Senior Operations Leader: Real Estate Fintech

Stake Properties Limited; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Equity compensation

Budget for learning and development

DEWS savings scheme (DIFC)

Team events and off-sites

Job summary

Stake is seeking a Senior Operations Manager to lead Business Operations for its growing real estate fintech platform in the MENA region. You will own end-to-end money processes, build scalable controls, and lead a team to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will partner with Finance, Asset Management, Transactions, and Product teams, driving cross-functional projects and reporting to regulators where required. Strong AI and Arabic skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in operations, with meaningful time in financial services, fintech, or real estate.
• End-to-end ownership of operational processes at real scale, designing, running and improving them.
• Direct experience managing financial flows: reconciliations, distributions, payables and receivables.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen; comfortable with data in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Own the core money processes end to end: the weekly dividend cycle, reconciliation, payables, receivables, forecasting, investor votes and exits.
• Lead and develop a team of operations specialists; set clear expectations and invest in their growth.
• Identify and implement improvements to operational processes using technology and best practices to scale.
• Build controls to catch problems before investors see them; reconciliation before payout and alerting on key issues.
• Document each core process and ensure coverage beyond any single person, including you.
• Partner with Finance on reconciliation, receivables, cost allocation to reduce friction.
• Monitor portfolio performance and coordinate with Property Management to address issues.
• Provide stakeholders with dashboards, reports, and ad-hoc insights on asset performance.
• Own investor communications regarding property updates and events.

Skills

Operations

Financial services

Analytical

Excel

Regulated environment

Team leadership

English fluency

AI mindset

Arabic language

Tools

Databases

Automation tools

Job description

Stake is seeking a Senior Operations Manager to lead Business Operations for its growing real estate fintech platform in the MENA region. You will own end-to-end money processes, build scalable controls, and lead a team to improve efficiency and reliability.

You will partner with Finance, Asset Management, Transactions, and Product teams, driving cross-functional projects and reporting to regulators where required. Strong AI and Arabic skills are a plus.