Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

The opportunity The Compliance Department’s vision is to be a trusted partner and advisor to help Teachers’ business divisions effectively balance risk, regulatory compliance, and related best practices in accordance with Ontario Teachers’ risk tolerance and to help build a sustainable culture of compliance. The Manager supports the six key functions of the Compliance Operating Model: i) Advisory, ii) Policies and Procedures, iii) Education and Training, iv) Monitoring and Surveillance, v) Compliance Risk Management, vi) Compliance Reporting to Senior Management and the Board. Who you'll work with You will work closely with internal and external partners at all levels in the organization. This includes, Corporate Affairs, Compliance, Investments, as well as liaise with public pension peers ensuring standard methodologies are followed. We offer a flexible hybrid environment with 3 days in our North York office. We will be moving to our new office in downtown...

The opportunity The Manager, Optimization & Governance is accountable for design, development, and maintenance of oversight capabilities within Solution and Quality Engineering (SQE) across Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) - this includes the mandate to optimize processes and capabilities to increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of our delivery. Through the Manager’s leadership and oversight of contingent labour, application development and testing services are provided in an efficient manner - balancing near term results, longer term efficiencies, risk, and cost. This position has leadership responsibilities and contributes to strategic planning. With an overall enterprise view, this role is critical in ensuring teams are enabled to make evidence-based decisions. This is accomplished by leading in the design of key metrics, interpreting the resulting data to identify continuous improvement opportunities, and defining standardized approaches to realize value...

The opportunity This is a great opportunity where you will be managing a team of project professionals to successfully deliver a segment of the portfolio of projects under the Enterprise Operations, Project Delivery department. Also, you will be responsible to draw together the requirements for the annual project slate, utilizing several contributing inputs from the corporate strategic plan, compliance or regulatory changes and upgrades, and general system upgrades or replacements. You’ll have the opportunity to work remotely and come into the office on occasion for team collaboration moments.  Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad for a month in another region/country.  The choice is yours! Who you'll work with Reporting to the Portfolio Director, you'll support the use of OTPP methodologies for project delivery. This role will require selective client interaction and may, at times, be required to educate and influence key partners on...

Senior Manager, Audit Services The opportunity The Senior Manager, Audit Services is responsible for improving and protecting Ontario Teachers’ organizational value and reputation, and to improve its operations by providing risk-based, independent, and objective assurance, advice and insight. The position has significant interactions with all management levels throughout Ontario Teachers’ and their work will inform the Chief Financial Officer and the Audit & Actuarial Committee on the design and effectiveness of established risk management, control, and governance processes. Who you'll work with You will interact with all levels of management and senior leaders to deliver audit reports including required action items.  What you'll do Plan, organize, and establish audit objectives, priorities, methodology and procedures, including supporting the preparation of the annual audit risk assessment. Independently plan and coordinate the completion of...

The opportunity The Director, Sustainable Investing (SI) will help OTPP’s long-term strategy to achieve stable returns, leading SI colleagues to systematically assess and manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities. This is a fantastic opportunity to take a leadership role in the expansion of OTPP’s sustainable investing program, achieving its climate goals and producing a positive impact through investments. The Director will provide leadership and support to coordinate the Sustainable Investment strategy with an emphasis on integration in the investment lifecycle and Green Bond program. The Director is a well-rounded sustainable finance professional with a thorough understanding of how ESG may impact investment outcomes, and capable of supporting a range of ESG initiatives across industries and assets classes (public and private markets). SI is an integral group within total fund management, a department within the Office of CIO that works...

The opportunity We are looking for Data Architect to join the Enterprise Data Platforms team within our Data & Analytics program.  You will be responsible for designing, delivering and consulting on logical and physical data models, virtualized and persistent integrated data sets, data access layer designs, and other data management aspects of solution development as part of the holistic suite of technology solutions provided to business teams.  Who you'll work with Communicate and interact effectively with systems professionals and end users who are not systems experts. Work independently, prioritize work assignments, meet deadlines and produce an adequate volume of work.  You will be working closely with solution engineering, product groups, and business partners to define, design and implement data architecture standards and solutions to ensure that our enterprise data architecture is technically sound and meets the needs of our business. What you'll do Data...

The Opportunity: You will be joining a dynamic and experienced team of lawyers and legal professionals providing enterprise legal services to our offices in Toronto, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, and jurisdictions of other offices, subsidiaries, and portfolio companies. Reporting to the Director & Legal Counsel, Employment Law & Litigation, you will function as a trusted legal business advisor to the organization, and primarily to our colleagues in People & Culture.   You will exercise strong judgment in providing pragmatic, well-reasoned and timely legal advice on the full spectrum of labour and employment law matters.  This role will also partner in supporting general corporate/commercial litigation matters for the organization and its subsidiaries and portfolio companies. The position is in Toronto and please note that our offices will be moving downtown Toronto in 2024. This is a hybrid position, the details to be determined based...

