Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

Investment Analyst, Infrastructure & Natural Resources (Agriculture & Mining)

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan$115K — $125K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in investment banking, principal investing, or mergers & acquisitions advisory
  • Experience with natural resource-linked industries (food/agriculture, timberland, mining) and understanding of commodity fundamentals
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting to senior audiences and influencing others
  • Strong analytical and quantitative abilities for in-depth critical analysis
  • Proactive and detail-oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Build and employ financial modeling tools to analyze investment opportunities
  • Assist in due diligence and lead the valuation workstream, integrating findings into financial models
  • Identify key value drivers and financial risks, performing sensitivity and scenario analysis
  • Collaborate with external advisors and submit bids under tight timelines
  • Prepare presentations, reports, and investment recommendations for senior management and the Board of OTPP
  • Analyze financial reports and budgets prepared by portfolio companies' management
  • Work with portfolio company management to maintain financial models for strategic analysis
  • Support internal strategic projects and prepare reporting materials for annual valuations across the team's portfolio

Benefits

  • Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage
  • Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
  • Opportunity to invest back into the fund through the Deferred Incentive Program
  • Flexible work environment with a mix of in-office collaboration and remote work
  • Competitive time off policy
  • Flexible Travel Program allowing one month of work abroad each year
  • Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
Full Job Description
The opportunity

As an Investment Analyst in the Natural Resources (NR) team within the Infrastructure and Natural Resources (INR) group, you will have a key role in analyzing potential private investment opportunities, executing transactions and working with existing portfolio companies to craft strategy and implement value-enhancing initiatives.

If you are an excellent teammate, highly motivated, while working on multiple projects in a fast-paced transaction-based environment  this is the job for you.

Who Youll Work With

You will be joining our Toronto office, where you will work in a dynamic team-based environment, directly supporting senior team members in agriculture, timberland, mining and energy, across geographic regions. You will have the chance to define and differentiate yourself as an investor and build strategic relationships within the global market.

INR consists of a team of ~65 highly-specialized private equity investment professionals, with offices in Toronto, London, Singapore and Mumbai, and an additional presence in Santiago, Chile. INR leads a geographically diverse portfolio with approximately C$47 billion of net assets in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

The NR group is a specialized private investments group with approximately C$12 billion of assets as of December 31, 2025. NR owns and manages investments in mining, energy, timberland, agriculture and natural climate solution sectors, located in North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The NR portfolio contributes real returns, income, inflation protection and portfolio diversification to the overall investment portfolio of Ontario Teachers.


What Youll Do

  • Build and employ financial modeling tools to analyze investment opportunities;

  • Assist in the due diligence process and leading the valuation workstream and incorporate the findings into a financial model;

  • Identify key value drivers and financial risks and perform related financial sensitivity and scenario analysis;

  • Work closely with external advisors, consultants and partners to assess risks and submit bids under tight timelines;

  • Prepare presentations, reports, and investment recommendations to senior management and, where applicable, the Board of OTPP;

  • Review and analyze financial reports, budgets, board books and other information prepared by management of our portfolio companies;

  • Work with portfolio company management to build and maintain financial models that are used to analyze strategic issues and value the company;

  • Support internal strategic project initiatives, and the preparation of internal reporting materials including annual valuations across the teams portfolio of assets

What Youll Need
  • Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience, preferably in investment banking, principal investing, or mergers & acquisitions advisory

  • Ideally experience with Natural Resource linked industries (food/agriculture, timberland, mining) and an understanding of commodity fundamentals

  • Bachelors degree required

  • Strong financial modelling and valuation skills

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence others and comfortably presenting to senior audiences

  • Excellent analytical and quantitative skills and ability to perform in-depth, creative, critical analysis

  • Ability and desire to work in a vigorous, fast-paced environment, and balance multiple priorities under demanding timelines, while remaining detail oriented

  • A proactive attitude and drive to deliver value in a team of highly self-motivated investment professionals

  • Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint

  • A willingness and ability to travel

What were offering

Pay-for-performance with base salary and annual incentive based on individual and enterprise performance. The Base salary for this level is $115,000 in Year 1 and $125,000 in Year 2. Individual compensation and placement of this role in the range is based on different factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, demonstrated competencies, and internal equity as they relate to the role.

  • Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

  • Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage

  • Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan

  • The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program

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

  • Competitive time off

  • Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year

  • Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

Functional Areas:

Investments

Vacancy:

Current

Requisition ID:

7188#LI-RM1

About Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for school teachers of the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario Teachers' also invests the plan's pension fund and it is one of the world's largest institutional investors, acting as a partner organization of the World Economic Forum. The plan is a multi-employer pension plan, jointly sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Teachers' Federation. Ontario Teachers' achieved a 11.1% one-year total-fund net return in 2021 and achieved its ninth consecutive fully funded year.
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