Analyst, Portfolio & Risk Engineering

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 $3.6trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, 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.

Portfolio and Risk Engineering (PRE) is a team within Investment Engineering & Analytics that builds and operates the data, production models and engineering systems that support portfolio construction and risk across Capital Markets and Factor Investing. We deliver consolidated portfolio views, canonical data feeds, risk attributions and production risk tooling to enable portfolio‑level decision making, hedging and risk operations, and we lead the engineering and process work to integrate and product ionise those capabilities.

The Analyst, Portfolio and Risk Engineering will design and develop production‑grade systems for risk monitoring, portfolio construction, portfolio monitoring and hedging; build tooling and automation that turns quantitative models and signals into resilient production services. You will work with both structured and unstructured data to surface portfolio insights, explain exposures and support hedging decisions; implement, test and product ionise model changes and build monitoring, alerting and explainability around model and data health;

and partner with portfolio managers, trading and Risk to translate business requirements into engineering solutions. The role will also develop and integrate GenAI‑based tools and workflows to extract information from text and reports, automate monitoring and improve portfolio understanding and explainability.

• Contribute to the research and development of investment strategies
• Support development of proprietary research methodologies through the application of advanced analytical techniques
• Design and develop portfolio analytics and visualisations
• Assist Investment and internal partners in the preparation of ongoing and ad‑hoc investment performance reporting
• Partner with colleagues to design and implement new tools and analytics modules
• Develop and maintain a robust portfolio construction and risk analytics platform used to monitor and manage a complex investment portfolio.
• Model investment programmes using a variety of portfolio construction and risk models, including Risk Metrics and Barra.
• Maintain and update position and exposure information, market data and P&L results.
• Improve the existing data platform and assist in the build‑out of new infrastructure, with the aim of enabling users to easily access and use our data.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned – must be comfortable pivoting as priorities shift in a complex and dynamic environment.

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline
• An advanced degree is an asset
• Experience in solving problems through the combination of…