Intern Analyst, Credit Strategy

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 $632.3 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.

The Credit Strategy Group is part of the Credit Investments (CI) department at CPP Investments.  CI manages $70 billion in assets and is responsible for all CPP Investments, public and private credit investments globally. CI provides debt financing solutions across the entire credit structure, including term loans, high-yield bonds, mezzanine lending, structured products and other solutions for borrowers in all sectors. The Credit Strategy group within CI seeks to enhance the risk-adjusted returns of the CI portfolio through portfolio construction techniques that enable the CI portfolio to deliver the total fund’s desired credit exposure as well as maximize alpha generation across relative value factors such as sector, geography, rating, etc.   

We are currently recruiting an intern analyst in the Credit Strategy Group, for a four-month internship starting January 2025. Candidates in an undergraduate program that will be graduating in August 2025 or later are eligible to apply. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist in the build-out of the portfolio strategy function of the recently created Credit Investments department at CPP Investments
• Develop proprietary portfolio construction and monitoring tools to enhance management of the CI portfolio
• Assist in the development of a relative value framework within CI to improve the effectiveness with which CI delivers a global portfolio

Other Responsibilities:

• Analyzing specific investment opportunities as it relates to fit within the overall CI portfolio
• Partner with other departments at CPP Investments (e.g. Total Fund Management, Finance, Analytics and Risk and Capital Markets and Factor Investing) to advance initiatives such as enhanced integration of bottom-up and top-down decision making, improved reporting and incorporation of capital markets inputs into the evaluation of prospective investment opportunities

Who We’re Looking For  

• The ideal candidate will be graduating from an undergraduate or graduate program in August 2025 (or later) and is working towards a degree in math, engineering, business or computer science.
• Experience with programming languages (such as Python, C++/Java, R, VBA).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an interest in working in a dynamic collaborative environment.
• Interest in finance/investment management.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Excellent academic performance.
• Knowledge in managing databases (such as MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle) would be a plus.
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of high performance, integrity and partnership.

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: September 1, 2024, 11:59pm 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.