Associate, Public Markets Middle Office, Trade Capture & Support

Overview

If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here. Job Description: As an Associate, Public Markets, Middle Office, Trade Capture & Support you will support public Investment teams with transaction management, asset servicing, investment accounting, reporting and valuations. You will also oversee the day-to-day evaluation, accounting, and monitoring of relevant investment portfolios, covering all asset classes and security types.

Team Description

The Trade Capture & Support Team within Public Markets Middle Office (PMMO) is a global, cross-asset group responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of trade data across internal systems, supporting both Toronto and London offices in a \”follow-the-sun\” model. Acting as an extension of the trading desk, the team manages non-execution trade functions and works closely with trading desks, counterparties, custodians, and internal operations to verify, enrich, and resolve trade issues across a wide range of products including equities, fixed income, and bilateral OTC trades such as TRS and Stock Loan/Borrow. Their core function is to provide timely, accurate trade support while continuously enhancing processes and controls to ensure operational excellence. The ideal candidate for this exceptional career opportunity is a self-starter who is naturally curious about their work and how it fits into the bigger picture and can turn ambiguity into actionable results and thrives in a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with Toronto & London teams to provide follow-the-sun support and ensure all assigned trades are accurately captured, enriched, and matched by prescribed cut-off times and reflected accurately in internal systems with clear daily hand-offs between regional teams.
• Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved and financial controls and reporting requirements are met.
• Build a reputation as a subject matter expert in the asset class you support for issues related to investment operations and accounting.
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes and create operational efficiencies.
• Help lead the team in striving for operational excellence, assisting in creating process documents for new processes and/or updates to existing processes.
• Partner with colleagues from the Investment Departments, Finance, Legal, and Risk to assist in investment closings through documentation review, system setups, transaction entries and settlements.
• Partner with technology and change teams to drive system enhancements, automation initiatives, and operational resiliency improvements.
• Own performance metrics and KPIs related to trade settlements, delivering regular technical dashboards and exception reports to senior management.
• Support and provide guidance to junior team members with their assigned work and ensuring team deliverables are met within established timelines.
• Demonstratable investment understanding and/or progressive experience within middle office, preferably with a focus on trade lifecycle management across global markets (Americas, Latam, EMEA, APAC) & asset classes (exchange traded and OTC products).
• Direct experience with trade booking & enrichment, trade matching, and securities settlement across global markets is considered an asset.
• Experience with the following products: Listed equities and fixed income, futures, options, securities lending & borrowing, REPOs, OTC equity derivatives, OTC rates derivatives, OTC credit derivatives.
• Proven ability to structure communications, both written & verbal, to raise and resolve issues across all levels of the organisation while ensuring prescribed deadlines are met.
• Experience with any of the following applications: Murex, Simcorp, Traiana, Equilend, Bloomberg AIM, Omgeo, CTM, GTSS.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfortable learning new systems. Proficiency in coding considered an asset.
• Demonstratable interest in GenAI tools and adoption in daily tasks.

Company Description

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