63 Financial Services jobs in the United Arab Emirates

Job Description:

As a Financial Statement Audit Manager, you will be responsible for leading our Banking sector team. Your primary objective will be to provide independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information.

This includes evaluating compliance with regulations, assessing governance and risk management processes, and related controls. You will obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and issue an auditor's report that includes your opinion.

You will also motivate, develop, and inspire others to deliver quality results, coach and leverage team members' unique strengths, and manage performance to meet client expectations.

The role requires someone with experience in analyzing and identifying linkages and interactions between system components, taking ownership of projects, and partnering with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of professionals to deliver high-quality audit services
• Evaluate financial statements and internal controls to provide reasonable assurance
• Assess governance and risk management processes to identify areas for improvement
• Develop and implement effective solutions to address identified issues
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years' experience in Big4
• Experience in Banking
• Knowledge of IFRS 9 & 13
• Bachelor's degree
• Professional qualification

Benefits:

Our company offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including opportunities for career growth and professional development. We value diversity and inclusion in the workplace and strive to create a culture that is respectful and inclusive of all employees.

Job Opportunity

As a self-employed Financial Services Associate, you will collaborate with us to deliver training across various programs and locations.

We are seeking an experienced trainer to design and deliver training across a number of relevant programmes & academies within banks, other financial institutions, regulators and multi-lateral organisations.

• You will present complex topics in Arabic to diverse audiences
• Review existing course material and prepare new training material
• Assist in the preparation of new training material
• Have a full understanding of the objectives of the course, the participants and training material

The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive financial market experience within a leading bank, insurance company, asset manager or other relevant financial institution
• Excellent presentation and listening skills
• Effective communication skills with a passion for education
• Experience of training in a professional environment
• A passion for delivering learning utilizing a range of methods to calmly and coherently explain complicated concepts in an entertaining and engaging way
• High levels of professionalism and cultural awareness appropriate to our industry

This is a self-employed opportunity, allowing you to work independently and set your own schedule. You will also have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and develop your skills as a trainer.

Location: Dubai, UAE

Are you looking for a challenging career move that will propel you to the forefront of financial services?
Our global organization is seeking an experienced sales professional to join our team as a Client Acquisition Specialist.

By joining us, you will become part of a dynamic organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by providing innovative financial solutions that drive growth and economic progress.

• Work closely with senior management and branch banking staff to identify and acquire high-net-worth clients, upgrade existing relationships, and expand the client base.
• Develop and execute strategic plans to solicit new-to-bank clients through internal and external channels.
• Assist clients in opening accounts in onshore or offshore locations, tailoring solutions to meet their individual needs.
• Actively promote referrals from existing clients to generate a pipeline of prospects.
• Upsize current funding and deepen relationships to convert leads into funded accounts.
• Engage with high payroll clients to convert them into funded accounts.
• Optimize opportunities in listed payroll companies.
• Complete updates of 'know your client' details for originated accounts.
• Attract an investment client base through relationship management, responding to internal referrals and pro-active business development.
• Spearhead micro-marketing events focused on new-to-bank acquisition.
• Collaborate with product teams to identify initiatives and products that will help acquire new customers.
• Identify and pursue new clients aligned with our value proposition.
• Think critically and plan strategically to differentiate ourselves from competitors.
• Stay connected with influencers, industry associations, thought leaders, and senior business contacts to expand industry knowledge and deepen our relationships.
• Refer Citigold clients to Investment Professionals to meet their identified investment and insurance financial needs.
• Stay up-to-date on current economic environments and capital markets to have meaningful discussions with new-to-bank prospects.
• Deliver on scorecard parameters for improving NTB acquisition, client penetration, qualified client manager base, profiling, and compliance standards.

• Demonstrate foundational knowledge of commercial banking, including basic credit skills and early warning detection.
• Possess passion for creating new business opportunities with existing clients and demonstrate innovative approaches to meeting clients' needs.
• Ability to embrace new technology and understand its role in delivering exceptional customer experiences.

• 3-5 years of experience in direct sales within the financial services industry.
• Preferably, prior experience acquiring high-net-worth clients or working with investment products like Mutual Funds, Insurance, equity, or fixed-income (bonds).
• Other industry-relevant sales experience can be considered.

Job Family Group: Consumer Sales

Job Family: Branch Sales

Time Type: Full time

Job Description:

As a key member of our Financial Services team in Abu Dhabi, you will be responsible for leading and managing teams to deliver high-quality audit services to clients.

The role requires an experienced assurance professional with a strong understanding of the banking sector, IFRS 9 & 13, and a proven track record of delivering large-scale audits.

• Lead and manage teams to deliver high-quality audit services
• Develop and implement audit strategies and plans
• Conduct risk assessments and identify areas for improvement
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in a Big4 firm, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Strong knowledge of IFRS 9 & 13 and auditing standards
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Benefits:

You must have a Bachelor's degree and a professional qualification, such as a CPA or CMA. Additionally, you should be proficient in Arabic and English languages.

We are seeking a skilled Mortgage Specialist to join our team. This is a full-time remote opportunity for a professional who will be responsible for marketing mortgage products, managing mortgage lending processes, assisting clients with mortgage applications, and providing exceptional customer service.

Job Location: Dubai, UAE

Company: Multinational PR & Advertising Agency.

