Director, Investment Structure Management

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC•Toronto, ON

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians. With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide. For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

Requirements

Demonstrated commercial judgement and experience structuring and executing complex investment transactions.
Experience working across multiple internal disciplines and managing legal entity, governance, operational, and transaction execution considerations.
Ability to lead complex workstreams, anticipate dependencies and downstream implications, and drive issues to resolution.
Experience managing ongoing portfolio or legal entity requirements and providing senior management reporting on compliance or operational risk.
Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to investment and Core Services professionals.
Curiosity about technology and experience or interest in using AI-enabled tools, institutional knowledge systems, and process improvements to strengthen execution.
Motivated to contribute to something larger than yourself, approach complex challenges with rigor, and hold yourself to high standards in a collaborative, performance-driven environment.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end structuring and ongoing maintenance of complex new investments, exits, and restructurings across Credit, Private Equity, and Real Assets.
Partner with Investment Departments, Finance, Legal, Tax, Operations, and other internal teams to identify and address structuring and operational complexities associated with CPP Investments’ legal entity structures.
Coordinate the establishment of new legal entities and related legal and governance requirements in partnership with investment and Core Services teams.
Own transaction closing processes, anticipate dependencies and downstream implications, determine how workstreams are staffed and sequenced, and drive resolution of structuring issues that could delay closing.
Lead ongoing portfolio management of legal entity structures following close, including overseeing the transfer of ongoing operational activities for wholly owned entities to stakeholder teams.
Own quarterly reporting to senior management on legal entity compliance and operational risk metrics.
Support ISM’s technology roadmap, including implementation of AI-enabled tools, and lead or sponsor cross-functional initiatives that strengthen institutional knowledge, transaction execution infrastructure, and ISM’s contribution to the One Fund Strategy.