Manager – Financial Analysis & Valuation – Banking/Financial Services Magen David Search Partners

The Corporate Institute; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

The Corporate Institute is seeking a Manager – Financial Analysis & Valuation (CFA) to act as the group’s technical custodian of financial models, valuation opinions and investor analytics in the UAE. The role supports the IPO and fundraising milestones with rigorous, auditable numbers.

The successful candidate will lead financial modelling, valuation and governance standards, manage a small team of analysts, and collaborate with corporate finance and capital markets to drive due diligence and

Qualifications

• Must hold CFA charter or be on track to complete it.
• Strong financial modelling and valuation experience.
• Experience in investment banking, valuation advisory or private equity.
• Exposure to infrastructure or real estate assets is advantageous.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and version-control multi-entity financial models with audit trails.
• Prepare and defend Group Enterprise Valuation and programme valuations.
• Support due diligence, investor materials and lender presentations.
• Ensure governance, master assumptions and IFRS-aligned reporting.

Skills

CFA Charterholder

Financial modelling

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Fluent English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Mathematics

Professional accounting qualification (CA/ACCA/CPA) or Master’s degree (advantage)

Tools

Excel

VBA

Power BI

Power Query

Job description

Manager – Financial Analysis & Valuation

(CFA Charterholder)

1. Position Details:

Position Title: Manager – Financial Analysis & Valuation (CFA)

Reference Number: RHL/HR/JD/2026/003

Function: Group Finance – Corporate Finance & Capital Markets

Reports To: Vice President – Finance (IPO & Fund Raising)

Direct Reports: Financial Analysts (1 – 2)

Location: United Arab Emirates

Band / Grade: Middle Management – Manager

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent

2. Purpose of the Role:

The Manager – Financial Analysis & Valuation is the Group’s technical custodian of financial models, valuation opinions and investor analytics. The role produces and defends the quantitative substance behind a gross programme portfolio of approximately USD 50.7 billion and a base sum-of-the-parts Group Enterprise Valuation of USD 16.5 billion, supporting the Q4 2027 IPO, the USD 5 billion Green Wakala Sukuk programme and all project-level fund raising. The postholder is expected to hold the CFA charter and to apply institutional-standard rigour, documentation and auditability to every number that leaves the Group.

3. Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

A. Financial Modelling:

• Build, maintain and version-control the Group and programme-level financial models, including the ten-year ESMH operating model and the models supporting the Florida, Portugal (Almeida and Celorico da Beira), Botswana, Paraguay and Thailand programmes.
• Apply and maintain best-practice model architecture: clear input / calculation / output separation, no hard-coding in formulas, full audit trail, error-check panels, and documented assumption sources.
• Model the Group’s Ecosystem Flywheel revenue architecture – master-developer hub operations, 40% equity participation in resident industries, and carbon credit monetisation – through to consolidated revenue, EBITDA, cash flow and returns.
• Construct project finance and debt structuring modules: drawdown and repayment schedules, sukuk profit rate profiles, DSCR and LLCR covenant testing, and funding waterfall logic.
• Run scenario, sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis on occupancy pace, capex escalation, carbon price, discount rate, FX and offtake assumptions; present tornado and break-even outputs.

B. Valuation and Analysis:

• Prepare and update the Group Enterprise Valuation (RHL/GEV/2026/001) and the underlying programme valuation reports, applying the Group’s blended methodology of sum-of-the-parts, discounted cash flow and IPO-implied approaches with documented weightings.
• Derive and evidence discount rates (WACC, cost of equity, country risk premia), terminal value assumptions and long-term growth rates from primary market data.
• Maintain comparable company and precedent transaction benchmarking sets across industrial real estate, free zone operators, data centres, aviation infrastructure and carbon markets.
• Ensure internal consistency and reconciliation between valuation reports, feasibility studies, detailed project reports, information memoranda and board papers – no unreconciled variance between documents.
• Conduct independent review of third-party and counterparty financial submissions, including joint venture partner valuations and tenant creditworthiness assessments.

C. Transaction and Investor Support:

• Prepare the quantitative sections of information memoranda, investor presentations, teasers, rating agency packs and lender credit papers.
• Support due diligence by responding to investor, lender, auditor and model-auditor queries with clear, referenced workings.
• Analyse joint venture and equity participation proposals: entry valuation, dilution, waterfall economics, exit modelling and returns to Rana Holdings.
• Track capital markets conditions, peer trading multiples, sukuk pricing and sector news relevant to the Group’s issuance windows.
• Prepare monthly management analytics: budget variance, programme capex burn, funding requirement forecast and valuation movement bridge.

D. Governance and Standards:

• Enforce a single source of truth for Group financial assumptions and maintain the master assumption register with sourcing and approval history.
• Apply IVS, RICS Red Book and CFA Institute professional and ethical standards to all valuation work.
• Prepare documentation to withstand external model audit, reporting accountant scrutiny and independent valuation review.
• Maintain confidentiality and information-barrier discipline over price-sensitive material.

4. Key Performance Indicators:

• Zero material errors identified in external model audit or investor due diligence.
• Full reconciliation across all Group financial documents at each reporting cycle.
• Turnaround time on investor, lender and rating agency information requests.
• Timely delivery of valuation refreshes ahead of each capital markets milestone.
• Quality and completeness of the master assumption register and model documentation.

5. Qualifications and Experience:

• CFA charterholder (mandatory). Candidates who have passed CFA Level III and are awaiting charter award will be considered.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Mathematics; a professional accounting qualification (CA / ACCA / CPA) or Master’s degree is an advantage.
• Seven (7) to ten (10) years’ relevant experience in investment banking, valuation advisory, Big Four transaction services, private equity, infrastructure funds or corporate development.
• Demonstrable ownership of complex, multi-entity financial models and formal valuation reports.
• Exposure to infrastructure, real estate development, industrial or energy assets preferred; familiarity with carbon markets is an advantage.
• GCC experience preferred; understanding of Islamic finance economics desirable.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

6. Technical and Behavioural Competencies:

• Expert-level Excel and financial modelling; VBA, Power Query and Power BI capability advantageous.
• Strong command of DCF, SOTP, comparable company, precedent transaction and real-option valuation techniques.
• IFRS literacy sufficient to build models that tie to statutory reporting.
• Precise, concise technical writing suitable for board and prospectus use.
• Analytical scepticism – the willingness to challenge an assumption regardless of its source.
• Meticulous attention to detail under deadline pressure.

7. Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Vice President – Finance; Group CFO; Chairman & Managing Director; Programme Director; Head of Leasing & Strategic Partnerships; programme SPV teams.

External: External auditors and reporting accountants; model auditors; independent valuers; rating agencies; investment banks; lenders and investors; market data providers.