Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
New Grad – Investment Service Specialist, Risk & Performance Analytics (Fall 2022)
Are you graduating soon and looking for an opportunity to grow your experience & further accelerate your career? Are you interested in working for a reputable global organization with a highly collaborative culture in financial services?
Then you will want to learn more about our investment service specialist – Risk & Performance Analytics position in our new Graduate program at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan! This program has been designed for students who are in their final year of study and graduating in 2022 or graduated in 2021.
Our Graduate program provides students fresh out of university with:
Access to a robust training program as part of your onboarding!
Exclusive new grad events
Webinars with opportunities to hear from our executive team
Competitive salary & incentives
Paid vacation days
Corporate discounts through our Edvantage program & Perkopolis
Access to hundreds of online learning courses through Degreed
Who You’ll Work With
Are you passionate about the future of Big Data in Finance?
If yes, we are the team for you. We, the Risk & Performance Analytics team within the Finance division is a key partner to the investment and risk team’s at OTPP. We are a team of professionals with multifaceted backgrounds (CFA, FRM, MBA, MMF) providing middle office services including performance measurement and risk attribution. We work with over a billion numbers a day and publish investment and risk metrics across asset mix, performance return, market risk, counterparty credit risk, liquidity and leverage risk to facilitate the fund’s investment decisions.
You will report to the Senior Manager, Risk & Performance Analytics and work with a team of passionate professionals to constantly challenge status quo and improve the portfolio and risk reporting and attribution practices at OTPP. You will be exposed to a broad range of asset classes, from public to private, and products, from vanilla to exotic, to learn how a sophisticated world class pension is run. While doing this you will apply your knowledge in math/computer science/business in a hands-on environment to develop skills in Bloomberg, SQL, VBA ,Python and PowerBI.
You will develop, and maintain relationships with stakeholders across the Investment, Risk, Finance and Enterprise Operation divisions while working in a collaborative culture.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for 1 new graduates to join our risk reporting team and total fund reporting team under Risk & Performance Analytics. Typical responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Ensure that data for the total fund and risk system is collected, input, and validated in an efficient manner and any issues arising from the processes are either resolved or escalated as required
Calculate and generate portfolio exposure reporting at total fund level, including but not limited to the fund’s asset mix, currency mix, country exposure, liquidity and leverage risk etc at portfolio and total fund level
Produce counterparty risk reports across business line and at total fund level and conduct factor and trade attribution analysis on material day over day exposure and VaR movements
Collaborate with internal and external collateral management team to oversee and resolve margin disputes caused by risk modelling issues
Perform credit monitoring of OTPP’s counterparties
Monitor investment exposure and risk usage against board investment policy limit and escalate as required
Maintain and enhance the business intelligence reporting suite and various analysis tools developed in-house to facilitate deeper understanding of portfolio and risk movement
Supporting the development and testing of risk model enhancements and reporting improvements
What You’ll Need
University degree in a quantitative discipline such as Math, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field
Prior coop or intern experience in risk management and/or investment reporting function is a strong plus
Hands-on working experience in one or more of these applications – Excel, SQL, VBA, Python, Power BI, with a desire to streamline and automate existing processes
Knowledge of capital market products, such as bonds and derivatives
An aptitude to learn with strong intellectual curiosity
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and work as part of a team, with strong written and verbal communication skills
What We’re Offering
At Ontario Teachers’, we are a globally minded organization and take pride ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create reflects and celebrates diversity of thought, background and experience.
If you require an accommodation for the application, recruitment or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
How To Apply
Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Submit your application online at www.otpp.com/careers and apply to requisition. The following documents are required to be uploaded with your application:
Resume
Copy of transcripts
Once your resume is uploaded, you may use the ‘upload’ button to attach more documents such as those required and outlined above.
You will also be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application. This portion of your application will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
The deadline to apply for this role is August 10, 2022.
We thank you for applying, however, only those selected for a personal interview will be contacted. Note that candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.
Note that all individuals employed by Ontario Teachers’ in our Toronto office will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. We remain committed to an accessible, inclusive and barrier free workplace; written requests for a human rights-based exemption from vaccination will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Note that candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.
Functional Area
Risk
Requisition ID
4563
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