83 Associate Consultant jobs in the United Arab Emirates

We are looking for a dynamic individual to be part of a team conducting due diligence and corporate intelligence in the Middle East and North Africa. The successful candidate will be a critical thinker with good communication skills, with an interest in business transactions and operations.

• English and Arabic or Persian language research in support of a range of business intelligence and compliance projects including due diligence, background checks and problem-solving litigation support.
• Undertaking case management of projects as required.
• Ensuring the delivery of projects on budget, scope and deadline.
• Preparing quality reports to clients.
• Supporting the team on business development initiatives such as attending conferences, client meetings and briefings.
• Previous professional experience, ideally within the due diligence and corporate Intelligence industry on the Middle East, with a good level of experience working as a business analyst or researcher in a client-facing role.
• Experience of conducting English and Arabic or Persian language research, managing projects, and presenting findings to clients.
• An understanding of the region’s political and commercial environment, and demonstrated
• Demonstrated commitment to business intelligence and compliance, with strong knowledge of research techniques, databases, networks, online registers and archives, and research in the general internet.
• Experience of interacting with and managing a network of human sources.

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant discipline.
Total professional fluency in Arabic.
Excellent verbal and written English.
Excellent word processing and general computing skills.
Strong presentation skills.
Ability to work in a team and independently

Our team continuously reviews all applications, and we are committed to a thorough and fair evaluation process. We expect to complete the initial review within the next two weeks. Should your qualifications meet our requirements for an open vacancy, we will contact you to discuss the next steps. If you do not hear from us by the end of the two weeks, this means your application was not selected.

26 Mar, 2024

This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with professionals around the GCC. You can do that by collaborating with the most prestigious training and consulting firm in the region, the proud Meirc Training and Consulting.

We are looking to expand our offerings by expanding our highly professional freelance team in the following areas:

• Project Management
• Contract Management
• Quality Management
• Procurement and Supply Chain Management

The incumbents should meet the following criteria:

• A master's degree (or higher) from a reputable university in the relevant field(s)
• Recognized certification in the area of expertise
• A hard-core experience of over 10 years in one or more of the above-mentioned areas
• A proven track record of delivering training courses in these topics in English and Arabic
• Ability to travel within the GCC
• A charismatic professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

If you wish to apply for this opportunity, please send your CV to the following email address:

• 1st Floor, Building 13, Bay Square, Business Bay

As part of a dynamic and motivated consulting team, you will support a variety of client projects across sectors. You will contribute to delivering high-impact solutions in areas such as business strategy, operational efficiency, digital transformation, and project delivery. This role is designed for candidates with 1 to 3 years of relevant experience who are eager to grow in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Participate in managing projects with internal stakeholders and third parties
2. Assist in defining and implementing business strategies, including market analysis, financial modeling, digital roadmaps, and operational planning
3. Conduct research, data collection, and benchmarking to inform business recommendations
4. Support process improvement initiatives through mapping, reengineering, and performance management
5. Prepare high-quality client deliverables such as presentations, reports, and dashboards
6. Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams and contribute to knowledge sharing

Preferred Experience in Sustainability (ESG)

While not mandatory, experience or interest in sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) topics is considered a strong asset. Candidates with this background may contribute to projects involving :

• Developing analytics and technology solutions to detect, monitor, and predict ESG-related risks
• Supporting clients in aligning with emerging ESG reporting standards (e.g., GRI, SASB, TCFD, CSRD)
• Assisting in defining ESG strategies and sustainability goals aligned with corporate objectives
• Designing dashboards and controls to track ESG performance
• Conducting ESG risk assessments and stakeholder engagement
• Monitoring ESG regulatory trends and industry best practices
• Contributing to sustainability reporting and policy documentation

Qualifications

• Strong academic background (e.g., Business, Mathematics, Economics) from top-tier university.
• 1-3 years of experience, preferably in consulting.
• Ability to adapt quickly to challenging and frequently changing environments, while working on challenging topics across multiple business areas under tight deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task competing priorities while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Proven experience working in a team environment.
• Business Process Management or Reengineering experience.
• Interest or prior involvement in ESG / sustainability topics is a plus.
• Business proficiency in Arabic and English is a must.

