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About the Role

Join Capital Markets Investment Analytics (CMIA), an innovation-driven technology team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. This 8-month internship offers the chance to work and build tools for a software-based trading portfolio, managing a diversified set of portfolios and systematic applications. You will be mentored and guided by senior members of the CMIA team.

Responsibilities

• Improve and work on internal proprietary investment strategy codebase under senior guidance.
• Support investment functions including proprietary strategies, algorithmic trading, portfolio management, order management, risk analysis, automated reporting, P&L analysis, performance attribution, portfolio analytics, quantitative strategies research & implementation, regression tests, and investment reporting.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and introduce new ideas through analysis and research.
• Investigate and attribute portfolio profit and loss to various strategies and factors.
• Work with various datasets, including sourcing, cleaning, and visualization.
• Gain experience in asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
• Contribute to the development and optimization of portfolio implementation infrastructure and analytical tools.

Requirements

• Must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in a quantitative discipline like Engineering or Computer Science.
• Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and techniques, including design patterns, object-oriented programming, databases, and version control systems.
• Strong interest in financial markets.
• Strong motivation to learn about systematic investment strategies and automated trading systems.
• Must be returning to studies after the work term.
• Must be legally entitled to work in the country where the role is located.

Skills

• Strong programming skills in modern programming languages, with a preference for Python, MATLAB, and JavaScript.
• Highly creative, entrepreneurial, and resourceful.

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Internship
• 8-month term

Experience Level

• Intern

Education Level

• Undergraduate or graduate program in quantitative discipline (Engineering or Computer Science)

Salary/Compensations

• $30 - $36 per hour

Benefits

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, including lunch and learns
• Student led team building events on a monthly basis
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

About the Company

• Capital Markets Investment Analytics (CMIA) is an innovation-driven and centralized technology team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
• We manage a broad and diversified set of portfolios and systematic applications.
• Development and maintenance of these applications require a unique combination of strong software skills and investment knowledge.
• CMIA is a team of 4, based in Toronto.
• We work closely with portfolio managers to help implement and support various portfolios and applications.
• Our applications consist of back-testing, execution, and attribution.
• We work very closely in an open and collaborative environment.
• We are entrepreneurial, tight knit, and have a performance driven culture.

Equal Opportunity

• At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience.
• Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring.
• We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.
• Accommodations are available upon request (peopleandculture@otpp.com) for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.