Associate Director - Group Strategy

Emirates Islamic; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Islamic is seeking a high-caliber Associate Director/Director for Group Strategy to drive bank-wide strategy development, M&A execution, and corporate venture capital activities. You will lead multi-disciplinary projects, coordinate cross-functional teams across geographies, and shape key strategic initiatives aligned with the bank's priorities.

The role requires 4–7 years in strategic roles within financial services, strong analytical and communication skills, and an ownership mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or related; MBA a plus.
• 4-7 years experience at Associate Director/Director level in corporate strategy, strategy consulting, corporate development, or venture capital in financial services or related industries.
• Strong problem-solving, highly structured, analytical abilities.
• Excellent organization and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated, ownership mindset, ability to build relationships with peers and senior executives.
• Proficiency in MS Office; financial modelling is an asset.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English is a must.

Responsibilities

• Support bank strategy development across businesses, functions and geographies.
• Lead or support M&A transactions with governance of corporate investments.
• Work with Corporate Venture Capital to scout, evaluate, partner and invest in fintech/tech startups.
• Lead special group-wide initiatives including new business development and partnerships.
• Support Board and CEO office activities: events, presentations, relationship management, performance monitoring.

Skills

Problem-solving

Structured thinking

Analytical skills

Organization

Presentation skills

Interpersonal skills

Ownership

Relationship building

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Business

MBA (advantage)

Tools

MS Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Organization Unit Purpose

Group Strategy team functions as the central strategy development and M&A transactions management team for the Bank. The team works on addressing topics at the top of senior management and Board s agenda including but not limited to developing strategic plans for the Bank and subsidiaries, conducts corporate acquisitions & disposals, provides CEO office support and lead special group-wide projects.

This role will provide the opportunity to work on different areas and principal responsibilities would include:

• Bank strategy development: Support strategic business studies that are cross-Businesses, Functions and/or geographies in nature, derive actionable insights and make appropriate recommendations to the Bank's senior management. Support execution, coordination, tracking and evaluation according to the Bank's strategic planning framework.

• M&A Transactions: Lead or support execution of acquisitions and disposals (A&D) projects, support governance of the Bank's corporate investments and exploit synergies in accordance to the Bank's strategic priorities.

• Corporate Venture Capital (CVC): The Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) team overseas and manages Innovation Fund , the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Emirates NBD Group, established to enable the organization to invest in potential FinTech & Tech start-ups and companies with strategic relevance to the Group across its presence countries. The team consists of cross-functional expertise and works closely with the Group Digital Office, different Business Segments and Subsidiaries to scout, evaluate, partner and invest in companies.

• Special project: Lead different entity level strategic initiatives across all the Businesses and Functions of the Bank, with a focus on new business development, partnership development or setting up new area of expertise for the Group.

• Board and Chief Executive office support: Support key activities of executive office including but not limited to organizing annual / bi-annual events, preparing presentation materials for external and internal meetings, relationship management with key external and industry bodies and monitoring of business results.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelors degree with good knowledge in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or a related discipline; an MBA or Masters Degree would be a plus.

• 4-7 years work experience and level as Associate Director / Director in corporate strategy, strategy consulting, corporate development and/or venture capital experience in financial services or other relevant industries

• Excellent generalist problem-solving skills with strong conceptual, highly structured and analytical capabilities to deal with ambiguities

• Strong organization and management skills with the ability work on and manage multiple priorities / projects at one time

• Excellent written communication, oral presentation and interpersonal skills; Able to articulate conceptual ideas and strategic directives to a wide range of audience

• Committed, self-motivated and action-oriented personality with strong sense of ownership to drive tasks, projects / initiatives; Ability to build a relationships with peers and senior executives

• Well-versed in MS Office including Excel and PowerPoint; experience in financial modelling an asset

• Proficiency in written and spoken English a must.