Additional information

Joining Sia means integrating into a globally recognized firm that fosters personal growth through our unique Sia Village concept, which promotes a community-driven culture reinforced by values of Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Teamwork, Care & Support, and Employee Wellbeing, ensuring a fulfilling career path.

What a career at Sia offers you?

• Competitive compensation: a competitive salary and benefits package, benchmarked against the market to ensure the most competitive offers.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: Join us on an entrepreneurial journey that fosters innovation and empowers you to drive your own success. Your ideas shape the future.
• Tailored career advocacy program: Receive dedicated support to help you achieve your professional aspirations. Mentors provide actionable feedback for continuous progress.
• Continuous growth: Engage with ongoing learning opportunities, especially in emerging topics, to stay ahead in your field.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Sia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where employees and partners are valued and thrive. We are committed to recruiting and developing a diverse workforce and investing in their growth through unique professional and cultural opportunities. Our focus on inclusion promotes collaboration, trust, and lasting impact.

We are guided by understanding and pride ourselves on providing meaningful solutions to our clients' challenges. We bring our whole selves to work, listening, observing, understanding, and being understood.

To learn more about our mission, values, and sectors, please visit our website.

Our Associate Consultants play pivotal roles in supporting project delivery, service execution, and targeted initiatives within our Middle East team. They focus on specific areas to ensure diligent monitoring and successful project outcomes.

Operating across sectors such as transport, energy, banking & insurance, and the public sector, the Middle East team addresses challenges in innovation and business transformation. Guided by experienced consultants, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team engaged in various missions:

1. Assisting consultants and managers in delivering projects for clients, mainly at Sias offices and occasionally at client sites.
2. Supporting commercial activities: drafting business proposals, conducting market research, and identifying potential commercial opportunities.
3. Participating in training sessions.
4. Collaborating with stakeholders to capture process requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
5. Analyzing activities, understanding sessions, and mapping As-Is processes.
6. Designing workflows, capturing process narratives, RACI matrices, inputs, outputs, and application systems.
7. Conducting validation and knowledge transfer sessions.

In a diverse and motivated team, you will work on projects covering topics such as:

• Project management: managing business projects with internal and external stakeholders.
• Business strategy: defining and implementing business plans, digital strategies, market studies, financial modeling, benchmarks, and data analysis.
• Business improvement: studying, mapping, and reengineering business processes, performance management, and benchmarking.

Qualifications:

• Strong academic background (e.g., Business, Mathematics, Economics) from a top-tier university.
• At least 1 year of experience, preferably in consulting.
• Ability to adapt quickly to challenging and changing environments across multiple business areas under tight deadlines.
• Multitasking skills with high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Leadership experience demonstrated.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Knowledge of Business Process Management or Reengineering.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with tools like Visio and ARIS is a plus.
• Proficiency in English and Arabic (reading, writing, typing) is mandatory.

Additional Information:

Joining Sia offers integration into a globally recognized firm that promotes personal growth through our Sia Village concept, fostering a community-driven culture rooted in values of Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Teamwork, Care & Support, and Employee Wellbeing, ensuring a fulfilling career.

What a career at Sia offers:

• Competitive compensation: a market-competitive salary and benefits package.
• Entrepreneurial environment: fostering innovation and empowering your success.
• Tailored career development: mentorship and support to achieve your professional goals.
• Continuous learning: opportunities for growth in emerging topics and skill development.

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Sia is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where employees and partners thrive and feel a sense of belonging. We are committed to recruiting and developing diverse talent and investing in their growth through unique professional and cultural opportunities. Our inclusive approach promotes collaboration, trust, and lasting impact.

Guided by understanding, we aim to provide meaningful solutions to our clients' challenges. We bring our whole selves to work, listening, observing, understanding, and being understood.

To learn more about our mission, values, and sectors, please visit our website.

Sia is an equal opportunity employer, with employment based on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Your primary role will be to provide support in our client and engagement acceptance process, including performing conflict reviews, customer due diligence to ensure we have understood who Teneo will be providing services to from a risk and reputation standpoint, as well as compliance with our Anti-Money Laundering requirements for the regulated parts of Teneo s business.

We will accept candidates with or without directly applicable experience and full training will be provided as required.

