Analyst, Real Estate Investments

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 $400 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 exceed $450 billion by 2025. 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 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.

 

Position Description

Reporting to the Director, Real Estate Investments, this person plays a key role and is accountable for assisting in the research/analysis, underwriting and transaction management of new opportunities and the portfolio management activities for existing investments within the Real Estate Investments Americas team.

 

Role-Specific Accountabilities

• Research, analyze, underwrite and evaluate a variety of real estate opportunities (direct asset investments and joint ventures)
• Compile industry, market and asset level data and financial information
• Build complex dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities (reviewing investment structures and specific assets using financial models and a variety of quantitative analytical tools to test assumptions and sensitivities)
• Write/contribute sections of investment memoranda; participate in investment committee discussions
• Perform detailed underwriting and transaction management activities, including evaluation of past and projected investment performance, partner capabilities, investment merits and risks, expected returns and sector dynamics
• Assist in the evaluation, structuring and execution of real estate investment recommendations and review of legal documentation and closing activities
• Participate in real estate Investment portfolio management activities, including monitoring and evaluation of the investment portfolio performance, including participating in third party meetings with co-owners, investment managers and professional advisors; analyze proposed budget, capital plans and other investment recommendations and assist in the buy/hold/sell analysis
• Other relevant duties and projects as assigned.

Position Requirements

• Up to three years of relevant work experience in the real estate and/or investment industries on buy or sell side
• Experience in real estate is preferred, but not required
• Undergraduate business, finance, engineering or economics degree – B.A, B.S. or equivalent
• Strong financial modelling, research, quantitative, and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication (written as well as verbal)
• Demonstrates adaptability, flexibility and initiative
• Advanced skills with MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Working knowledge of Argus financial software is an asset, but not required
• Conduct consistent with CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

We are open to a range of applicants and will set the title and compensation of the role according to experience, talent and ability.  In either case, the individual will be given both support and time to grow into the role.

 

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