Executive Director | Banking Transformation Consulting

Capco; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director to lead transformative projects across the Middle East's financial services sector. This role emphasizes entrepreneurial spirit and offers the autonomy to drive change while nurturing talent. With a focus on innovative solutions for major banking and insurance clients, you will leverage your extensive management consulting experience and strong analytical skills to deliver impactful results. Join a vibrant culture that values diversity and independent thinking, where your contributions will shape the future of the firm and its clients. If you are ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Pension scheme

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 15+ years of management consulting experience required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills essential for success.

Responsibilities

• Drive business and deliver projects for leading clients.
• Mentor and develop talent within the team.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving skills

Project management

Communication skills

Sales track record

Analytical skills

Agile methodologies

Prince 2

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Are you ambitious? Do you want the autonomy to build something? Feel you're being held back in your current role? If so, maybe Capco is the place for you!

At Capco, you are a business leader. You will be someone who drives change, brings innovative ideas and solutions to clients, and delivers large-scale projects. You will embody a true entrepreneurial mindset, building your network and winning new business for Capco. Alongside this, you are a mentor. You will support, nurture, and grow the talent in your team, encouraging them to be leaders of the future.

We are looking for exceptional talent with the following:

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to interact with colleagues at all levels in a peer-like way and achieve goals without direct control over resources.
• Responsible for driving the business and delivering projects.
• Working on client site to deliver change initiatives for leading clients across financial services including investment banking, wealth, and asset management.
• Strong emerging end-to-end generalist problem-solving skills, e.g. defining and deconstructing problems.
• Performance requirement gathering, functional requirement, user stories, and business process requirement technology architectures.
• Prioritizing issues, analysis, and team capacity.
• Structuring and building quantitative and qualitative/conceptual analyses.
• Ability to analyze operational and financial data.
• Manage projects and individuals' workstreams.
• Communicating project statuses to senior management.

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

• Minimum 15 years of experience as a management consultant.
• Proven professional services sales track record.
• Have market experience in Saudi Arabia/Middle East.
• Diverse problem-solving experience such as experience with a top management consulting firm or in other generalist problem-solving environments across the Capital Markets Sector.
• An outstanding ability to analyze problems, apply quantitative analytical approaches, communicate effectively and confidently (both oral and written), and work well in cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of Prince 2/Agile/Waterfall is preferred.
• Knowledge of agile ways of working would be an advantage.
• Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback from peers.
• Strong experience in using MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
• Excellent communication skills in English is essential. Arabic is a huge advantage.

WHY CAPCO

We are expanding our business rapidly across the Middle East. You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banking and insurance clients in the world, projects that will deliver significant transformation and change.

We offer:

You will join a company that supports and encourages an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and layers; we operate with little hierarchy because we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm. We warmly value diversity and inclusion and embrace our collective uniqueness; our culture is a strong, fresh, and invigorating difference from our competitors.

We offer highly competitive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a pension scheme, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.

Required Experience:

Director