Investment Associate, Teachers' Innovation Platform (Growth Equity)

Founded in 1990, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, with C$221.2 billion in net assets as of Dec. 31, 2020.

Teacher’s Innovation Platform (TIP) is the investment department within OTPP focused on late-stage venture and growth equity investments across the technology sector. With offices across San Francisco, Toronto, London, and Hong Kong, TIP has built a $5.0B global portfolio of investments and seeks to deploy up to $2.0B annually.

Direct investments focus on growth stage opportunities that span a wide array of disruptive technology verticals (i.e. enterprise SaaS, digital health, sustainability, digital assets, fintech). With a portfolio that includes category leaders like SpaceX, Epic Games, and FTX, TIP seeks to partner with founders with bold missions, looking to expand their product offering, scale geographically, and become leaders in their markets.

TIP is also a Limited Partner in some of the world’s top venture funds and has partnered directly with global technology companies to support the next generation of top venture capitalists.

The opportunity

We are hiring an Investment Associate to join our Toronto office. You will be supporting TIP’s North American direct investments team.

As an Investment Associate, you will play a key role in all aspects of the investment process: origination, deal execution, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring.

What you’ll do

• Develop investment theses and create memos to be presented to the investment committee

• Perform financial modelling and analysis (financial projections, sensitivity analysis, valuations, and returns)

• Drive sector research to identify investment targets and perform competitive analysis

• Evaluate and monitor the ongoing performance of portfolio company investments

• Develop and maintain relationships with startups, entrepreneurs, investment professionals, and service providers to facilitate deal sourcing

• Support ongoing strategic initiatives and reporting requirements

What you’ll need

• Undergraduate degree

• Minimum 2 years of investment or deal experience (investment banking, private equity, VC, hedge fund, management consulting)

• Mastery in financial modelling, valuation, and quantitative analysis

• Strong work ethic, team mindset, communication & presentation skills

• Ability to operate independently with limited supervision

• High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

• Relevant experience and keen interest in start-ups and disruptive technologies

What we're offering

• Pay for performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentive

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage

• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan

• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

• Competitive time off

• Discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

• Degreed: a digital platform that helps you quickly and easily discover, share, and track various learning resources — from courses to videos to articles and more.

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We are a globally minded organization and take pride ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create reflect and celebrate diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Inclusion & Diversity Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) events, celebrations , we offer a variety of opportunities for colleagues to connect for the purposes of professional development and networking & mentoring.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today!

Accommodations are available upon request (talent_acquisition@otpp.com) for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.

Note that all individuals employed by Ontario Teachers’ in our Toronto office will be required to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. We remain committed to an accessible, inclusive and barrier free workplace; written requests for a human rights-based exemption from vaccination will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

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