Location: The client and engagement acceptance team is primarily based in Cardiff. As the team also supports the business globally, the role will be required to work hours of 12:00 to 20:30 (GMT) including some England & Wales public or bank holidays where those days can be taken as additional annual leave (on other dates).

The Role

Your primary role will be to provide support in our client and engagement acceptance process, including performing conflict reviews, customer due diligence to ensure we have understood who Teneo will be providing services to from a risk and reputation standpoint, as well as compliance with our Anti-Money Laundering requirements for the regulated parts of Teneo s business.

We will accept candidates with or without directly applicable experience and full training will be provided as required.

Location: The client and engagement acceptance team is primarily based in Cardiff. As the team also supports the business globally, the role will be required to work hours of 12:00 to 20:30 (GMT) including some England & Wales public or bank holidays where those days can be taken as additional annual leave (on other dates).

Teneo is a global business drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations. The breadth of our offering and our ability to provide bespoke and seamless advisory services, on either a standalone or integrated basis, makes us truly unique.

• Performing customer due diligence research utilising online tools, software and sanctions checking solutions
• Reviewing new client and engagement requests, screening the related parties for sanctions, enforcements or other adverse matters prior to issuing conflict check, Anti-Money Laundering and Risk Assessment responses
• Supporting engagement teams with client and engagement acceptance
• Supporting the Quality and Risk Management team on other business critical projects and training
• Working effectively in a diverse team within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

• Ability to manage and take responsibility for your work
• Driving forward tasks on a number of projects in parallel
• Strong organisational and communication skills
• Experience of Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Excel preferable

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, training in the tools and processes to the analyst role, with continuous improvement and development achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development.

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including:

• Market-leading salary
• 28 days annual leave, with an option to purchase additional days
• An additional Diversity, Equality & Inclusion day s leave
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Pension Plan (with additional employee contribution options)
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (dependent on length of service), with shared parental leave options
• Additional benefits and options including:
  • Private medical insurance
  • Income protection
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work scheme
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

Company Industry

• Consulting
• Management Consulting
• Advisory Services

Department / Functional Area

• IT Software

Keywords

• Associate Consultant

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We are looking for a dynamic individual to be part of a team conducting due diligence and corporate intelligence in the Middle East and North Africa. The successful candidate will be a critical thinker with good communication skills, with an interest in business transactions and operations.

• English and Arabic or Persian language research in support of a range of business intelligence and compliance projects including due diligence, background checks and problem-solving litigation support.
• Undertaking case management of projects as required.
• Ensuring the delivery of projects on budget, scope and deadline.
• Preparing quality reports to clients.
• Supporting the team on business development initiatives such as attending conferences, client meetings and briefings.
• Previous professional experience, ideally within the due diligence and corporate Intelligence industry on the Middle East, with a good level of experience working as a business analyst or researcher in a client-facing role.
• Experience of conducting English and Arabic or Persian language research, managing projects, and presenting findings to clients.
• An understanding of the region's political and commercial environment, and demonstrated
• Demonstrated commitment to business intelligence and compliance, with strong knowledge of research techniques, databases, networks, online registers and archives, and research in the general internet.
• Experience of interacting with and managing a network of human sources.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant discipline.
Total professional fluency in Arabic.
Excellent verbal and written English.
Excellent word processing and general computing skills.
Strong presentation skills.
Ability to work in a team and independently

About us:

Dokainish & Company is a global organization that has been providing world class professional consultancy services since 2011. We have recently launched our MENA operations headquartered in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. This expansion supports our strategy to serve government and private sector clients in capital projects across construction infrastructure energy and commercial developments.

We are currently seeking an Associate Consultant to join our growing team in the MENA region supporting the successful delivery of projects across various sectors and be a key member of our highperforming diverse and innovative consulting team based in Abu Dhabi.

The Opportunity:

The Associate Consultant will be responsible for managing projects from initiation through completion ensuring that projects are delivered on time within scope and within budget. This individual will play a key role in coordinating with internal teams contractors and clients and will be instrumental in ensuring the successful delivery of largescale projects across construction infrastructure energy and commercial developments.

This is a fulltime position based in Abu Dhabi UAE. Candidates must have full professional proficiency of Arabic and English language.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the planning and delivery of client engagements projects ensuring alignment with client expectations and industry best practices.

