Senior Associate, Active Equities

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

Active Equities Europe invests in public equities across all sectors within the EMEA region. We use long-term fundamental and data analysis to inform our security selection. This results in a collection of concentrated, high conviction, single-company investments. We assemble these investments into a long/short, market-neutral portfolio. The result is a portfolio with maximum exposure to fundamental research and data insights. 

The Senior Associate will help the EMEA Consumer team conduct independent research, analyse public companies, and generate long-term investment ideas that are expected to result in excess returns.

Role-Specific Accountabilities:

• Work directly with team members to support the evaluation of potential company investments in Europe, Middle East and Africa across the Consumer sector
• Participate in meetings with the management of public corporations, industry experts and analyst calls
• Prepare analytical investment reviews and recommendations in collaboration with the team, including industry overviews, written investment rationales and due diligence reviews
• Develop company financial models and perform both valuation analysis including absolute and relative valuation multiples, DCF models and comparable company analysis; apply statistical analysis to support investment decisions
• Creatively find information and data from a wide range of sources including alternative data in order to help further research analysis
• Generate and recommend investment ideas across the Consumer investment universe in geographic markets including Europe, Middle East and Africa, although the focus is on Europe
• Assist with active coverage of existing positions in the portfolio
• Provide thoughtful input as a thought partner for new and existing positions across the global portfolio

Qualifications

• A minimum of an undergraduate degree from a top tier university
• Have a track record of academic achievement and professional advancement
• Experience working for a Public Equities strategy at an investment manager / hedge fund or as an Equity Analyst at a blue-chip investment bank. Consumer domain experience is an asset
• Excellent research, analytical, financial modeling and valuation skills with ability to present analysis clearly and articulately
• Ability to source and utilize data from a wide range of sources and formulate an independent view
• Experience with equity shorts is an asset
• Experience with alternative data analysis is an asset
• Problem-solving mindset combined with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and ability to think creatively
• Detail-oriented with an ability to produce high quality work
• Demonstrated interest in markets and the investment management process; ability to interpret economic news and market conditions
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously
• Work effectively in a team environment
• Superior interpersonal and relationship management skills, with excellent abilities as a communicator (oral and written) and as a presenter
• Advanced computer/technical skills – MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Bloomberg. Python may be an asset
• A low ego with a desire to work in a collaborative, collegial culture focused on high performance
• Being an enterprise standard bearer of CPP Investments' Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Additional Information

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for this full-time, permanent position.

The position will be based out of the London Office at 40 Portman Square, London, W1H 6LT.

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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.