Analyst, Asset Allocation And Capital Solutions

Team and role overview

The Chief Investment Officer (CIO) works with investment teams to set and execute the investment strategy across all sectors, products, regions and Capital portfolios. The Office of the CIO covers three areas overseen by the Chief Investment Officer:

• Asset Allocation and Capital Solutions

• Investment Policy and Decision Making

• Portfolio Management and Special Situations

Team overview

Building off success with Catalyst Strategies, the Asset Allocation and Capital Solutions function was established in 2021 to develop capabilities for BII across two new priority areas:

• Asset Allocation: Providing strategic direction on shaping BII’s future portfolio to deliver our impact and financial objectives across geographies, sectors and products. The team will provide an anchor point to prioritise and guide decision-making on these opportunities, in collaboration with key partners across the firm.

• Capital Solutions: Providing the tools to deliver BII’s development goals, either through existing funding facilities (Growth, Catalyst, BII Plus) or with new ones, for which key parameters around impact, risk, return and governance must be designed and implemented.

Each of these capabilities will rely on providing meaningful business intelligence and portfolio analysis to support leadership and decision making, in service of the Asset Allocation and Capital Strategy ambitions and the broader BII business.

Key responsibilities

Manage data analytics behind the Asset Allocation framework and toolkit

• Own and enhance existing tools and data systems which enable the tracking of pipeline and portfolio performance, portfolio optimisation and forecasting model.

• Contribute to the design of the data architecture of BII to enable this.

• Liaise with relevant functions within BII – Finance, Investment teams, Risk, Operations, Impact Group – to connect front and middle office data processes and analytics.

Build new tools to drive optimal portfolio construction

• Create and maintain a set of models to facilitate regular analysis and real-time data across the pipeline and portfolio such as optimisation models for efficient frontier analysis, forecasting models for scenario planning.

• Develop benchmarking capabilities to compare BII performance to markets, peers.

• Build dashboards for regular reviews of portfolio evolution with management.

Support with analytics for projects across the team such as:

• Support analysis and reporting of key investment and impact performance data across the portfolio to drive dynamic adjustments and decision making.

• Collaborate with team members of AACS and CIO Office and provide input and support for ad hoc projects as needed.

The Candidate

Background

• Must be proficient in quantitative analytics, with some professional experience in financial services such as working in a private equity firm, investment bank or asset manager etc.

• University degree in data science, finance, business, economics, maths, physics or relevant adjacencies (or equivalent)

• Demonstrable interest in development finance in emerging markets

Technical skills:

• Strong numerical, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Financial modelling skills including at transaction and portfolio level with experience of portfolio monitoring and analysis (across different financial and other dimensions)

• Exposure to multiple financial products, portfolio construction experience and financial structuring will be a benefit

• Experience with or knowledge of SQL, Python, VBA, or other statistical analysis software (Tableau / Power BI) is a plus

Personal skills:

• Creative, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Comfort with pioneering a path where none exists. Equally, able to prioritise and focus energy on key outcomes.

• Ability to work collaboratively across sector and product teams and stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills. Experience with professional writing ideal.

Style and motivation:

• The ideal candidate is excited by the complexity and ambiguity of the markets and products BII operates within and should be: smart, fun, collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial, solution-oriented, open-minded and effective, flexible in nature as we build a new function and team.

• Must be highly driven by BII’s development mandate, and enthusiastic for the chance to establish BII as a pioneer in the field of market-building, higher risk investing, and ideally demonstrate some commitment to development or social goals through previous professional or personal 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