Principal/Senior Principal, Sustainable Investing

About this position

Company Description
Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investment Board (CPPIB), you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $350 billion, CPPIB 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 exceed $450 billion by 2025. CPPIB 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, São Paulo and Sydney. CPPIB 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 CPPIB’s important social purpose and unshakable principles
• 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 CPPIB.

Job Description
We are looking for a Principal/Senior Principal to join the Sustainable Investing team to play a leading role integrating climate change risks and opportunities into bottom-up investment decision-making processes and asset management activities across the CPP Fund (“the Fund”). This is an exciting and wide-reaching area of development for CPPIB.
Understanding the potential impact of climate change on investment returns is a critical issue for CPPIB. We are currently engaged in a wide-ranging initiative to integrate the consideration of climate change-related risks and opportunities into all aspects of its investment thinking, in a manner consistent with CPPIB’s mandate of maximising returns without undue risk of loss. As part of this initiative we are developing a set of innovative, industry-leading frameworks and tools to ensure that climate change considerations are factored into all security selection decisions. These tools are expected to be rolled out across the Fund in early 2019, with further development to occur thereafter.

As the ideal candidate you will be based in either Toronto or London and will possess both a knowledge of climate change issues and an awareness of how investment/financial organisations operate in practice. You will be one of the key points of contact and sources of information for CPPIB’s investment teams as they seek to factor climate change into their investment decision-making and asset management activities. It is vital that you be able to provide credible, relevant and timely advice to investment teams across a variety of strategies, asset classes and geographies.

Role-Specific Accountabilities

• Help teams identify whether there are material climate change issues to investigate in relation to an investment decision and, if so, what those issues are. This process should take into account the characteristics of the investment, the investment strategy being pursued and the timelines involved
• Provide investment teams with guidance on how to conduct any necessary due diligence work. This could include assisting the teams in using proprietary tools, providing them with access to data/research and/or connecting them with external advisors, with whom you will have cultivated relationships
• Assist the investment teams in integrating the findings of their due diligence into financial models, risk pricing mechanisms and investment recommendations, as required.
• Contribute to the development of detailed investment committee recommendations and take a role as necessary in answering challenging and/or technical questions
• Form objective opinions and be willing to challenge or take contrary views based on thorough analysis and expertise
• Oversee and manage multiple work products and relationships across asset classes and geographies both of a transaction and project nature
• Additionally you will be involved in CPPIB’s larger climate change program and the development of CPPIB’s proprietary climate change tools, ensuring that they add as much value as possible to CPPIB’s investment decision-making and asset management capabilities. You will be expected to be a thought leader on the impact of climate change on investments across the Fund. You are a collaborative influencer that is interested in a challenging and high-performing work environment in a specialized and burgeoning area that requires flexibility, adaptability, initiative and creativity.

Qualifications

• Significant years of professional experience (10+ years) working in a relevant or transferrable discipline
• Strong preference for education or experience of a technical or science-based nature (e.g., engineering) that is linked to climate change
• Relevant experience in investment and financial analysis considered an asset, with working knowledge of related concepts required at a minimum, and demonstrable knowledge of climate change as an investment issue
• Solid research and analysis capabilities; ability to apply consistent judgement (i.e., discern and focus on what’s important, understand the wider context of transactions and be able to weigh and prioritize climate change-related risks appropriately)
• Strong interpersonal skills, both as a communicator (oral and written) and a presenter, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships internally and externally
• Some willingness to travel
• Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Additional Information
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At CPP Investment Board, 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.

Disclaimer:
CPP Investment Board 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 Investment Board to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investment Board will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

About us

When you invest your career in CPP Investment Board (CPPIB), you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $350 billion, and projected to exceed half a trillion by 2030, CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan to ensure long-term sustainability. CPPIB 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, São Paulo and Sydney.

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