Loan Administration Team Leader, Investment Operations

The Investment Operations team is made up of two groups:

• Data Management - responsible for ensuring investment related data is appropriate, accurate and consistent. Responsible for implementation and development of the Data Governance Policy.
• Portfolio Administration - responsible for ensuring all transactions are processed in a timely manner and recorded accurately. Responsible for ensuring BII's portfolio of investments is monitored for lifecycle events and administered effectively and efficiently.
This role will sit within the Portfolio Administration team and focus on debt and trade and supply chain finance investments. The Loan Administration Team Leader will organise the day-to-day work to ensure that all loan and trade and supply chain finance transactions are processed in an accurate and timely manner, providing expertise and guidance on loan transactions and documentation. They will lead on process improvements to ensure the team's work is delivered in a controlled and efficient manner, deputising for the Head of Portfolio Administration on change projects focused on BII's debt portfolio. Responsibilities Provide a bullet point list of the responsibilities and duties of this job.
• Team leader for Loan Administration
• Manage priorities and workloads for themselves and other team members, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and to a high quality
• Work with third party loan administrators in setting rates, interest dates, interest payments and accurals
• Collaborate with BII's legal and investment teams on all operational aspects of debt documentation
• Manage the investment closing process for all debt investments
• Monitor receipt of covenant reporting information
• Provide reporting on BII's debt portfolio
• Be an advisor to the wider company on the debt portfolio
• Identify and implement improvements to existing processes, ensuring process documentation is thorough and complete
  
  Background, skills, aptitude
• Experience as a team leader within a loan administration function at a financial institution
• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise of debt products
• In-depth technical knowledge and expertise on loan administration processes and loan agreements
• In-depth understanding of loan administration systems, ideally eFront and Debt Domain
• Ability to multi-task and balance team activities without losing sight of deadlines, processing transactions in an accurate and timely manner
• Ability to proactively consult with a wide range of stakeholders and work with them to find solutions that satisfy a number of issues
• Ability to develop and implement solutions to improve processes and systems across the team
• Expert ability to navigate excel to identify and gather relevant information and able to present data in understandable ways for senior audiences
• Experience working with emerging markets, particularly India, would be advantageous
• 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 the UK's development finance institution, owned by the UK Government. We invest with the aim of solving the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation.
• We have 75 years of experience successfully supporting the sustainable, long-term growth of businesses in Africa and Asia, and have recently expanded to invest in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean.
• We invest to achieve impact and a financial return which is then reinvested for more impact. Over the past five years, we have committed £7 billion of new investments, with our net assets growing in value to approximately £8.1 billion. We are now invested in 1,400 businesses which directly employ over 950,000 workers and support many more. Over the next five years, we plan to grow further, and aim to commit around £9 billion of new investments over the period.
• Our current five-year strategy responds to the opportunities and challenges facing developing and emerging economies. To ensure our capital is used in the best way possible to meet these opportunities and challenges, it sets out three clear strategic objectives - to invest in productive, sustainable and inclusive development. These objectives mean an increased focus on climate finance, including investing in green infrastructure; on financing digital transformation; and on driving inclusive outcomes, including through gender and diversity finance.
• We changed our name to British International Investment in 2022, to more accurately reflect our central role in the UK Government's international financing offer.
• In the last few years, we have expanded our presence in Africa and Asia by opening new offices in Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ghana and Singapore; with further expansion planned.
• 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.
• Deliver impact. We are a team of over 600 and place immense value on diversity within our organisation.
• Read more about us and the strategy at bii.co.uk
  
  Salary: Competitive