Associate, Structured Credit

at  CPP Investments

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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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 Associate to join the Structured Credit group, within Capital Solutions, in the Credit Investments (CI) department in Toronto, Canada. The Associate will play a key role in making and managing principal credit investments in North America, including investments in structured products and lending to financials companies. They will assist the team in evaluating investment opportunities, analyzing asset portfolios, developing sophisticated pricing and valuation models, conducting statistical research, developing investment recommendations, participating in the execution, monitoring, and management of investments. The team has an affable and supportive culture and is looking for someone who will grow with the group over time.

TEAM SUMMARY

Credit Investments currently manages assets in excess of $50 billion; investment deal sizes range from $50M to over $1B. The Credit Investments team has over 120 investment professionals across North America, Europe and Asia. The Structured Credit group invests in pools of loans and other credit-like or idiosyncratic assets and provides capital solutions to financial companies. Typical investments include purchasing or financing portfolios of consumer loans or commercial assets such as aircraft or royalties, subordinated lending to specialty finance businesses, and investments in collateralized loan obligations (‘CLOs’) and asset-backed securities (‘ABS’).

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Research, analyze and evaluate investment opportunities across multiple sectors.
• Build complex dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities, asset portfolios and financing structures with the capability to test assumptions and sensitivities and run scenario analyses and simulations.
• Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify historical performance trends, detect correlations, identify key drivers and derive key assumptions for projection period.
• Assist in preparing presentation materials and presenting investment recommendations to Investment Committees.
• Interact with external parties’ key to the investment process, including management teams, loan sellers, legal counsel, auditors, banks and leverage providers, among others.
• Execute investment opportunities, including reviewing legal documentation, working with internal operations, developing transaction structures; and
• Ongoing monitoring of portfolio investments and reporting performance highlights to Structured Credit and Investment Committees.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1 to 4 years of experience post undergraduate studies in either credit investing or at a financial services firm focused on structured credit, financials M&A, direct lending, CLOs, or High Yield or whole loan portfolio trading/investing, including financing such portfolios.
• Experience in conducting complicated due diligence work under a compressed timeline, contributing to deal sourcing activities and working with external stakeholders (e.g., management, sponsors, investment banks, etc.).
• Expertise in financial modelling and accounting is important for this profile. Expertise in modeling structured finance portfolios and using securitization valuation tools (e.g., Intex, DV01, Excel) is a plus.; and
• US or International market experience is an asset including understanding of market conventions/structures.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Track record of being a reliable, collaborative, and adaptable deal team member.
• Produces accurate, high-quality work.
• Exhibits intellectual curiosity and takes initiative.
• Strong interpersonal skills and business relationship skills.
• Ability to present an argument and distill complex information towards making an investment decision.
• Demonstrates our guiding principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
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