The Opportunity We are looking for a Principal to join our growing Credit team. Your core responsibility will be running a fundamentally focused credit portfolio across public markets in Investment Grade, High Yield, and Leveraged Loans, focused on delivering value-add over a credit benchmark return. Who you’ll work with The OTPP Credit team is a group of over thirty investment professionals who invest across the full spectrum of credit products, employing a wide variety of investment styles, including: deep-dive fundamental analysis (public and private), structured credit, quantitative strategies, thematic investing, and enhanced indexing, as well as fund investments. Reporting to a Director, Public Fundamentals, you will work within a team focused on building high conviction single name and sector concentrations across the credit universe.  The Principal role will have the ability to deploy risk, within delineated risk budgets and constraints, through developing...

Research Analyst The opportunity This role entails collaborating with internal investment business partners within OTPP to gain a detailed understanding of their research requirements, fulfilling their research needs, and enabling our business partners to make informed decisions regarding their current and potential investments. The Research Analyst will be the domain expert for qualitative Desktop Research (Secondary Research), which focuses on summarizing, collating, and/or synthesizing information from various existing data sources, conducting analysis, and presenting final research results. The various research topics include, but are not limited to, deal support, market/industry intelligence, competitor intelligence, and reputational risk assessment. Who you'll work with You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with partners across the organization including the Investments Department, Enterprise Operations as well as external partners. What...

Senior Manager, Talent Management The opportunity The Senior Manager, Talent Management is an exciting opportunity for a leader passionate about developing and executing enterprise Talent programs including: an inclusive enterprise talent review, succession planning, building development programs, and identifying future critical skills. As a member of the Talent COE and program owner of our enterprise Talent Review program, you will partner with P&C Business Partners, COEs and senior leaders to develop targeted solutions to build a strong and diverse talent pipeline. Who you'll work with Reporting to the Managing Director, Talent, you will work closely with P&C Business Partners and our Centres of Expertise to shape and deploy our enterprise talent program to identify and develop critical talent to deliver on our current and future business needs.    What you'll do In partnership with our P&C business partners and COEs, lead inclusive enterprise...

The opportunity The Senior Associate, Valuation is responsible for the execution of OTPP’s semi-annual private investment valuation processes, for the purpose of OTPP’s mid-year and year-end financial statement reporting. Private portfolio investments asset classes include private equity, infrastructure, natural resources, venture capital, real estate, and private credit. This position will also actively involve training and reviewing the work of junior staff. Who you'll work with Reporting to a Senior Manager, Valuations, you will work independently and with junior staff in the preparation of private investment valuations and other deliverables within the Finance, Valuation team. What you'll do 1. Supporting the planning and execution of the mid-year and year-end valuation processes during peak periods. Help prepare and be responsible for the review of “fair value” valuations prepared by OTPP’s Investment teams including the preparation of analysis and...

The opportunity The Engineering Lead, Cloud and Compute Engineering is a senior technical role that will be supporting the introduction of server technologies at Ontario Teachers’. You will be responsible for server technology strategy, planning design and continuous improvement and works with various service providers to oversee implementation. Responsible for planning, gathering and translating technical requirements into infrastructure solution designs in alignment with business needs. This role is additionally responsible for relationship management with key vendors and internal partners, managing services, processes and critical metrics, related to system design effectiveness, requirements traceability, customer and partner satisfaction, system design quality and system availability in order to take proactive actions and deliver expected levels of system capability. Who you'll work with You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, dedicated...

Board Governance Specialist The opportunity Reporting to the Corporate Secretary, you will assist in managing the operations and administration of Board and Committee meetings, and board processes and programs, including Board Education, and Board Orientation.  You will provide specialized governance support to the Board of Directors and the Executive Leadership Team and be accountable for the administration of two to three board committees. Who you'll work with You will have the opportunity to interact with various partners across the organization globally at all levels as well as external partners. What you'll do Board Administration Develop and maintain annual work plans and prepare agendas, run sheets, minutes and actions items for assigned committees Post materials to Diligent ensuring document submissions received from contributors meet deadlines and process requirements Support the Benefits Adjudication Committee hearing process, as...

