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-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. 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 flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• 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.

Public Markets Operations performs functions that are integral to the end to end transaction processes that support CPP Investments’ in public markets. The Managing Director, Public Markets Middle Office will be a senior member of the Operations management team, primarily responsible for continuing to establish a best-in-class middle office function, initially with a focus on public markets, with a strategy to be developed for future state support of private markets. The role will report to the Managing Director, Head of Operations, Global Leadership Team, and will continue the implementation for the new function, looking at opportunities focused on streamlining and improving current process and support by better aligning functions that drive trading support and post trade analysis to allow for a more scalable and flexible organization.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Continue the strategic roll out for a middle office function that will provide transactional support initially for both the public markets, with a view to extending to private investment businesses as applicable.
• Oversight and responsibility for investment services (including account & product setup and maintenance, counterparty onboarding and maintenance) and trade lifecycle management (trade capture, affirmations, resets, issues/exceptions, corporate action processing, EOD pricing, etc.).
• Working with investment departments to identify and transition duplicative functions in order to free up investors’ time to focus on investment/portfolio decisions.
• Align with the investment departments to ensure global coverage aligned with the goals of each department for a global trading team.
• Overseeing, measuring, and managing overall risk for the new middle office in an environment with significant daily trading volumes.
• Consistently identifying sources of complexity and recommending technology enabled/process enhancement solutions that are long term and scalable.
• Building strong relationships with investment departments to support investment strategies while also ensuring the overall function maintains integrity and controls.
• Building partnerships with the Technology & Data Department to ensure support and synergies/efficiencies.
• Leading the development of a high performing team.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A strategic mindset and proven ability to build and shape a long-term approach to group success while taking an enterprise level view.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational changes to optimize the global operational support needs and manage performance of Operations teams, setting clear priorities and expectations as well as providing direction and support
• A track record of optimizing the value delivered by their group or department through the thoughtful allocation of resources to high priority areas.
• A history of attracting top-tier talent to build a diverse team of leaders.
• The ability to develop targeted metrics/KPIs that tracks key success measures across both internal processes and external relationships with key vendors
• Is recognized as an innovative and collaborative thought leader who drives productive change that delivers tangible business value.
• The ability to communicate, influence and engage with peers, senior leadership, and business partners.
• Demonstrated experience building, overseeing, leading, coaching and developing high performing teams (e.g. recruiting, training, mentoring, etc.)
• Superior interpersonal skills; clear and proven communication skills (oral and written) as well as exceptional presentation skills
• Committed to inclusion and diversity and leadership in enterprise-wide initiatives

Specific experience, qualifications and areas of expertise should include:

• 10+ years of experience ranging from development to oversight of operations processes and controls for a multi asset public markets business across a broad spectrum of products including, but not limited to, equities, fixed income, derivatives, foreign exchange and money markets
• Thorough understanding of the issues relevant to a multi-asset class portfolio management business, such as the use of derivatives, trade settlement (globally, including emerging markets), securities lending, implementation of new products and strategies, and their related operational management requirements.
• Proven history of scaling operations through the “smart” use of technology and process simplification.
• Possess a strong client service orientation and exceptional relationship skills.
• Excellent and demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to think through problems and recommend solutions.
• Experience with trade capture & settlement systems is an asset.
• An undergraduate/advanced degree in business or economics is expected. A professional designation such as a CFA is highly valued. A CA/CMA/CPA is an asset, but not required.
• Exemplifies 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.

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All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, 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.