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    Senior Interior Designer | Square Yards

    Employment:

    Full Time

    We are hiring for Interior designer and Sr. Interior Designer for our Dubai vertical

    • Candidates should have strong experience in AutoCAD, Sketchup, 3D Visualisation.• Minimum 1-2 Years experience in above skills will be preferred• Candidate should have great communication skills• Should be good with client handling • Candidate will have to give presentations and prepare BOQs for the business in hand.

    Square Yards is a technology-enabled O2O transaction and aggregator platform for Global real estate. It offers a comprehensive, integrated menu of global property & asset portfolio by using technology, data, research and diversified presence to make global real estate investments decision making more research led and driven by risk/reward perspective. Square Yards has achieved a significant scale in facilitating real estate investments to satisfied customers worldwide through its direct presence of more than 2000 employees in 30 cities in 10 countries including India, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Singapore, UK, Hong Kong, Australia and Canada. Square Yards has presence in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Sharjah, Muscat, Bahrain in the GCC region. More

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    HR Generalist | Robert Half

    Employment:

    Full Time

    As the HR Manager you will join an established business within the Financial Services sector where you will join an existing HR team. This role requires a HR Manager who has a hands-on HR operational approach with the ability to HR business partner with the senior management team. You will be a team player who is used to working in fast paced environments advising on all areas of HR.The Role* 360 HR generalist* HR business partnering providing commercial HR solutions* Manage recruitment processes including onboarding* Develop and support performance management* Compensation and benefits* Development and succession planning* Corporate CSR

    The Candidate* You will be degree educated with minimum 8 to 10 years’ experience at Senior HR Manager level/ Commercial HRBP. Strong experience of working in a fast-paced financial services business with the ability to manage teams and work collaboratively on HR projects.* Confident communicator with excellent problem-solving ability.* Experience of financial services, professional services or management consultancy preferred. Must be multinational or global companySalary and Benefits* Salary between 30,000-40,000aed per monthRobert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Pay and salary ranges are dependent upon experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data.

    Founded in 1948, Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE symbol: RHI) is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm and a member of the S&P 500 index. We are a global leader in professional staffing and consulting services and the parent company of Protiviti, a leading independent internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm. For 2006, Robert Half International reported revenues of $4 billion and now has staffing and consulting operations in more than 400 locations worldwide. More

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    Talent Acquisition Director | Robert Half

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Senior Director Talent Acquisition – Abu DhabiThis is a newly created role where you join a transforming business based in Abu Dhabi. As the Senior Director Talent Acquisition, you will design and develop the overall TA strategy aligned to the business strategy and agenda. Managing the existing TA team you will create a robust talent attraction strategy and a TA business partnering model to ensure success of the TA function.* Executes and strategically delivers the overall TA offering* Implements and sustains Human Resources initiatives related to TA* Supports the Head of Human Capital in all areas of workforce planning* Leads on TA initiatives that have high employee impact* Provides advice and guidance to the executive committee* Develop retention statistics, SLA’s and KPI’s* Expert facilitator of the selection and interviewing process* Develop and lead on work processes and staffing optimization* Expert on attraction strategy and employee engagement

    * This is a Senior Director level appointment where you will have 15 years plus experience of operating at Senior Director level with Talent Acquisition, degree educated. * Experience of financial services, management consultancy or professional services essential.* Effective communicator with proven experience of working with Exco and senior management teams.Robert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Pay and salary ranges are dependent upon experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data.

