Analyst, Real Estate, Real Assets

Company Description

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 $500 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 reach $3 trillion by 2050. 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 flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• 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.

Job Description

We are looking for an Analyst to join the Real Estate team within the Real Assets group in New York, during an exciting period of transformative change and growth. CPP Investments’ approach to real estate investments is flexible and includes large and scalable JV transactions with best-in-class operating partners, as well as both public and private company “platform” investment opportunities when warranted. We are growing rapidly, and the scale and complexity of our investment approach is constantly increasing. The RE group manages a C$50 billion portfolio of equity investments globally and over C$16 billion in the US.

RE invests in real estate across the risk spectrum, from development projects to stabilized assets, with a particular focus on programmatic investments that enable our portfolio to achieve scale with key partners. We invest primarily with aligned operating partners in direct real estate through joint ventures but will also consider private and public real estate platforms. In the US, we actively invest in major markets across the country, including all major asset classes (such as industrial, residential, retail, and office), as well as emerging sectors (such as data centers, life science, and student housing).

Based in New York, you will be a key contributor to scaling the business in one of our most important regions and will: i) work on transaction deal teams to undertake and manage long-term, sizeable equity investments; ii) actively engage in portfolio and asset management including dispositions; and iii) contribute to global initiatives. You will have significant exposure to all elements of the US real estate business, including access to some of the best-in-class developers and managers in the country. The role provides an opportunity to be actively involved in both new transaction execution and oversight of existing real estate investments across multiple sectors and markets.

As the ideal candidate, you are recognized for your critical and innovative thinking. You have worked for an organization that has built a value-accretive track record and have personally begun to develop strong investment and asset management judgement analytical skills. You are a highly effective communicator who can participate in complex investment committee and portfolio board discussions; build a relationship of trust with key partners and stakeholders; and manage the execution of successful investment and asset management initiatives while maintaining high levels of integrity, honesty, and a healthy dose of humility.

If you have an interest in working with talented people to grow and sustain a world class investment business; in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance then you should consider a career in Real Assets with us.

What You Will Do

• Research, analyze, underwrite, and evaluate a variety of real estate opportunities (direct asset investments, joint ventures, and platforms)
• 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.
  
  

Qualifications

• Up to three years of relevant work experience in a real estate investment or related business; with a particular focus on investment and asset management
• Undergraduate business, finance, engineering, or economics degree – B.A, B.S. or equivalent
• Investment transaction experience, including understanding of valuation and investment appraisal techniques essential
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to build working relationships internally and externally
• Ability to apply consistent investment judgement; the ability to discern and focus on “what’s important”
• Demonstrated adaptability, flexibility, and initiative
• Demonstrated solid depth and breadth of modeling skills and can run accurate underwriting models (Excel and Argus Enterprise)
• Fluency in MS Office (Word and PowerPoint)
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance
  
  

Additional Information

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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.

The salary range for this position is $120,000 – $155,000.

US state/city legislation requires CPP investments to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The base salary range shown here is a reasonable expectation for the posted role and is part of a competitive total rewards package which includes comprehensive benefits, a performance-based incentive plan, a 401 (k) plan and paid time off. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience and expertise.”