Job Summary: Identify and build opportunities from Organization’s existing strong client portfolio and to source and maximize the growing Financial Communications opportunities across the region.

Job Requirements:

1. 8+ years’ experience in the field of public relations and communications within financial communications.
2. Proven track record in managing and measuring communication effectiveness.
3. Experience in strategic communications, managing finances, including budget development, management, resourcing, and forecasting.
4. Native-level written and spoken English, enabling strong content development skills, including experience drafting op-eds and quotes/statements for media. Arabic writing would be a bonus.
5. Lead and/or contribute to pitches and new business efforts focused on FinComm opportunities or integrated assignments.
6. Track record developing and executing successful communications strategies and programmes.
7. Possess strong leadership qualities and have in-depth experience effectively managing a group and helping employees grow.
8. Excellent project management skills including delegation of tasks.
9. Excellent understanding of social media, and ability to collaborate and communicate with multiple internal stakeholders, including strategic planning and creative.
10. Strong ability to lead and convert new business opportunities.
11. Experience managing finances, including budget development, management, resourcing, and forecasting.
12. Team player who is focused on developing a collaborative work ethic within account teams and is committed to ensuring an excellent work environment.
13. Excellent writing skills—both technical and creative/promotional proficiency.
14. Strong communications and interpersonal skills.

If you know of anyone who has these qualifications and is looking for a challenging career, please email:

Jeanette Jarjoura – Executive Search and Leadership Consultant

Your Growth

You will be based in one of our Middle East offices driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we will provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you will receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your Impact

You will help financial institution clients’ top management and field member build capabilities in delivery and to execute initiatives, both during an active project and continuing after our consultants have shared their recommendations.

You will be involved from strategy through execution as the manager of strategy execution and impact creation.

You will have the opportunity to manage projects and progress with minimal supervision, including tracking metrics, handling complex analyses, and preparing communications to report back to client and internal leadership.

You will develop trust-based relationships with clients and delivering results as a specialist of strategy execution and impact creation.

You will receive training on how to better structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them, synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative method and work effectively with diverse teams to come up with the best solution and move people and organizations to act.

You will establish trust-based relationships with clients to better-serve their organizations, communicate effectively with all audiences including senior leaders and develop your leadership style, leveraging your own passions, strengths and personal values. McKinsey believes in strengths-based development and coaching, and you will receive frequent mentoring from colleagues. This will include a senior colleague from your office or practice who will help you grow and achieve your career goals.

Your qualifications and skills

• Undergraduate or master’s degree in commerce, finance, business studies, operations, economics or a related field, with an outstanding academic record
• 6+ years of project delivery in consulting for financial industries; international experience is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Financial Services in at least one of the following areas: banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, public finance
• Strong understanding of both business and technical aspects of technology/digital transformations within financial services, enabling the creation of value-driven technology strategies
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following key service offerings is a plus: organizational development (including org. design/set up, talent management, etc.), transformational delivery (implementing large transformational programs), and productivity and performance improvement
• Superior analytical problem solving and relationship building skills, including a demonstrated high level of client service commitment
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organisation
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English and Arabic
• Willingness to travel

Your Growth

You will be based in one of our Middle East offices driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients.

You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible.

Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients.

Every day, you will receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your Impact

You will join a client service team to help clients build capabilities in delivery and execution, both during an active project and continuing after our consultants have shared their recommendations.

We will expect you to go the extra mile, delivering solutions that solve immediate problems and drive long-term change. And we will rely on your judgment and integrity to ensure our recommendations are effective and long-lasting.

As you collaborate directly with clients, you will help them solve problems, refine strategies, and implement transformations.

By equipping them with the tools and knowledge to continue innovating and improving after we’ve left, you will ensure the impact of our work endures. In doing so, you will uphold McKinsey’s commitment to making a meaningful difference in the industries and communities we serve.

You will receive training on how to better structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them as well as synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

You will work effectively with diverse teams to come up with the best solution and move people and organizations to act.

You will establish trust-based relationships with clients to better serve their organizations, communicate effectively with all audiences including senior leaders and develop your leadership style, leveraging your own passions, strengths and personal values.

Your qualifications and skills

• Undergraduate in commerce, finance, business studies, operations, economics or a related field, with an outstanding academic record
• 2+ years of project delivery in consulting; preferably on the delivery of large-scale projects in financial industries; international experience is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Financial Services in at least one of the following areas: banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, public finance
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following key service offerings is a plus: organizational development (including org. design/set up, talent management, etc.), transformational delivery (implementing large transformational programs), and productivity and performance improvement
• Superior analytical problem solving and relationship building skills, including a demonstrated high level of client service commitment
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organisation
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English and Arabic
• Willingness to travel

Your Growth

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your Impact

Your qualifications and skills

• Undergraduate in commerce, finance, business studies, operations, economics or a related field, with an outstanding academic record
• 2+ years of project delivery in consulting; preferably on the delivery of large-scale projects in financial industries; international experience is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in Financial Services in at least one of the following areas: banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, public finance
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following key service offerings is a plus: organizational development (including org. design/set up, talent management, etc.), transformational delivery (implementing large transformational programs), and productivity and performance improvement
• Superior analytical problem solving and relationship building skills, including a demonstrated high level of client service commitment
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organisation
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English and Arabic
• Willingness to travel