Job Description

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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, S\xc3\xa3o 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.



We are looking for an Associate to join the European Real Estate Equity Investments (REI Europe) team within the Real Assets group, during an exciting period of transformative change and growth. CPP Investments\' approach to real estate investment is to pursue large and scalable JV transaction opportunities with high quality partners, as well as pursuing both public and private company \xe2\x80\x9cplatform\xe2\x80\x9d investment opportunities. CPP Investments is evolving rapidly, and the scale and complexity of our investment approach is constantly increasing. The global REI portfolio currently extends to C$52 billion portfolio of equity investments.

REI Europe invests in real estate across the risk spectrum, with a particular focus on large-scale complex transactions. We invest primarily with aligned operating partners in direct real estate, but also in private and public real estate operating platforms and public REITs. Given our mandate to generate alpha, value-generating business plans, with heavy capex requirement and ground up development activity, are a common investment characteristic of our transactions. We actively manage our portfolio, valued at C$12 billion of gross asset value, located across the United Kingdom and Continental Europe and we are constantly recycling capital through disposition and acquisition transactions within our JV partnerships and within our portfolio companies. We are active across the real estate spectrum, including retail, offices, industrial, residential, student housing, life science, data centres and hospitality.

Based in London, you will be a key contributor to generating alpha across our European real estate investment program and will: i) work on transaction deal teams to undertake acquisition and disposition activity across a large and growing portfolio of equity interests in real estate, and ii) actively engage in the delivery of active asset management and portfolio management activities to generate alpha. You will have a significant amount of exposure to all elements of the European real estate business.

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 Estate with us.

What you will do:

Analyse Real Estate Investment Opportunities:

• Independently build and maintain detailed financial models to analyse acquisition and divestment opportunities
• Examine joint ventures, club deals and other investments
• Independently conduct research on property sectors and contribute towards qualitative and quantitative analysis of broader work streams
• Take an active role in the selection, evaluation and on-going monitoring of relationships and investments

Execute Real Estate Investments:

• Drive the execution process of acquisitions and divestments
• Manage the coordination of the due diligence process and participate in due diligence meetings with partners and external advisors
• Coordinate closing activities internally and externally
• Coordinate and draft investment memos and strategy papers to be presented to the investment committee

Monitor existing Real Estate Investments:

• Take an active role in the monitoring and management of the investments
• Manage and prepare quantitative analysis of portfolio and asset business plans
• Review capital commitments and distributions related to real estate investments
• Coordinate with Finance & Operations with respect to monitoring ongoing investments
• Assist in building and leveraging relationships with company management teams
• Work directly with staff in other internal departments

Qualifications

• As an Associate you will have had commensurate experience in principal investing, corporate finance and/or M&A at a leading investment banking, consulting firm or asset manager with a focus on real estate
• Strong financial modeling skills, specifically fluency in Microsoft Excel is a requirement
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written as well as verbally in English) with an ability to build working relationships internally and externally
• Demonstrate adaptability, flexibility, and initiative
• Demonstrate deep interest and knowledge in the real estate sector and for principal investing
• Understanding of real estate valuation and investment appraisal techniques is essential
• European foreign language skills and educational/working experience in one of our target Continental European markets is an asset
• Advanced Skills in Microsoft Office
• Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

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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.

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All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.

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