Intern Analyst, Trading

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 $675 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, 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.

The Total Fund Management Department:

In Total Fund Management (“TFM”), we are building the capabilities to enable a consistent framework for the long-term management of the firm’s investment strategy. TFM consists of four groups: Trading; Exposure, Leverage, and Liquidity Management (ELLM); Portfolio Design and Construction (PD&C); and Applied Research and Models (ARM).

The trading team is responsible for centralized trading to manage execution risk across all public assets (excluding credit) and markets on behalf of all investment departments. Trading is organized into three teams: Equities; Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC); and Investment Engineering / Analytics.

We are currently recruiting a Trading intern in the TFM department, for a four-month internship from May to August 2025. Candidates in an undergraduate co-op program or non-co-op program who will be graduating in December 2025 or later are eligible to apply.

Trading Description

The work done will vary by role/team, but will broadly include:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyzing trade execution data in order to gain insights and improve trading decisions.
• Developing tools to assist or improve efficiency of the day-to-day aspects of trading.
• Investigation and building reports on topics such as broker or algorithm performance, execution performance on behalf of investment departments, and overall trading activity.
• Research on topics such as market liquidity, positioning, trading costs, and trade execution.
• Opportunity to learn about markets and trading via day-to-day activities on the desk and interactions with traders.

Position Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will be graduating from an undergraduate program in December 2025 (or later) and is working towards a degree in a STEM or business field.
• The team works in a dynamic interactive environment which requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Interest in trading/finance/investment management.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Experience with some programming languages (such as C++/Java, R, VBA, Matlab, or Python).
• Knowledge using databases (MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle).
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership, and high performance then you should consider a career in Total fund Management at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version) by

Application Link: Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM

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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.