Fund Admin Team Leader, Investment Operations (6 month FTC)

About BII

British International Investment (BII) is the UK’s leading development finance institution, wholly owned by the UK Government. Our primary mission is to address global development challenges through strategic investments that promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

BII focuses on catalysing economic development, creating jobs, and building resilient economies in some of the world's most complex and underserved markets. We invest in businesses and projects that prioritise inclusive development, environmental sustainability, and innovation.

Our approach is characterised by rigorous investment standards, high governance principles, and a commitment to delivering measurable development impact. Our team consists of highly skilled and passionate professionals dedicated to making a tangible difference globally.

We foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating work environment that values curiosity, innovation, and professional growth. Our culture balances high performance with a strong emphasis on wellbeing, ensuring our employees can achieve their full potential while contributing to our mission.

BII at a glance:

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

More than £9.9 billion in net assets

1,600+ businesses invested in

950,000+ workers in the businesses we support

650+ people in our diverse global team

3 key development objectives: Productive | Sustainable | Inclusive

Team and role overview

Purpose

The Investment Operations team is made up of three groups:

• Data Management – responsible for ensuring investment related data is appropriate, accurate and consistent. Responsible for implementation and development of the Data Governance Policy.
• Portfolio Administration – responsible for ensuring all transactions are processed in a timely manner and recorded accurately. Responsible for ensuring BII’s portfolio of investments is monitored for lifecycle events and administered effectively and efficiently.
• Reconciliations and Reporting – responsible for conducting cash and stock reconciliations, and monitoring receipt and processing reporting due from investee companies, funds and borrowers.

This role will sit within the Portfolio Administration team and focus on direct equity and private equity fund investments.

The Equity and Fund Administration Team Leader will organise the day-to-day work to ensure that all direct equity and private equity fund transactions are processed in an accurate and timely manner, providing expertise and guidance on direct equity and private equity fund transactions. They will lead on process improvements to ensure the team’s work is delivered in a controlled and efficient manner, deputising for the Head of Portfolio Administration on change projects focused on BII’s equity portfolio.

Responsibilities

Provide a bullet point list of the responsibilities and duties of this job.

• Team leader for Equity and Fund Administration
• Manage priorities and workloads for themselves and other team members, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and to a high quality
• Collaborate with BII’s legal and investment teams to ensure that new investments are onboarded, monitored for ongoing lifecycle events, and exited in an efficient and timely manner
• Collaborate with BII’s legal and investment teams on all operational aspects of equity and fund documentation
• Analyse underlying investments in private equity funds and update BII systems
• Provide reporting on BII’s equity portfolio
• Be an advisor to the wider company on the equity portfolio
• Identify and implement improvements to existing processes, ensuring process documentation is thorough and complete
• Provide cover for the Loan Administration Team Leader during periods of absence

The candidate

Background, skills, aptitude

Essential skills and experience

• Experience as a team leader within a portfolio administration function or fund accountancy at a financial institution
• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise of direct equity and private equity fund products
• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise on equity and fund administration processes
• In-depth understanding of portfolio administration systems, ideally eFront
• Ability to multi-task and balance team activities without losing sight of deadlines, processing transactions in an accurate and timely manner
• Ability to proactively consult with a wide range of stakeholders and work with them to find solutions that satisfy a number of issues
• Ability to develop and implement solutions to improve processes and systems across the team
• Expert ability to navigate excel to identify and gather relevant information and able to present data in understandable ways for senior audiences

Desirable skills and experience

• CISI Investment Operations Certificate (IOC) or an appropriate accounting qualification
• Experience working with emerging markets, particularly India
• Experience working with workflow management systems, ideally JIRA
• 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