Senior Associate, Japan Focused, Active Equities Asia

Company Description

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, 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.

Job Description

Role Summary: 

We are presently recruiting for a Senior Associate (Japan focused) in the Active Equities Asia department in our Hong Kong office. Reporting to the Japan domain lead of Active Equities Asia, the candidate will lead investment research, develop and communicate investment recommendations.

Role Specific Accountabilities:

Analyze and communicate Investment Opportunities

• Lead the research of investment opportunities in Japan and evaluate public equity investment opportunities of Japan consumer sector.
• Lead due diligence on opportunities – including financial, company and sector diligence, to determine investment merits and risks.
• Oversee the building of dynamic financial and valuation models to analyze expected returns of investment opportunities, test assumptions and perform sensitivity analysis.
• Perform valuation analysis of companies’ securities,
•  Perform the relative ranking of investment opportunities to optimize exposures within the portfolio.
• Present investment recommendations to thought partners and investment committees.

Asset Management

• Analyze and communicate company earnings and events that move share prices.
• Monitor ongoing financial performance of portfolio assets. Oversee the update of financial models and other analysis tools to help with communicating rationale behind change in investment view.
• Performing valuation reviews for portfolio assets.
• Build and leverage relationships with industry participants and management teams.

Be a Contributing Team Player

• Participate in and contribute to weekly departmental meetings and investment recommendation meetings.
• Support other members on the team in research and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with other departments to produce impactful research work.

Qualifications

If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

• Minimum 6 years of investment experience in Japan public equity
• Strong expertise of Japan consumer industries
• Experience in conducting due diligence. Forensic accounting and research experience is a plus.
• CFA, CPA or CA designation is considered an asset.
• Must speak, read and write Fluent English and Japanese. Ability to communicate effectively and fluently, both orally and in writing. Excellent presentation skill is valued.
• Strong interpersonal skills and business relationship skills.
• Flexibility, adaptability, have initiatives and good judgment.
• Team player who enjoys a high-performance culture. Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
• Demonstration of our guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.

Additional Information

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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.