Executive Portfolio Impact Monitoring & Reporting

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 £8.8 billion in net assests

1,400+ 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

The Development Impact – Analytics and Insights Team within the Impact Group are responsible for monitoring, reporting and analyzing the impact of our investments. Within the team, the executive, Portfolio Impact Monitoring & Reporting has responsibility for quality controlling, aggregating, analysing and reporting impact monitoring data (based on data collected across underlying investments), with the guidance of the Analytics and Insights manager. For the portfolio-wide impact metrics we collect see: Key data - British International Investment (bii.co.uk) – The Impact of our Investments. 

Purpose

The executive will oversee the day-to-day delivery of portfolio impact monitoring, including managing and co-ordinating data capture, managing data quality control and preparing data analytics. They may also represent BII externally in wider data harmonisation initiatives (EDFI, HIPSO, JIM etc.). Both portfolio impact data and impact score assurance are business critical tasks which need to be reported at Board Level to BII’s Development Impact Committee, to FCDO and publicly in BII’s Annual Review. The role is time sensitive, meaning that tasks must be done at specified times of the year (Impact Score Assurance from Jan-March and Portfolio Impact Data from April-May).  

To achieve these tasks, depending on team structure the executive maybe required to oversee the work of an associate. In addition, they are likely to support a change management process (“the Data Transformation Project”) as BII seeks to improve the efficiency of its data collection processes – so familiarity and comfort working with organizational change will be important for this role. As part of this, the executive will be required to support the build out the data analytics function, including collecting benchmarks and finding ways to articulate and interpret data trends, as well as providing inputs to the process of requesting changes to BIIs core list of indicators that investees are required to report. 

Responsibilities

• Perform and co-ordinate impact data capture: organise data capture in BIIs data management system (eFront), co-ordinate data collection and entry across multiple stakeholders spanning investment and impact teams. Plan with BII’s Communications Team to ensure process is completed in time for publication in BII’s Annual Review.   
• Conduct impact data quality control: Manage and oversee quality control of all impact data, and where required assign tasks and ensure roles and responsibilities in relation to quality control are understood by all those involved. Support the manager in final decision on inclusions/exclusions according to quality requirements (requiring some knowledge of investments/businesses to inform likelihood of data accuracy). 
• Data analysis and reporting: oversee data preparation and analysis for the Annual Review. Co-ordinate with Communications Team and Impact Group Management on latest requirements for Annual Review and wider external reporting (e.g. website data, FCDO reporting etc.). Review all results provided by the Impact Group for quality control and ensure a second pair of eyes on all results. Review results in relation to historic data and determine which analysis needs to be conducted to feed into the Annual Review narrative.  
• Support Impact Group and other BII teams in their use of impact  use and interpretation: consult and contribute to mobilisation work, transparency project, carbon footprint and gender and diversity data analysis etc.  
• Provide evaluations with internal data: Provide Evaluation Executives and external consultants with data sets as needed to perform studies commissioned by BII and/or FCDO and help consultants/evaluators to understand and work with relevant data sets.   
• Support continued improvement in data procedures: contribute towards the creation of data process improvements by participation, under the guidance of the manager, in the “Data Transformation Project” including software update requests, internal decisions on digital data collection opportunities and improve access and usability of data to enhance analysis and learning opportunities (e.g. through making analysis available using internal dashboards).   

The candidate

We are looking for someone with a practical understanding of impact data metrics in an investment context (including business growth indicators), who has a good understanding of different investment structures (debt, equity, funds) and what this means for data collection, computation, and interpretation (e.g. when attributing climate emissions or jobs supported results).  

They should be able to talk confidently about impact data trends and issues, and to contribute towards process and analytical improvements. They must also be highly proficient in data management, including aggregation and quality control checks – and to contribute towards effective communication with senior management and the board’s Development Impact Committee.  

Background, skills, aptitude

• The candidate should be offer experience in, and be able to demonstrate: 
  • Meticulous attention to detail and confidence with numerical data/use of spreadsheets and in relation to their own evidence checks 
  • Excellent data collection and analysis skills, including experience of effectively analysing data and drawing meaningful insights that inform actions  
  • Coordinating inputs across a large number of individuals and teams  
  • Results delivery under strict time pressured deadlines 
• The candidate will need to be self-motivated, organised, and able to maintain focus while working for extended periods in datasheets – requiring high levels of drive and perseverance. 
• Candidate must demonstrate the ability to determine whether investments pass or fail data quality checks (with reference to BII’s data procedures) and meticulously document the reasons for their decisions, and to articulate these verbally (note that adherence to internal guidelines will be audited by BII’s internal audit function meaning a decision log is vital) 

Technical Skills 

• Excel proficiency is essential, with high proficiency in other Microsoft Products (Outlook, Word, SharePoint and PowerPoint).  
• Strong academic background in science, business or social sciences with a strong data focus (e.g. CFA qualifications, economics, business or maths)  
• A good understanding of, and experience working with impact and financial data (e.g. must be able to understand and interpret metrics such as revenues, COGS, EBITDA, taxes and wages paid, and be able to calculate compound annual growth rates and understand and explain where growth rates are not valid e.g. when moving from pre-profit to profit-making).   
• Excellent problem-solving skills.    
• Strong project and people/stakeholder management skills.    

Personal skills 

• Collaborative: Proven ability to work closely with colleagues from different teams in a constructive and solution-driven manner. 
• Results-focus: Proactive with drive to achieve objectives/results and the ability to make quick-decisions. Able to work calmly and productively under pressure. Keen to roll-up sleeves, suggest and build new ideas.  
• Personal effectiveness: Organising self and others to meet agreed deadlines. Track record in efficient, high-quality delivery. Good time management, prioritisation and productivity.   
• Relationships: effective at building and maintaining relationships. Conducts oneself in a professional manner, representing BII’s values.   
• 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. 

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Salary: Competitive