Manager, Investment Structuring and Digital Innovation

** 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 $3.6trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, 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.

Reporting to the Director, ISM, the Manager, Investment Structuring and Digital Innovation role within Investment Structure Management (ISM) provides end-to-end structuring support for CPP Investments’ private investments across Credit, Private Equity, and Real Assets, including entity setup and governance, assist with various projects/initiatives, and in setting up and managing CPP Investments group companies    In parallel, the Manager would lead the evolution of ISM’s operating model through digitally-enabled workflows, automation, and innovative tooling, ensuring the team scales efficiently as deal complexity increases.

They will be responsible for implementing solutions to enhance internal processes and connectivity, by leveraging their solid market knowledge, industry connections, and their innate curiosity to learn and continually upskill themselves and others around them.
This role is not a one-time transformation or project-based position. The successful candidate will not only be an active structuring team member, but will also be accountable for the ongoing evolution, implementation, and effectiveness of ISM’s digital workflows and operating model.
The Investment Structure Management (ISM) team is accountable for the operational structuring and end-to-end management of CPP Investments’ private investments. ISM enables the operational structuring of all CPP Investments’ private investments, and also manages the operating risks of CPP Investments’ legal entities while working with other partners in Legal, Finance and Operations.
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* Job Description:

**** Accountabilities
* * Investment Structuring & Transaction Execution
* Act as a subject matter expert in supporting the Director in the pre-close structuring and ongoing maintenance of new investments, exits, and restructurings
* Be fully accountable for owning, structuring, and closing bilateral Private Equity and Credit investment transactions
* Work with internal partners to identify and address structuring and operational complexities within CPP Investments’ legal entity structures
* Coordinate the establishment of new legal entities and address legal and governance requirements in partnership with investing teams and core service partners
* Provide advanced support for complex structuring and transaction execution activities for various investment products, including tracking deal timelines, developing detailed execution plans, maintaining meeting minutes, and project managing completion of pre-close activities
* Build trusted relationships with investing departments and understand nuances across asset classes to…