Associate, Real Estate

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

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

We are looking for an Associate to join the North American Real Estate team within the Real Assets group in New York, during an exciting period of transformative change and growth. You will be a key contributor to scaling the business in North America (the US and Canada, specifically), one of our most important regions, and will:  i) work on transaction deal teams to undertake and manage long-term, sizeable equity investments; ii) actively engage in portfolio and asset management including dispositions; and iii) contribute to global initiatives. You will have significant exposure to all elements of the US and Canadian real estate business, including access to some of the best-in-class developers and managers in the country. In the North America, we actively invest in major markets across the country, including all major asset classes (such as industrial, residential, retail, and office), as well as alternative sectors (such as data centers, life science, and student housing). The role provides an opportunity to be actively involved in both new transaction execution and oversight of existing real estate investments across multiple sectors and markets.

Team Description

CPP Investments’ approach to real estate investments is flexible and includes large and scalable JV transactions with best-in-class operating partners across the risk spectrum, as well as both public and private company “platform” investment opportunities when warranted. We are growing rapidly, and the scale and complexity of our investment approach is constantly increasing. The RE group manages a C$50 billion portfolio of equity investments globally and over C$20 billion in North America.

Accountabilities:

• Research, analyze, underwrite, and evaluate a variety of real estate opportunities (direct asset investments, joint ventures, funds, and platforms)
• Compile industry, market and asset level data and financial information
• Build complex dynamic financial models to analyze investment opportunities (reviewing investment structures and specific assets using financial models and a variety of quantitative analytical tools to test assumptions and sensitivities)
• Write/contribute sections of investment memoranda; participate in investment committee discussions
• Perform detailed underwriting and transaction management activities, including evaluation of past and projected investment performance, partner capabilities, investment merits and risks, expected returns and sector dynamics
• Assist in the evaluation, structuring and execution of real estate investment recommendations and review of legal documentation and closing activities
• Participate in real estate Investment portfolio management activities, including monitoring and evaluation of the investment portfolio performance, including participating in third party meetings with co-owners, investment managers and professional advisors; analyze proposed budget, capital plans and other investment recommendations and assist in the buy/hold/sell analysis
• Other relevant duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3 plus years of relevant work experience in a real estate investment, private equity, investment banking or related business; with a particular focus on investment and asset management
• Minimum undergraduate business, finance, engineering, or economics degree – B.A, B.S. or equivalent
• Investment transaction experience, including understanding of valuation and investment appraisal techniques essential
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to build working relationships internally and externally
• Ability to apply consistent investment judgement; the ability to discern and focus on “what’s important”
• Demonstrated adaptability, flexibility, and initiative
• Demonstrated solid depth and breadth of modeling skills and can run accurate underwriting models (Excel and Argus Enterprise)
• Fluency in MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Conduct consistent with our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

Additional Information

The salary range for this position is:

USD $145,000 - $212,000 for the Associate position.

US state/city legislation requires CPP investments to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The base salary range shown here is a reasonable expectation for the posted role and is part of a competitive total rewards package which includes comprehensive benefits, a performance-based incentive plan, a 401 (k) plan and paid time off. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience and expertise.

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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.