Associate, Performance

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. 

As an Associate, Performance, you will play a pivotal role in how CPP Investments measures, monitors, and communicates performance insights of one of the world's largest and most sophisticated institutional investors. Working closely with investment professionals, data experts, and senior management, you will ensure that performance and benchmark returns are calculated accurately and consistently, in full alignment with CPP Investments' policies and standards. This role blends analytical precision with strategic insight — ideal for a detail-oriented professional who can transform complex performance data into clear, actionable information for decision-makers across the organization.

Team Description

The Performance team plays an important role at CPP Investments.  We deliver trusted, data-driven insights that measure and explain the Fund's investment performance across all asset classes and investment strategies. Our team ensures transparency, accuracy, and accountability by calculating investment and benchmark returns, and attribution metrics that guide investment decisions and strategic planning. Through partnership with investment and core service teams, we help CPP Investments to achieve stronger results.

Key Accountabilities:

• Measure and monitor investment performance returns, benchmark returns, and performance attribution across asset classes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and insight.
• Prepare and analyze performance reports for investment groups and Management; investigate discrepancies and resolve issues promptly.
• Develop and automate control checks to ensure the accuracy and completeness of benchmark and attribution calculations.
• Create and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans for performance system upgrades and process improvements.
• Contribute to the development of new performance metrics that inform strategic decision-making.
• Act as a trusted Subject Matter Expert in performance measurement on cross-functional initiatives.
• Lead small-scale projects, including stakeholder engagement, planning, and progress reporting.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across departments within CPP Investments.

• Education: Undergraduate degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, or Applied Mathematics.
• Experience: Minimum 5+ years of relevant performance measurement industry experience.
• Strong understanding of performance measurement and attribution methodologies (e.g., time-weighted vs. dollar-weighted returns, equity, multi-currency, and fixed-income attributions).
• Completion of or progress toward a professional designation (CFA, CIPM, or FRM) is preferred.
• Technical Skills:
  • Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Visio, PowerPoint).
  • Experience with Python and SQL is an asset.
  • Familiarity with SimCorp Dimension is an asset.
• Other Core Competencies:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
  • High attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated adaptability, initiative, and flexibility in a dynamic setting.
  • Proven ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively.
• Embodies and exemplifies CPP Investments' Guiding Principles.

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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.