The opportunity At Ontario Teachers’ we believe that one of the most important decisions we can make is who we hire. We are looking for a seasoned Talent & Leadership Development Specialist to contribute to the execution of our world-class talent strategy. This includes the delivery of critical Talent priorities and processes, Teachers’ Academy, and key talent offerings that include Talent Review, Learning, Leadership Development and Talent Selection. Who you'll work with Reporting to the Senior Manager, Talent Programs, the Talent & Leadership Development Specialist will work closely with our Talent team and other People & Culture professionals to support the execution of Talent priorities, programs and processes, including Talent Review, Learning, Leadership Development and Talent Selection. What you'll do Support the deployment of Teachers’ Academy , our marquis investment focused on driving culture and capability across the enterprise in...

The Opportunity   As an Investment Analyst, Private Capital in our Equities department, you will have a key role in analyzing potential private equity investment opportunities, executing transactions and working with existing portfolio companies to craft strategy and implement value-enhancing initiatives within the Technology sector private equity portfolio. With our mindful staffing model, you will likely have the opportunity to support transactions across other Private Capital sector teams as well, including Healthcare, Financial Services, Diversified Industrials & Business Services, Sustainability & Energy Transition, and Digital & IT Services.  You will g et the chance to define and differentiate yourself as an investor and build strategic relationships with investment banks and industry executives. We work in lean teams which will give you great exposure and hands-on learning opportunities.   Who you’ll work with   Every day,...

The opportunity Based in our office in Toronto, the Investment Analyst will be an integral part of the High Conviction Equities (“HCE”) team and focus on global TMT public equities. The HCE TMT team is responsible for a highly concentrated portfolio that delivers outsized idiosyncratic returns. The Analyst will support senior investment professionals in analyzing potential investment opportunities, buildout data analytic tools and help with monitoring TMT companies under coverage. Who you will work with The Equities department is responsible for leading the fund’s $40B+ private and public equity portfolios. This opportunity is with the High Conviction Equities (HCE) team, which invests in public and near-public companies globally and across most sectors. HCE is a long-term oriented, bottom-up stock picking team with a strong emphasis on deep industry knowledge, valuation, forecasting and modeling. Reporting to a Managing Director in the team, the Investment Analyst...

The opportunity The Manager, Management Reporting & Planning (“MR&P”), will be part of a team responsible for building an outstanding financial planning and management reporting function, maturing quarterly forecast and multi-year enterprise planning processes and methodologies, developing strategic partnerships with cross functional divisional leaders, to assist them with business management and provide management reporting insights that are timely and decision useful. Who you’ll work with In this role you will support the Senior Manager (MR&P) and Director, MR&P and Investor Relations, and will frequently interact with Managing Director, Financial & Management Reporting (“FMR”) and CFO. You will closely collaborate with peers within MR&P and across Finance to develop insight and analysis and produce management reporting & effectively implement planning processes. You will act as a critical finance partner to functional divisions...

The deadline to apply for this role is: May 26, 2023 The opportunity September 2023- December 2023 Do you want to get exposure to asset/liability management and portfolio construction while working with data modelling and visualization? You will work with asset models and help develop analytic tools used by researchers to understand the impact of asset mix decisions You will learn about asset classes and their risk and return characteristics You will work with modern web-based technologies and architectures Who you'll work with Working in a team with quants and/or data scientists The work is project based, with projects ranging from half a day to the full term Immediate clients are the researchers using the tools and data you develop Work location is Toronto head office in our hoteling work space Hours are reasonably flexible with no additional travelling involved What you'll do Work with asset/liability model to determine the impact of changes...

The deadline to apply for this role is: May 26, 2023 The opportunity September 2023 – December 2023 OR April 2024 (4 or 8 - month contract) You will be responsible for a variety of quantitative software development activities that will support the in-house cross asset class derivatives model library as well as related infrastructure. You will gain exposure to financial markets, more specifically, derivatives in different asset classes. Our team covers a vast range of products including Foreign Exchange markets, Interest Rates, Equity, Credit, Weather and Insurance derivatives. The Model Development team supports many different groups in the pension fund including Capital Markets, Risk Management, and Finance/Operations. Who you’ll work with You will mainly interact with three financial engineers – a Managing Director, Director, and a Principal. There will be opportunities to collaborate with other colleagues across the fund – in Capital Markets or Public Markets...

The deadline to apply for this role is: May 26, 2023 The opportunity September 2023 – December 2023 Are you looking to apply your analytical skills with one of the largest pension funds in Canada? As an intern within Ontario Teachers’ Risk department, you will be involved in supporting the development and improvement of risk management frameworks for the Total Fund. You will assist the team in assessing credit and capital markets risk including developing new tools and improving existing processes. Who you’ll work with You will be a part of a specialized team of twelve professionals with diverse backgrounds whose main role is to develop and constantly improve credit and capital markets risk frameworks. We are also responsible for evaluating our various counterparties. As a co-op, you will report to a Principal in the Risk department’s Credit & Capital Markets Risk team. The role will also provide several opportunities to interact with other teams within the Risk...