Analyst, Credit Investment Operations

CPP Investments; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global investment organization in Greater London is seeking an Analyst for Credit Investment Operations. The role involves supporting investment teams with reconciliations, asset servicing, and monitoring investment portfolios. Candidates should have a relevant undergraduate degree along with strong analytical and Excel skills. Professional designations are a plus. The position emphasizes collaboration with various departments and requires a solid understanding of investment accounting and debt instruments.

Benefits

Global career development opportunities

A hybrid-flexible work environment

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, financial and management accounting skills essential for the role.
• Solid understanding of debt instruments and investment accounting required.
• Comfortable learning new systems and tools, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Support the Investment teams with reconciliations, asset servicing, and accounting.
• Assist with investment maintenance, ensuring accurate representation and tracking.
• Conduct valuation reviews and ensure adjustments are recorded accurately.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial accounting

Management accounting

Excel skills

Understanding of debt instruments

Knowledge of Gen AI tools

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field

Professional designations such as CBV, CFA, CPA

Job description

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 $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

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

Job Summary

As an Analyst, Credit Investment Operations, you will support the Investment teams with start of day and end-of-day reconciliations, asset servicing, investment accounting, reporting and valuations for either public or private assets. You will also assist with basic day-to-day evaluation, accounting, and monitoring of relevant investment portfolios covering all security types and asset classes.

Team Description

The Credit Operations team in London is part of a global platform of investment professionals supporting credit activities across the Toronto, London and APAC regions. The team oversees operational execution for all credit asset classes, ensuring accurate trade capture, lifecycle management, asset servicing, reconciliations and valuations. Working closely with investment, finance, legal and risk partners, the team enables efficient transaction execution, maintains robust controls and supports the delivery of timely, high-quality portfolio information for public and private credit strategies.

Accountabilities

• 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.
• Help manage investment maintenance and servicing; ensure investments are accurately always represented, track upcoming activity, reconcile records, and process activities.
• Assist in processing investments with the ability to understand impact on trading, reporting and performance.
• Assist in the quarterly / monthly valuation review; ensure valuation adjustments are accurately recorded and bring any errors / inconsistencies to management’s attention. Provide insightful valuation analysis.
• Identify and promptly elevate irregular activities or issues and assist management in determining corrective action.
• Assist in developing and maintaining policies and procedures.
• Maintain an ongoing effective working relationship with internal investment staff and external asset managers to ensure issues are discussed and resolved, financial controls and reporting requirements are met.
• Support in daily validation and reconciliation and sub- ledger of books and records related to position - keeping, deal pipe- line and trade lifecycle management.
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes, create operational efficiencies and foster a culture of continuous improvement, enhanced controls and data integrity (with a focus on using Gen AI tools).
• Interest in Gen AI tools (including data parsing and scraping) and overall comfort with data. Passion for improving process with technology.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma in related field. Professional designations such as CBV, CFA, CPA are considered an asset. Strong analytical, financial and management accounting skills will be necessary to perform this role.
• Strong Excel skills and comfortable learning new systems.
• Solid understanding of debt instruments and investment accounting
• Sentry and SCD knowledge a strong advantage.
• LMA and LSTA documentation knowledge important.
• Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership & high performance.