Risk Analytics Associate / Executive

About BII

British International Investment is the UK’s development finance institution, owned by the UK Government. With a mission to solve the biggest global development challenges, we aim to create a virtuous circle of investment and impact. Your contribution will be essential. 

It won’t be easy: we do the hardest work in the most complex markets. Be prepared to test your skills, get creative and say your piece as you take on high-profile work as part of a diverse team of exceptionally smart, passionate people. 

In return, you can take your career to all-new places in a culture that rewards curiosity and collaboration and balances high performance with wellbeing.

BII at a glance

Over 75 years supporting sustainable business growth in developing and emerging markets

More than £8 billion in net assets

1,400+ businesses invested in

950,000 workers in the businesses we support

£9 billion in new investments planned in the next 5 years

600+ people in our diverse global team

3 key development objectives: Productive | Sustainable | Inclusive

Team and role overview

BII’s Risk function is responsible for overseeing BII’s risk management framework, including:

• Leading initiatives to clearly articulate BII’s risk appetite.
• Designing, implementing and ensuring the effective functioning of BII’s risk framework in line with the organisation’s activities and external requirements.
• Supporting risk owners in the identification and understanding of risks, enabling them to make informed decisions about how to mitigate risks to be consistent with risk appetite. Providing effective challenge to first line risk owners to raise standards and improve risk management processes in the rest of the organisation.
• Provide risk reporting to executive committees, the Board and Shareholder, enabling these bodies to understand the risks facing BII and how they are being managed.

Risk management is critical to every aspect of our businesses at BII. The Risk Office is central to identify, mitigate and manage risk and maintain transparency with all stakeholders.  

Purpose

• The role of the Risk Analytics Associate is to support the Credit and Operational Risk team in achieving its objectives, with a particular focus on designing and strengthening risk data capture, analysis, presentation and reporting in order to enhance investment risk understanding and management at BII, including Impact and Climate Risk data. The Risk Analytics Associate will work across BII’s investment, transaction, IT and operations support teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the overall Risk department mission and objectives
• Conduct analysis to enable portfolio management and risk limits processes
• Working with impact teams to develop innovative rating, quantification and stress test approaches.
• Monitor Impact, including Climate risk on the portfolio
• Organise data collection and curation processes; maintain limit management tools
• Maintain internal risk policy documentation
• Support other change initiatives across the organisation

Ad-hoc projects

• Manage risk-team wide processes, as agreed with the Chief Risk Officer and Credit and Operational Risk Director
• Support the Risk team in the delivery of projects focused on enhancements to the risk framework or mitigation of specific high-priority risks

The candidate
Background

• 5+ years of relevant experience within an investment bank, consultancy, DFI or private equity fund
• Strong understanding of private markets e.g. private equity, private credit or infrastructure and ideally some exposure to emerging markets
• Familiarity with financial market concepts and drivers
• An understanding of the role played by DFIs in impact investing

Technical Skills

• Strong modelling skills, proficient in Excel, PowerBI and PowerPoint
• Strong data analytics skills and familiarity with a range of risk management techniques including stress testing, exposure measurement and monitoring.
• Highly numerate and analytical
• Demonstrable ability to gather, evaluate, distil and present risk management information

Personal Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills with a persuasive, diplomatic, confident manner
• Ability to communicate complex topics clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Ability to work across all levels within the organisation and provide constructive challenge
• Ability to establish and retain effective working relationships with stakeholders
• Organisational skills and ability to plan and manage multiple tasks concurrently
• Attention to detail when preparing reports and analysing data
• An understanding of and belief in the development finance sector
• Ability to embrace change and manage ambiguity
• Candidates should be strongly motivated by BII’s development mission and ideally demonstrate some commitment to development or social goals through previous executive or non-executive activity

Our cultural values

We look for team members who aspire, as we do, to work at our best and to be:

• Impact-led, commercially rigorous
• Tenacious in the face of challenges
• Collaborative and caring

British International Investment is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background. 

Please provide a cover letter with your application

Salary: Competitive