About BII - 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 in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors that need our capital the most.
We currently partner with almost 1,500 businesses in emerging economies, and we have total assets of £8.1 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.
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 650 and place immense value on diversity within our organisation.
Read more about us at www.bii.co.uk

Location: London, with a 3-month international secondment

Start date: 12th August 2024

The programme

During your time on the Investment and Impact Graduate Analyst programme, you will work across two teams: Impact and Investment. The two-year programme is preceded by an eight-week training period to help you perform to the best of your abilities. Your rotations will include 12 months within the Impact group and 12 months within an Investment team, with a three-month international secondment. During your international secondment, you will have the opportunity to work in one of our regional offices and will be required to travel accordingly. After successful completion of the programme, you will have gained unique exposure to our organisation and have the potential to be considered for a position within the Impact group or an Investment team.

The Impact team 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 an ITS team (Industries, Technology & Services). 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.

What you’ll be doing

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.

What we’re looking for

People that can demonstrate a strong interest in, and passion for, impact investing, emerging markets, and development finance.
Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Aptitude for analytical thinking and problem solving.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
Intellectually curious and interested in the future of development finance
You should have an awareness and appreciation for our objectives, five-year strategy, and dual mandate.

Eligibility Criteria

A minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree in any subject area from a UK university.
The permanent right to work in the UK.
Graduated from your undergraduate within the last 12 months.

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.

Benefits

The starting salary for the programme is £45,000 (with an increment after completion of the first rotation)
38 days annual leave, including bank holidays
Mental wellbeing support, including talking therapies
Onsite GP
Private medical insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Interest free season ticket loan
Pension scheme
Access to Employee Assistance Programme – providing you with access to 24-hour confidential telephone counselling and a comprehensive online source of information on a range of issues, including Mental Health
Learning and development opportunities
Buddy/mentor scheme

Recruitment process & timelines

1. Complete your application form. Includes basic questions, i.e., personal details, education history, etc.

Applications open on 25th September 2023 and will close on 3rd November 2023. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure that you don’t miss out on being considered for the programme.

2. Online assessment & video interview. The assessment will follow a situational judgement format and assess financial literacy. The video interview will assess your motivations for applying to BII and our Graduate programme.

We will be reviewing online assessments and video interview responses throughout the above period, and you will be notified if you've been successful and secured a place at one of the assessment centres early November.

3. In-person Assessment Centre. We will be running two assessment centres as the final stage of the process, held at our offices in Victoria, London. The day will include three exercises: group exercise, case study and interview (not necessarily in this order). The day is designed to assess both your technical skills/knowledge, as well as your motivations for applying to BII.

The assessment centres will be a full day, taking place on 17th and 24th November in our London office. Post assessment centre offers will be made early December.

4. Offer. Following both assessment centres, you will be notified by early December if you have been successful in securing a position on the graduate programme.

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.

Investment & Impact Graduate Analyst Programme