eFront Specialist

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

Our team 

• The Technology and Security Department is around 40 people delivering IT services and Security (Cyber and Personal) to BII
• The Technology department relies on some 3rd party vendors for client services, security operations, monitoring etc. The core platform is built and supported internally on Azure.   
• The Business Applications team handles the application strategy and development work for our main self-hosted business system. There are many other peripheral systems hosted internally, externally or provided as a service. Our instance of eFront is hosted in Azure by BII and is heavily customised and configured to support BIIs highly bespoke business processes

Purpose

You will be a hands-on analyst/developer capable of working on problems from discovery through to implementation. You will make changes to our eFront installation to support business needs and non-functional requirements as part of a team. You will contribute to the oversight of the pipeline of requests for enhancements, fixes or new functions as well as working on larger projects. As well as development you will work on the maintenance of the existing system, integration with other systems and resolving issues escalated from the application support team or elsewhere.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with investment and operations teams to identify areas where eFront could benefit their work and improve processes, workflows, and information insights
• Analyse new requirements and design eFront solutions through configuration and customisation
• Work with team members to build and develop new functionality and processes
• Help analyse, specify, and deliver additional reports, data extracts, queries and dashboards
• Help manage and maintain a report catalogue
• Modify and update existing reports as necessary
• Modify develop and update interfaces with other systems
• Interact with project teams, Finance, IT, Investment Management and other stakeholder teams including software vendors and external consultants.

The candidate

Background, skills, aptitude

• 3+ years experience with eFront configuration and reporting tools including formal reports, dashboards and Excel reports and data ideally gained in a Private Equity (PE) / Alternative Markets environment.
• Experience with FrontInvest and FrontPM.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL, SSRS, DBMS and reporting tools
• Proof of successful management of small technology implementation/change projects
• Some experience with a programming language, JavaScript or VB.NET is a plus.

Competencies, aptitude

• Ability to quickly learn, implement, and utilise new technologies.
• Analytical and problem-solving. Combines and organise information into meaningful patterns; identifies underlying relationships, causes and effects; and combines pieces of information to form conclusions or general rules
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented. Consistently takes a thorough, accurate organised and quality-centred approach
• Organisation and prioritising. Can effectively address projects, requests and competing priorities. Owning deliverables through to implementation
• Self-learning mindset. Desires to learn new skills and is willing to share knowledge within the team
• Provide problem diagnosis and technical assistance.

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