EA and Office Manager

Marcilly Recruitment Ltd; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an experienced EA & Office Manager to support their Dubai office. Responsibilities include diary management, meeting coordination, travel arrangements, compliance auditing, and HR support. The role requires fluency in English and prior experience in financial services, ideally private equity, and in the UAE. Candidates must exhibit strong organizational skills and proficiency in MS Office applications. This is an office-based position with competitive compensation.

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus

Healthcare

25 days holiday

Pension

Annual flight and visa

Qualifications

• Strong background in administrative support for C-suite executives.
• Experience in fast-paced environments requiring flexibility.
• Knowledge of compliance and visa processes in the UAE.

Responsibilities

• Manage diary and schedule for COO and other executives.
• Book and prepare for meetings, including documentation.
• Handle travel arrangements, ensuring compliance with policies.
• Assist with finance management, including expense reporting.
• Support HR functions related to employee onboarding.

Skills

Fluent in English, perfect grammar, spoken and written

Prior experience as an EA or Office Manager in the UAE

Experience in financial services or private equity

Advanced MS Office skills – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Job description

EA & Office Manager Job Description

Role: EA & Office Manager

Days: Monday-Friday

Hours: 9.00am – 6.00pm

Location: DIFC, Dubai – office based five days a week

Salary: AED30K – AED35K DOE

Benefits: Discretionary Bonus & Healthcare; 25 days holiday; pension; annual flight and visa

Start: March 2026

Marcilly Recruitment’s client, an international private equity firm, is seeking an experienced EA & Office Manager to support their Dubai office of 30+ in DIFC. The core EA will involve supporting the COO primarily and then additional support for the CFO and General Counsel.

This is a meaty role which gives the successful EA & Office Manager the opportunity to support across operations, working with a HR Assistant to manage HR for the region, compliance and DIFC liaison, and any other office projects and operations support.

Our private equity client is ideally seeking someone who has worked in financial services before and has experience working in the UAE, ideally DIFC so they understand rules and regulations, visa processes etc.

EA & Office Manager Duties and Responsibilities

• Diary management, managing meeting requests with internal and external parties, ensuring correct line-ups. Schedule recurring administrative/governance meetings, ensuring quorum and readjusting as necessary. Proactively look for and resolve diary conflicts. Ensure smooth running of the day.
• Liaise with Funds and other external parties ahead of meetings to ensure smooth running.
• Book rooms and resources for any meetings.
• Prepare and circulate documentation for the meetings. Participate in meetings as required, minuting, agendas etc.
• Travel management, plan travel proactively ahead of regular travel. Prepare itineraries according to specific instructions given. Ensure travel is booked in accordance with the policy, ensuring value for money. Book flights and hotels via the travel agent, seek permissions, ensure flights are ticketed and diarised. Arrange ground transport as required. When preferred hotels are not available or not within budget, explore alternative options. Ensure correct travel documentation is held by the passenger and arrange visas as required. Apply correct cost coding to all aspects of the booking.
• Compliance: maintain compliance records. Assist in compliance audits.
• Document preparation, prepare agendas and minutes for the meetings as requested. Arrange document execution, manage subsequent circulation and filing. Print and bind presentations and materials to the standard required. Proactively prompt the team for document requirements ahead of meetings and travel.
• Undertake research and report findings as requested.
• Finance management: prepare expense reports for the team as requested using the dedicated software. Ensure correct coding is applied. Ensure prompt payment of invoices. Assist Accounts Payable in obtaining correctly addressed invoices. Provide credit card reconciliations on monthly basis.
• Assist the CFO and team in budget planning and with audit requests.
• Teamwork with the office, cover others during planned and unplanned absence. Work as part of the EA team internationally. Assist with team or office activities when needed.
• HR support for the office, managing employee onboarding and offboarding, employment visas, benefits etc
• Manage the DIFC portal, ensuring compliance and company records kept up to date.
• Office management: liaise with contractors for any maintenance, manage office supplier contracts, insurances etc.
• Manage the office receptionist.
• See to ad hoc requests and projects for the office.
• Provide out of hours support to team as required.

Skills and Competencies MS Office – Outlook, Word, Excel Previous experience in supporting C suite in operations and administration, preferably in private equity

EA & Office Manager Skills and Competencies:

• Fluent in the English Language, perfect grammar, spoken and written.
• Prior experience working as an EA or Office Manager in the UAE.
• Prior experience working in financial services, ideally private equity. The client will also consider EA & Office Managers coming from other professional services’ industries like law, Oil & Gas etc.
• Advanced MS Office – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment where flexibility may be required out of hours to meet deadlines.

Marcilly Recruitment is a boutique, London and Dubai based recruitment firm specialising in business and private administrative support in the UK, Europe and Middle East.

Unfortunately, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to each one individually. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within five working days then sadly your application has been unsuccessful.