Analyst, Private Equity Asia – Funds and Secondaries

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 currently recruiting for an Analyst for the Private Equity Asia group with a focus on fund commitments, and opportunistically on secondary investments. Located in our Hong Kong office, the Analyst plays a key role in investing and managing commitments to leading private equity funds and transactions in the region, and will have exposure to the leaders of the private equity industry.

Role Specific Accountabilities

Analyze Investment Opportunities

• Actively participate in the due diligence process for fund and secondary investments, including building complex financial models, leading due diligence meetings, and proactively conducting research to address diligence issues
• Communicate and work with internal and external parties to drive due diligence and deal execution
• Conduct technical research by leveraging internal and external resources including key information services and databases
• Share views with team members on overall deal attractiveness based on diligence findings

Recommend

• Contribute to the development of investment recommendations based on the results of the team’s due diligence and analysis
• Participate in drafting private equity investment recommendations as well as presenting investment recommendations to the Investment Committee and Board, as required

Monitor Relationships and Investment Portfolio

• Represent CPP Investments externally by building relationships with general partners, limited partners, and other industry participants to assist in marketing CPP Investments and sourcing investment opportunities for the broader organization
• Proactively monitor ongoing financial performance of the portfolio and report any meaningful developments and insights
• Monitor go-forward pipeline of funds and secondary investments
• Assist with internal projects such as market reviews, portfolio construction, and strategy reviews
• Participate in and contribute to the training and development of colleagues and recruitment

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of investment banking / private equity / strategy consulting experience; exposure to private equity is not required but would be a positive
• Strong research, financial modeling, and analytical skills
• Superior communication skills, including oral/written communication to articulate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner with internal and external parties
• Track record of effective teamwork to deliver quality work under strict timelines
• Candidates must exhibit conduct consistent with our guiding principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
• Willingness to travel extensively
• Written and verbal fluency in an Asian language is a positive

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.