    Founded in 1948, Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE symbol: RHI) is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm and a member of the S&P 500 index. We are a global leader in professional staffing and consulting services and the parent company of Protiviti, a leading independent internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm. For 2006, Robert Half International reported revenues of $4 billion and now has staffing and consulting operations in more than 400 locations worldwide. More

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    Data Scientist – Social Trading Platform | NSI & Bluefin Talent

    Employment:

    Full Time

    I’m currently assisting an upcoming Social Investment Platform based out of Dubai, UAE to look for an experienced Data Scientist to join their growing team. Project experience related to asset management, financial risk management, trading, and crypto is highly desirable for this role.Responsibilities:• The company is using financial time series for building intelligence signal generators (price prediction, market status, and bot traders). They use classic machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning to achieve the desired results.• You will be building intelligence automatic asset management and creating portfolio evaluations. Aside from this, you’ll be researching innovative ways in Financial risk management.•You will be working with team members to analyze models, performance to visualize and tune models.

    Requirements:• Bachelor / Masters degree or Ph.D. in the field of Data Science (AI/ML), Cognitive Science, Statistics, Econometrics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or any related technical disciplines• At least +3 years of work experience in the field of AI/ML or related areas and are experienced in the productionalization of ML framework. • Experience in Python, particularly concerning AI/ML development (at least 3 years in python) • Experience in machine and statistical learning, deep learning, and Reinforcement Learning • Familiarity with time-series methods• Forecasting models using Deep learning algorithms such as FFNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU• Experience in Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning such as DDPG,A2C, TD3, PPO, or any custom RL algorithms• Worked with financial data such as OHLC and other indicators like MACD, CCI, RSI etc.• Having any experience in financial markets especially cryptocurrency and DeFi is a plus• Having done academic or industry research in Financial machine learning is a plus

    New Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution within the Consulting and Financial services domains.

    Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on blue chip financial services and strategy / technology consulting organizations across Europe and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.

    We are dedicated to representing best of breed candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.

    Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.

    Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote. More

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    Treasury and Bank Support – Associate | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesSpecialismIFS – FinanceManagement LevelAssociateJob Description & SummaryThe Treasury and Bank Team is a key team within the Finance function in PwC ME. The role ensures all day to day activities are completed on time and according to approved process. Ensures adherence of the function to PwC approved accounting principles, established procedures, departmental guidelines, and regulatory requirements applicable to the work. Responsible for relationships for the region.Optimises available cash balances across the region, transfers balances to /from territories according to need. Primary duties and responsibilitiesFinancial • Conduct all activities with a view to optimising ME resources, with the aim to minimise interest and bank charges • Support development of forward looking cash plan, anticipating changes in cash balances and planning coverage by facilities• Support management of all regional bank accounts, supports opening and closing of accounts across the region and manages data within appropriate systems • Processes bank guarantee requests from LoS Finance Partners or Client Staff • Reviews outstanding guarantees and flag to where reclaims are overdue • Collate and report on weekly cash position review from each territory • Consolidate all surpluses and deficits for each territory, with all surpluses transferred to central, and all deficits covered by central Customer • Support treasury activities for all territories, ensuring that they are able to conduct local activities e.g. payroll efficiently each month• Support Leader in working closely with LoS Finance Partners as appropriate on any LoS related Treasury / cash issues • Work closely with other Finance & Accounting Teams (.e.g. AP) to understand their activities and to ensure the correct accounting treatment is applied to their activities • Contribute to ensuring the provision of high quality treasury services Internal Process • Ensure adherence to PwC approved accounting standards and principles • Coordinate activities with other departments and workgroups as needed • Support analysis of Treasury & Bank processes efficiency, identifying improvement initiatives • Assist in developing treasury reports on a periodic basis for senior management as needed • Monitor financial and economic market trends including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, etc. Learning & Growth • Ensures adherence to PwC approved accounting standards and principles; ensures maintenance of proper audit trails and verification and reconciliation actions for all processed work• Responsible for management of workloads as appropriate• Responsible for the continuing professional development of self• Establish a healthy work environment for employees on the team• Act as a key resource and liaison to other functional areas of the business, building cross-functional relationships as needed

