PSP Investments | Analyst/Senior Analyst, Alternative Investments

Responsibilities include, but not limited to

• At PSP Investments, you’ll join a team of motivated and engaged professionals, dedicated to propelling our organization further than ever before.
• Across the core strategies, the IS team partners with top-tier hedge funds as a fund investor and co-investment partner, as well as managing a book of direct investments.
• As an Analyst or a Senior Analyst, Alternative Investments, you will support the evaluation, execution, and monitoring of investments across a broad range of alternative strategies, including co-investments and hedge funds.
• You will work closely with senior investment professionals and develop the analytical skills and investment judgment required to assess complex opportunities.
• The opportunity to work temporarily from another location in accordance with the applicable policy
• Build financial models and perform valuation, return, scenario, and risk analyses across prospective and existing investments.
• Evaluate investment opportunities through fundamental research, financial analysis, due diligence and assessment of key investment risks and return drivers.
• Support the development of investment recommendations and the preparation of investment memoranda and materials for senior investment professionals and investment committees.
• Conduct fundamental research on companies, industries and markets in support of existing and prospective investments.
• Monitor portfolio performance and support portfolio construction and optimization analyses.
• Participate in due diligence and transaction execution, including reviewing financial and transaction materials and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Interact with external managers, investment partners, bankers, brokers and other market participants as part of the investment process.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of investment processes, analytical frameworks, portfolio tools, and research methodologies.
• Capturing and leading complex global investments requires us to work as one to seize valuable opportunities, in close collaboration with some of the world’s top companies.
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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, financial engineering, or another highly quantitative discipline.
• Strong financial modelling, valuation, and investment analysis skills.
• Strong attention to detail and a high standard of accuracy, combined with the ability to synthesize large amounts of information and identify the key issues that drive an investment decision.
• Sound judgment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with a willingness to challenge assumptions and develop an independent point of view.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex analyses and investment conclusions clearly and concisely.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Bloomberg, FactSet, Capital IQ, or similar financial databases is an asset.
• Strong work ethic, initiative and the ability to operate effectively in a collaborative investment environment.
• Good communications skills in English and French (or willingness to learn) (regular interactions in English with investment partners based outside of Quebec Example: peers, bankers, brokerage firms, etc. and PSP employees in our offices in Hong Kong, London and New York, and interactions in French with employees in our local offices in Montreal and Ottawa)

PSP Investments

PSP Investments is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "We're the next generation of pension fund managers."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Montreal.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance