Manager Deals Team

Visa; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Manager, where you will support the client Incentives process in the GCC region. This role involves overseeing deal workflows, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices. You will be at the forefront of driving efficiencies and educating team members while preparing management reports and presentations. If you possess strong leadership and analytical skills, along with proficiency in advanced Excel and Power BI, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. Embrace the chance to grow your career and contribute to transformative projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's or 2+ years with an Advanced degree.
• Strong leadership, business analysis, and communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee deal workflow management and maintain deal calendars.
• Collaborate with Finance to build financial models for client deals.
• Serve as the primary contact for data requests and stakeholder coordination.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Business Analysis

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Attention to Detail

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree (MBA, JD, MD)

Bachelor's in Accounting

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

The Manager role will be supporting the client Incentives process in GCC, working closely with Country Managers and Finance. This includes deal checking, help with modeling, best practice sharing, process automation, standardization, and deriving efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

• Deal workflow management: Oversee the GIG preparation and deal modeling process, including prioritizing deals at structuring stages and ensuring adherence to requirements during deal pipeline reviews. Maintain a deal calendar and conduct weekly sprints to monitor deal progress.

• Promote early alignment and cross-functional collaboration to prevent multiple revisions and provide a one-window service for final approvers.

• Ensure all parties adhere to checklists, deal structures align with client and Visa requirements, deal clauses are comprehensive, and the overall structure is efficient.

• Serve as the Center of Excellence for deal best practices and process flow, educating team members and driving efficiencies.

• Prepare regular management reports and presentation documents as required.

• Collaborate closely with Finance and Account Executives to build financial models for client incentive deals and facilitate internal approvals at all levels.

• Follow up with stakeholders such as Legal, BD, and Contract Management team until final signoff by client and Visa.

• Provide data for deal initiation sheet creation, update respective deal trackers, advise account executive, conduct first level review of deal model output with Account Owner, and support BDs in preparing client proposals and reviewing contracts.

• Serve as the primary contact for data requests and coordination with different stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualification:
5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 0 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualification:
8 years of work experience with a Bachelor's degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., MBA).
Bachelor's in accounting.
Chartered Accountant or CPA preferred but not required.
Attention to detail and highly organized.
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
Strong business analysis skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Proficient in advanced Excel skills, PowerPoint, and Power BI.

Additional Information:

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Remote Work:
No

Employment Type:
Full-time