Transactions & Total Portfolio Risk Co-op/Internship (Winter and/or Summer 2025)

Closing date: October 3, 2024

Use your critical thinking skills in a fast-growing company where you can have an impact. The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) is currently seeking a Transactions & Total Portfolio Risk Co-op Student/Intern for the Winter and/or Summer (January to April or August 2025) work terms to support the Investment Strategy & Risk team. If you are a highly motivated, team player who can handle multiple projects and are interested in developing your professional career and learning more about driving sustainable growth, accelerating innovation and operating on a global scale, this is the opportunity for you!

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

BCI manages a globally diversified portfolio of assets valued at $250.4 billion and is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors. We invest globally to support pension and other funds for more than 30 clients based in British Columbia. We are proud to have been chosen as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and BC’s Top Employers. These national and provincial competitions recognize employers who offer exceptional workplaces for their employees.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work with the Transactions & Total Portfolio Risk team within the Investment Strategy & Risk department. The Investment Strategy & Risk (ISR) department plays a key role in BCI’s long-term investment strategy by influencing and advising on investment decisions made by clients, management and asset classes.   

ISR consists of three branches: Investment Strategy, Investment Risk and Strategic Asset Allocation. 

• Investment Research & Governance advises on and influences total portfolio investment strategy and governance. This includes maintaining macroeconomic perspectives, evaluating ESG opportunities and long-term trends, benchmark governance and the design and implementation of total portfolio approaches and solutions. 

• Strategic Asset Allocation assists clients with developing tailored investment policies that achieve their investment objectives consistent with their investment philosophies, funding policies and risk tolerances. 

• Investment Risk includes the maintenance of systems for monitoring, measuring, and estimating various forms of relevant investment risks across the various asset classes that BCI currently invests or may invest in and aggregating that risk at a total fund level. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Assist in performing industry and company research (private equity, Infrastructure, etc.)

• Provide support in responding to requests other teams/departments in BCI

• Assist with the production of risk assessments for potential new investments

• Assist with what-if analysis for new deal/product/instrument

• Assist in the development/production of dashboards for asset classes and the BCI total fund

• Help validate and document data procedures to ensure accuracy and consistency with projects specifications

• Ad-hoc projects in VBA, SQL, Matlab, Fabric, and more

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Students in graduate programs such as Risk Management, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Business etc. are preferred

• B+ equivalent cumulative GPA

• Familiarity with various financial instruments

• Has relevant prior co-op experience at a bank or investment firm

• Demonstrates an ability to gather and process large amount of data and information and present it in a concise manner

• Demonstrates an extremely strong work ethic and displays initiative to strive to deliver value above and beyond the job description

• Familiarity with VBA, SQL, MatLab and Bloomberg are preferred

• Exhibit a high level of professionalism and excellent interpersonal skills

• Participates in a student investment club or other investment case competitions

• Have a passion for investment management, a dedication to challenging work, commitment to the highest ethical standards, and an eagerness to learn

• Analytical and problem-solving abilities 

WHAT WE OFFER

• Training and mentorship to develop your knowledge and professional skill sets that are required to succeed in the industry

• Be a valued part of a team and work culture that is down to earth, values your perspective and rewards transparency and accoun