• Generate client pitch presentations scope of works and bid proposals

• Complete vendor registrations and ensure full compliance with client requirements

• Develop and manage project plans client meetings schedules and budgets ensuring timely completion within scope and budget constraints.

• Coordinate with internal teams clients contractors and stakeholders to ensure effective communication and project alignment.

• Identify assess and manage project risks ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are in place.

• Ensure compliance with local regulations and contractual obligations across all stages of the project lifecycle.

• Lead the preparation and presentation of project status reports to senior management and clients highlighting key milestones risks and performance metrics.

• Administer project change control processes ensuring any changes to scope schedule or budget are properly documented and approved.

• Monitor and control project performance by tracking progress identifying variances and implementing corrective actions as needed.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement incorporating lessons learned from previous projects into future planning and .

Role Requirements:

• 2 years of experience in project management within capital projects construction infrastructure or energy sectors.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Project Management or a related field. PMP certification is preferred.

• Full professional proficiency in English and Arabic.

• Experience in managing projects from inception to completion.

• Strong leadership and decisionmaking skills with the ability to manage teams and stakeholders.

• Proficiency in project management tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a clientfacing role.

• Experience in the MENA region is highly desirable.

• Flexibility to work in an office environment and to travel as required to client sites across the MENA region.

• Ability to work independently in a fastpaced dynamic environment with minimal supervision.

• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current on industry best practices and methodologies.

• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours as required.

• This role is based in Abu Dhabi UAE candidates must be able to commute or willing to relocate.

Note: This role description is intended to provide a general overview of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties skills or qualifications required.

If you believe your skillset drive qualifications and experience is a match we welcome your application and cant wait to hear from you.

We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Dokainish & Company in the UAE. Please note only those candidates considered for an initial interview will be contacted.

Required Experience:

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We are looking for a dynamic individual to be part of a team conducting due diligence and corporate intelligence in the Middle East and North Africa. The successful candidate will be a critical thinker with good communication skills, with an interest in business transactions and operations.

• English and Arabic or Persian language research in support of a range of business intelligence and compliance projects including due diligence, background checks and problem-solving litigation support.
• Undertaking case management of projects as required.
• Ensuring the delivery of projects on budget, scope and deadline.
• Preparing quality reports to clients.
• Supporting the team on business development initiatives such as attending conferences, client meetings and briefings.
• Previous professional experience, ideally within the due diligence and corporate Intelligence industry on the Middle East, with a good level of experience working as a business analyst or researcher in a client-facing role.
• Experience of conducting English and Arabic or Persian language research, managing projects, and presenting findings to clients.
• An understanding of the region’s political and commercial environment, and demonstrated
• Demonstrated commitment to business intelligence and compliance, with strong knowledge of research techniques, databases, networks, online registers and archives, and research in the general internet.
• Experience of interacting with and managing a network of human sources.

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in relevant discipline.
Total professional fluency in Arabic.
Excellent verbal and written English.
Excellent word processing and general computing skills.
Strong presentation skills.
Ability to work in a team and independently

Our team continuously reviews all applications, and we are committed to a thorough and fair evaluation process. We expect to complete the initial review within the next two weeks. Should your qualifications meet our requirements for an open vacancy, we will contact you to discuss the next steps. If you do not hear from us by the end of the two weeks, this means your application was not selected.

26 Mar, 2024

This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with professionals around the GCC. You can do that by collaborating with the most prestigious training and consulting firm in the region, the proud Meirc Training and Consulting.

We are looking to expand our offerings by expanding our highly professional freelance team in the following areas:

• Project Management
• Contract Management
• Quality Management
• Procurement and Supply Chain Management

The incumbents should meet the following criteria:

• A master's degree (or higher) from a reputable university in the relevant field(s)
• Recognized certification in the area of expertise
• A hard-core experience of over 10 years in one or more of the above-mentioned areas
• A proven track record of delivering training courses in these topics in English and Arabic
• Ability to travel within the GCC
• A charismatic professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

If you wish to apply for this opportunity, please send your CV to the following email address:

• 1st Floor, Building 13, Bay Square, Business Bay