Senior Investment Risk Analyst
Department: Investment Risk – Risk, Actuarial Services, and Plan Policy
Type: Contract –14 months
Location: Toronto (Hybrid)
Posting Date: November 17, 2025
At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.
When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast-paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.
What OPTrust Offers You
Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.
A purpose-driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.
A flexible, hybrid work model.
Benefits package after six months of consecutive employment.
Optional membership in our world-class defined benefit pension plan.
A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee-led resource groups.
About the role
The Investment Risk team plays a critical role in developing, expanding, and implementing the risk management function at OPTrust. Acting as a second line of defense, the team measures, monitors, and assesses all investments through the lenses of funding, market, liquidity, concentration, counterparty credit, and ESG risks. The team works closely and collaboratively with the Investment Division to provide risk management advisory and support for OPTrust, while maintaining the independence necessary to fulfill its oversight mandate.
The Senior Investment Risk Analyst will be responsible for performing and expanding advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis to critically evaluate investment risks in OPTrust’s Total Fund with a focus on Total Portfolio Management (TMP). The individual will participate in the identification of risks in OPTrust’s investment activities including market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk.
What you’ll do
Investment Risk Identification, Assessment and Monitoring
Lead in identification of risks in the Total Fund and capital markets activities, including market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and derivative counterparty risk.
Responsible for timely and accurate trading risk analysis and risk reporting.
Provide support for risk-related inquiries from the Board, Senior Management, investment teams, auditors, and regulators, performing ad-hoc analysis, proposing recommendations and producing related reporting as required.
Research and Analysis
Stay abreast of markets, current events and industry topics.
Stay informed of best practices in risk management through independent learning and by networking with peers, consultants, academics and attending industry conferences as required.
Act as a subject matter expert in key research and development projects; conduct research, design, and delivery of custom analytics.
Lead in conducting risk due diligence of new capital markets strategies.
Lead ad hoc analysis and implement and improve risk management processes aligned to the best industry practices and OPTrust’s business plan.
Validate, implement, and maintain documented knowledge of pricing models, risk factor models, and risk metrics used in the Risk System.
Contribute to ad-hoc and scheduled research conducted by the Investment Division in support of investment strategy and Annual Investment Plan.
Support the research, identification, and application of relevant ESG and climate risk metrics as required.
Coordination & Communication
Work closely with Investment Risk colleagues to ensure that risk is appropriately assessed within the risk system for all investments.
Participate in the New Product Approval and New Counterparty Approval process.
Participate in the Counterparty Credit Risk Working Group (CCWG) by performing regular counterparty reviews.
Frequent engagement with external data vendors and providers to receive timely investment data and resolve any data discrepancies on an as needed basis.
Draft internal reports to communicate key findings from investment risk initiatives.
Build positive relationships and work closely with the front, middle, and back-office teams to support Investment Risk in capital markets activities.
Support other Investment Risk initiatives related to OPTrust Total Fund, externally managed portfolios, and private asset investments as required.
Ongoing collaboration with internal teams to obtain investment data on a timely basis to meet internal reporting deadlines.
Change Management & Process Enhancement
Continuously strive to incorporate efficiencies and automation (self-driven or externalized) to enhance risk reporting processes.
Contribute to the design and implementation of robust processes and technology to support data integrity, transformation and storage as needed.
What you bring
Minimum of 4 years of industry experience.
Relevant experience in risk management with a bank, pension plan, asset management firm or investment consulting firm is desirable, as well as strong understanding of financial markets and risk metrics.
Undergraduate or advanced degree in Finance or other related discipline preferred.
Attainment or working towards a professional designation such as PRM, FRM, CFA or a master’s degree in a quantitative finance or economics related discipline.
Ability to analyze financial market data, as well as technical and programming experience with Excel/VBA, Access/SQL, Python, and other programming languages is desirable.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills and demonstrated quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
Effective research and organizational skills to produce professional written reports and presentations and excellent written and oral communication skills gained from delivering presentations to a diverse audience.
High degree of self-motivation and initiative and demonstrated ability to work as a team player with well-rounded interpersonal skills.
Experience with third-party risk management software such as MSCI RiskManager, as well as data analytics and visualization software such as Tableau or PowerBI, is an asset.
Exemplify OPTrust’s values: collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence, and continuous improvement.
Please submit your application via Workday by December 1, 2025.
Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and perspectives are critical to achieving our shared goals.
If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please send a message to careers@optrust.com, or discuss your needs with the Talent Acquisition Consultant during the telephone screening. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.
As an organization we’re seeking ways to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 92. We are working with the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business to build bridges with Indigenous communities and partners, and we have created an employee-led Reconciliation Working Group that will work with Indigenous experts to identify a path to reconciliation for our organization.
We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.