Analyst, European Credit

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We are presently recruiting for a structured credit and financials focused Analyst in European Credit, part of the Credit Investments department in London, UK. As an Analyst, you will work on small deal teams to evaluate sub-investment grade credit opportunities, analyze asset portfolios, develop sophisticated pricing and valuation models, develop investment recommendations, and participate in the execution, monitoring and management of corporate bond, loan portfolio, and asset-backed investments.

Credit Investments currently manages assets in excess of C$50 billion; investment size ranges from $50 million to over $1 billion. The Credit Investments team has over 150 investment professionals across North America, Europe and Asia.

European Credit is focused on developing Analysts into experienced, data-driven, cross-asset-class investors and leaders with a strong understanding of the deal process from origination through to exit.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Research, analyze, and evaluate sub-investment grade structured credit and loan portfolio investment opportunities across various industries, including CLOs, asset-backed loans, SRTs, non-performing loans, and financial corporates and forward flows;
• Build complex, dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities, asset portfolios and financing structures with capability to test assumptions and sensitivities and run scenario analyses and simulations;
• Stratify and analyze large data sets to identify historical performance trends, identify key drivers and derive key assumptions for projection period;
• Participate in asset management and monitoring of a growing portfolio, building internal reporting and risk tracking systems;
• Review and assist in the negotiation of legal documents;
• Prepare presentation materials and present investment recommendations to Investment Committees.

Qualifications

• Commensurate years of experience post undergraduate studies, preferably in credit investing with a focus in a structured or quantitative area;
• Undergraduate degree in a technical or quantitative discipline, such as financial economics, statistics, engineering;
• Strong quantitative, technical, financial modeling, analytical and valuation skills and expertise at modeling portfolios and structured finance opportunities;
• Experience and passion for investing;
• Experience and passion for analyzing and modeling large datasets;
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing;
• Ability to adapt to different investment asset classes, jurisdictions, and risk levels;
• Strong interpersonal skills and business relationship skills;
• Ability to distill complex information towards making an investment decision;
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure;
• Team player who contributes to a high performance culture;
• Demonstration of our guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.

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.