Our mission and objectives

We are the UK’s development finance institution, wholly owned by the UK Government.
We invest to create more productive, sustainable and inclusive economies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, enabling people in those countries to build better lives for themselves and their communities.
We invest around £1.5 billion every year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors that need our capital the most.
We currently partner with over 1,000 businesses in emerging economies, and we have total assets of £7.5 billion. We work with our investee partners to support them to succeed and grow impactful businesses.
We are at the heart of the UK Government’s international financing offer to emerging economies. That includes building partnerships with British businesses that operate in developing and emerging economies and who share our aims.
We are a key partner to emerging economies that are most vulnerable to the climate emergency. Over the next five years, at least 30 per cent of our total new commitments will be in climate finance, making us one of the world’s largest such investors in Africa. In the last few years, we have expanded our presence in Africa and Asia by opening new offices in Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan and Ghana; with additional locations opening soon.
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.
We work with like-minded ambitious people who are primarily motivated by our mission to deliver impact. We are a growing team of around 600 and place immense value on diversity within our organisation.
Read more about us at www.bii.co.uk

Location: London with an international assignment as part of the final rotation

Team and role overview

During your time on the Investment and Impact Graduate Analyst programme, you will be working across two teams: Impact and Investment. Our graduate programme will last two years preceded, by a six-week training period to prepare you for the programme. Your rotations will include nine months within the Impact group and nine months within an Investment team, followed by an International six-month rotation. After successful completion of the programme, you will have gained unique exposure to our organisation and have the potential to be considered for an associate position within either the Impact group or an Investment team.

During your international rotation, you will have the opportunity to work in one of our regional offices and will be required to travel accordingly.

The Impact team within British International Investment works alongside our Investment teams to assess, manage and evaluate the impact of our investments. This approach creates deals teams, who have the capability and expertise to deliver our development impact objectives whilst making a financial return. Our Impact team have developed a world-class framework for impact management based on international standards and, by the end of the programme, you will become a master in implementing it.

Our Investment teams have two key objectives – to support private sector growth and to make a financial return. Our teams are sector focused: we have a Financial Services team, an Infrastructure & Climate team, and a SMART Industries team (Services, Manufacturing, Food & Agri, Real Estate and Technology). Our sector groups are divided into product-focused sub teams for equity, debt and funds. Our teams invest in productive, sustainable and inclusive development with an increased focus on green infrastructure investments, financing digital transformation, and gender and diversity finance.

Responsibilities

Working within the Impact team your responsibilities might include:

Managing investments to enhance impact by participating in the design and implementation of initiatives.
Assessing development impact and working with the Investment team to inform the investment decision and define impact objectives.
Developing and delivering strategies for sectors to ensure consistency with our frameworks.
Creating high quality dashboards for each investment involving desk research, facilitating discussions and managing external suppliers.
Aid in impact data compilation, validation and analysis.
Thinking through the environmental and social issues of our investments and how to reduce, or mitigate, risks.
Contribute to ground-breaking thinking and guidance notes on new and emerging, environmental and social topics.

During your Investment team rotation, you could find yourself:

Analysing new investment proposals and deal opportunities, including supporting on and conducting financial analysis/modelling, valuation exercises, and market research.
Assisting senior team members with the due diligence on a specific company, sector, and country.
Undertaking research into regions, countries and specific sectors on an ad-hoc basis. This will include providing support to sector mapping exercises.
Performing discrete project work around sector mapping to identify potential opportunities and to help the Investment team develop these into projects.
Supporting senior team members on post-transaction management of portfolio companies.
Assisting in the creation of reports, which will be presented to the Investment Committee for approval.

The candidate

We’re looking for people that can demonstrate an interest in, and passion for, impact investing, emerging markets, and development finance.
A minimum 2:1 degree in any subject area.
A second language would be advantageous i.e., French.
Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Strong analytical and written and verbal communication skills.
Able to collaborate with teams and the larger business.
Driven to achieve results and hit objectives.
Ability to obtain agreement and cooperation in a ‘win-win’ fashion.
Ability to get going quickly after the six-week training period.
You should have an awareness and appreciation for our objectives, five-year strategy, and dual mandate.

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.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and parental, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Want to find out more?

Join us for a British International Investment introductory session on Zoom, 18 October 2022, 12:30-13:30 (GMT). You’ll have the opportunity to hear from colleagues in the Investment and Impact teams to find out more about each business area and ask any questions you might have. To sign up, click here.