Intern, CPA Program (8-months)

Company Description

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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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

The CPA Program is an eight-month placement for students looking for an internship or co-op work term and who would like to pursue a CPA designation in the future. You will join us as an Intern, CPA Program for 8-months starting from September 2025 to April 2026 in one of the eligible teams in Finance. 

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. 

If you are a student who is looking for work experience, we want to help set you up for a future career that matters. 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 CPA Rotational Program.  

The summer program begins with a week-long Intern Orientation for you to engage with fellow Interns and learn about the resources and programs available to you. You will quickly advance your knowledge and expertise through skills-based training and stimulating on-the-job assignments. You will participate in additional programming such as our Speaker Series where each session focuses on a different aspect of our culture including Employee Resource Groups, Equity Diversity and Inclusion and much more.  We encourage you to bring your full self to work and take every opportunity to excel in your role to build your career at CPP Investments. 

Overview of Participating Group 

Financial Policy & Reporting establishes all CPP Investments’ accounting policies to ensure compliance with the CPPIB Act and external standards. We provide transparency to our external stakeholders and strive towards high standards over the integrity of our financial reporting through the delivery of financial reporting obligations and ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. We also support CPP Investments’ Audit Committee to ensure the Board of Directors oversight over best practice standards of financial governance.  

Valuations establishes the governance, policies, standards, and methodologies over CPP Investments valuation practices. We oversee the quarterly valuation lifecycle and provide assurance that investment valuations can be relied upon to inform key decisions for the Fund, including portfolio rebalancing, risk management and financial reporting. 

Qualifications

• Candidates in an undergraduate program specializing in accounting or finance who will be returning to school after the work term are eligible to apply.  
• Top calibre students seeking to pursue a CPA designation in the future to complement their educational background.  
• 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 accounting, finance and analytics. 
• Candidates must be available for an 8-month work term. 

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) by Monday, May 26, 2025, at 8:00am ET.

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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.