Business Analyst

Our mission and objectives

• British International Investment is the UK’s development finance institution, owned by the UK Government. We invest with the aim of solving the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation.
• We have 75 years of experience successfully supporting the sustainable, long-term growth of businesses in Africa and Asia, and have recently expanded to invest in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean.
• We invest to achieve impact and a financial return which is then reinvested for more impact. Over the past five years, we have committed £7 billion of new investments, with our net assets growing in value to approximately £8.1 billion. We are now invested in 1,400 businesses which directly employ over 950,000 workers and support many more. Over the next five years, we plan to grow further, and aim to commit around £9 billion of new investments over the period.
• Our current five-year strategy responds to the opportunities and challenges facing developing and emerging economies. To ensure our capital is used in the best way possible to meet these opportunities and challenges, it sets out three clear strategic objectives – to invest in productive, sustainable and inclusive development. These objectives mean an increased focus on climate finance, including investing in green infrastructure; on financing digital transformation; and on driving inclusive outcomes, including through gender and diversity finance.
• We changed our name to British International Investment in 2022, to more accurately reflect our central role in the UK Government’s international financing offer.
• In the last few years, we have expanded our presence in Africa and Asia by opening new offices in Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ghana and Singapore; with further expansion planned.
• We take an entrepreneurial approach to investment. We think innovatively about ways to deploy our capital, attract, and mobilise other investors, and drive transformational impact.
• Deliver impact. We are a team of over 600 and place immense value on diversity within our organisation.
• Read more about us and the strategy at co.uk

Team and role overview

• Change Management are responsible for the effective delivery of BII’s major transformation portfolio. To do this, Change Management apply project management, business analysis, change management and other project delivery disciplines to lead change and create benefits for BII.
  
  

Purpose

• BII are undertaking significant change to create a more robust and efficient operating model with the objective of providing significant improvements in its investment decision-making, portfolio management and portfolio administration processes through operational and technology improvements. Reporting to and assisting the Programme Manager an experienced and pragmatic Business Analyst is needed, the primary responsibilities of the role are to

1. Evaluate change requirements and develop solution options ensuring process and technology enhancements across the programme and wider BII landscape are cohesive and capable of delivering the improvements desired
2. Working with change and technology resources, assist in detailed design and provide ongoing support during development and test activities to ensure intended benefits are realised

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand their needs
• Develop and refine solution ideas with business, change and technology resources
• Create business cases detailing cost, timeline and resource estimates
• Coordinate and participate in detailed design exercises
• Identify data requirements and enhancements required to BII’s enterprise data model
• Ensure changes delivered by the programme are providing consistent solutions engineering to meet the needs of investment and operational teams
• Assist programme resources in development, test and delivery activities
• Support wider delivery of the programme within agreed scope/ schedule/ cost/ quality
• Collaborate with change management peers to enable continuous improvement of programme delivery

The candidate
Background, skills, aptitude

• Successful candidates will have:
• Experience delivering formal business projects within private equity, investment management, investment banking or similar financial organisation
• Experience of front, middle and back-office functions, and their requirements
• Stakeholder Management, experience leading project requirement-gathering across a wide stakeholder group at all levels of the organisation.
• Proven ability to see the bigger picture, able to demonstrate use of in-depth insight and foresight to challenge and promote collective thinking to support the right project outcome
• Strong record of project delivery across multiple organisations providing both operational and technology change
• Comfortable to work and be proactive in ambiguous/ uncertain environments, with the ability to problem solve across multiple teams
• Good understanding of investment technology

 Essential skills include:

• Experience designing and producing compelling analytical solutions for Investment Professionals using qualitative and quantitative measures
• Knowledge of data architectures, data warehouses, data lakes etc.
• Experience of utilising data visualisation tools to improve enterprise reporting capabilities
• Strong analytic skills, ability to analyse problems, identify cause and develop potential solution options
• Ability to approach problems from a range of different angles, making connections between disparate processes, pieces of information
• A good understanding of business analysis tools and practical techniques in change management that can be applied to a variety of situations
• Defining Target Operating models, business re-engineering techniques and detail process mapping experience
• Data analysis skills, proficiency in SQL and understanding of Investment Data
• The ability to work in a fast paced, evolving environment
• Stands by own decisions and actions, accepting accountability
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail with good business awareness, project delivery and organisational skills

Desirable skills include:

• Knowledge of private equity and/or direct debt
• Previous experience with the Blackrock eFront solution
• Knowledge of Data Management and database design and development in an investment environment
• Understanding of common issues and problems with Investment technology platforms

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