking for a dynamic Intern Analyst to join the Performance Measurement team in CPP Investments’ Finance, Analytics & Risk (“FAR”) department in the Toronto Office for a four-month summer placement.

Performance Measurement calculates returns of the Fund’s investments and their benchmarks along multiple dimensions to assess performance. The team measures and attributes contributions of each Investment Department to the total Fund results as well as against their benchmarks. The team also provides ad hoc analysis on investment performance to support Management and Investment Departments’ needs.

As an intern you will help with investment performance measurement, monitoring and reporting activities of CPP Investments and ensure that performance returns, benchmark returns, and performance attribution are calculated correctly. In the role you will look at analytical reviews and ensure reasonability checks and established processes are completed and followed in accordance with CPP Investment Board Policies, Guidelines, and Procedures.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that analytical reviews, reasonability checks and established processes outlined in CPP Investments procedures are completed and followed
• Assists in developing tests and automating control checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information being used to calculate performance benchmark and attribution results
• Automates and streamlines existing processes within Performance Measurement
• Participates in UAT testing for system upgrade or enhancement
• Prepares timely performance measurement reports for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting commitments with high degree of quality and accuracy, including conducting thorough analysis on performance results, and investigating discrepancies and brings issues to resolution
• Communicate investment results to related parties effectively, and actively participate in various discussions.

If you are a student who is looking for work experience, we want to help set you up for a future career that matters in Finance, Analytics & Risk. CPP Investments is highly committed to the Intern/Senior Intern Analyst Program which is designed to attract, develop and retain top-calibre students. Upon completion of your term, you may be considered for a future work term or the full time Rotational Program.

Summer Program

At CPP Investments, we are committed to helping you grow your skills and gain world-class experience. Working within a strong culture of collaboration, you will discover our rewarding and challenging internships. We have leaders who listen to every member of the team and trust them with meaningful work. This translates into immediate and unparalleled learning.

The summer program begins with an Intern Orientation for you to engage with fellow Interns and learn about the resources and programs available to you. We offer company-wide departmental overviews for you to explore more about what we do at CPP Investments and give you the opportunity to gain exposure to senior leadership across the firm. You will quickly advance your knowledge and expertise through stimulating on-the-job assignments. You will participate in additional summer programming such as our Intern Case Competition and our Speaker Series where each session focuses on a different aspect of our culture including Employee Resource Groups, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and much more. We encourage you to bring your full self to work and take every opportunity to excel in your role.

Qualifications

Who We’re Looking For

• Students wishing to apply must be Indigenous/Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (Status Indian, Non-Status Indian, Inuit or Métis) and enrolled in an undergraduate program and will be returning to school in the fall of 2022
• Working towards a degree in business, accounting or finance
• Candidates with a strong track record of academic success while balancing extracurricular activities.
• Candidates with a strong set of interpersonal, thought leadership, relationship building and communication skills.
• Candidates that often combine energy, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity, with a demonstrated interest in finance, analytics and risk.

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)

Deadline: January 16, 2022 11:59 PM EST

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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.

Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

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