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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is a professional investment management organization that invests funds for the Canada Pension Plan. It has over $250 billion in assets under management and offices around the world. CPPIB is seeking a Senior Associate for risk management in its Global Tactical Asset Allocation group. The role involves developing approaches for measuring total portfolio risk, including options-based programs, and providing recommendations to manage risk. Ideal candidates have experience in options risk management and strong quantitative skills.

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CPPIB SAssocCont

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is a professional investment management organization that invests funds for the Canada Pension Plan. It has over $250 billion in assets under management and offices around the world. CPPIB is seeking a Senior Associate for risk management in its Global Tactical Asset Allocation group. The role involves developing approaches for measuring total portfolio risk, including options-based programs, and providing recommendations to manage risk. Ideal candidates have experience in options risk management and strong quantitative skills.

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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 $250 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 currently has offices in Toronto, London, Hong
Kong, New York, São Paulo, Luxembourg and Mumbai.

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

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.

Position Description

We are presently recruiting for a Senior Associate to support the risk management team for the option
based program within GTAA group. The role is focused on: 1) Developing clever approaches measuring
the total portfolio‘s risk which includes the option based program. 2) Providing actionable and timely
recommendations on how to manage risk. Ideal candidates are deeply passionate about risk
management, financial markets, embrace both quantitative and fundamental approaches to active
management, are intellectually curious and creative, flourish in a non-hierarchical culture and conduct
themselves with the highest standards of integrity. Above all, they derive the highest satisfaction from
achieving excellence, continuously expanding their knowledge and skills, and by being part of a team
that strives to be the best in its field.

The candidate works with the team to take on the responsibility of for understanding, predicting and
quantifying asset risk and co-movements across countries, asset classes and regimes, where we view risk
as far more than a covariance matrix or an empirical estimate, and should be comfortable viewing risk
through either a qualitative or quantitative lens.

 Build the proper risk metrics for the Global options program
 Integrate the option risk measures with the existing GTAA’s portfolio risk
 Stay abreast of relevant academic and applied research on risk management topics

Position Requirements

 Masters or PhD degree in fields related to Finance, Risk Management, Operation Research,
Statistics, Computer Science
 4-5 years of relevant experience (e.g. Junior member of risk management with the emphasis on
Options)
 Solid knowledge and hands-on experience with the option based risk management techniques (i.e.
Greeks and hedging strategies)
 Demonstrated interest in financial markets; ability to interpret economic news and market
conditions
 Solid knowledge of programming languages such as Matlab and information technologies.
 Detail-oriented with ability to produce creative and realistic ideas
 Ability to work in a culture of high performance, under pressure to perform with time-sensitive
deadlines
 Strong background in VaR based risk measures and stochastic calculus is considered an asset
 Strong background in portfolio optimization and portfolio construction is a plus

To Apply:
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romLink&jobPostId=3200&localeCode=en-us

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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 unsolicited resume or other candidate information received from a supplier not
approved by CPP Investment Board to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered
direct applications and will become the property of CPPIB. CPP Investment Board will not pay any
referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.

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