    Knowledge, skills, and abilitiesEducation • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or related field required Language • Fluency in spoken and written English and Arabic is essential Overall Experience • 2+ years of experience in a treasury function Specific Experience • Experience with treasury operation • Experience with funds allocation, working capital, foreign exchange management and bank guarantees • Knowledge and Skills • Knowledge of capital structures management • Knowledge of liquidity analysis and optimization techniques • Knowledge of financial risk management and hedging tools • Excellent financial, statistical and analytical skills • Exposure to financial market trends (e.g. current risks, interest rate risks) and treasury products • Understanding of general/international accounting standards and practices • Organization, thoroughness, eye for detail, time management skills and proactivity • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ethical Conduct

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    Functional Engineer | Oracle

    Employment:

    Full Time

    As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.As an Advisory Systems Engineer, you are expected to be an expert member of the problem-solving/avoidance team and be highly skilled in solving extremely complex (often previously unknown), critical customer issues. Performing the assigned duties with a high level of autonomy and reporting to management on customer status and technical matters on a regular basis, you will be expected to work with very limited guidance from management. Further, the Advisory Systems Engineer is sought by customers and Oracle employees to provide expert technical advice.

    Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Because of substantial customer interfacing, a demonstrated ability to work with customers on an independent basis with exceptional communication skills, while consistently achieving the absolute highest levels of customer satisfaction. Both a Bachelor*s and Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience 8 years related experience prior to taking this position. In addition, experience with Oracle’s core products, applications, and tools.As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

    Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models – including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds – to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

    Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

    More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation. More

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    IT Applications Manager | Robert Half

    Employment:

    Full Time

    The RoleThe IT Applications Manager responsibility will mainly be for the support, testing, and development of the companies Applications in accordance with the specified business and architectural requirements.It will be key to proactively collaborate with software vendors, other IT teams and Market Operations, pre-empting problems, and resolving concerns in a timely and efficient mannerKey tasks* Responsible for the implementation of different applications on premise and on cloud.* Liaison with vendor teams and internal teams during implementation.* Completing UAT testing and production launching in collaboration with infrastructure team, market operations, and application vendors.* Responsible for the integration of different applications from different vendors.* Assuring seamless integration through testing and coordinating between the various teams.* Create and maintain process flows, process flow descriptions and data flow diagrams by consulting and liaising with the business, vendors, developers, market operations and IT infra teams.* To provide technical IT support* Support business with their requirements from various applications* Participating in new business system implementation* Support analysis and design phase activities by producing User cases, Activity diagrams, User Interface prototypes, Report templates and Application prototypes.* Setting up all corporate action events in production* Manage user access in production* Clarification of business enquiries* Assure Network security protocols are adhered to in line with network security team.* Responsible for the resolution of all functional related issues including managing defects and coordinating for issues resolution with all stakeholders.

    The Candidate* At least 5 years IT experience in the application development with at least 2 years’ experience in a position within a financial institution, brokerage, or bank covering capital markets applications* Excellent communication skills* Project Management skills and ability to priorities tasks and deliver to commitment* BSc Degree in Computer Science or Engineering* Evidence of ongoing personal development and enrichment of IT and business skills* Excellent knowledge with experience in Trading and Post Trading Applications.* Knowledge with data modelling and modern architecture concepts* Workflow and document management experience* Strong functional analysis and design with experience in requirements gathering and definition* Full life-cycle methodology experience* Innovative with strong Analytical skillsSalary and Benefits * Up to 40,000 AED per month + wider company benefits on offerRobert Half is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Pay and salary ranges are dependent upon experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data.

    Founded in 1948, Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE symbol: RHI) is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm and a member of the S&P 500 index. We are a global leader in professional staffing and consulting services and the parent company of Protiviti, a leading independent internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm. For 2006, Robert Half International reported revenues of $4 billion and now has staffing and consulting operations in more than 400 locations worldwide. More

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    Client Technical Specialist – AutomationTech Sales | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction Client Technical Specialists (CTP) are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. As a CTP you understand the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!Your Role and Responsibilities IBM is looking for a Technical Sales specialist who will be responsible for developing and maintaining trusted client relationships at all levels within a client’s organization. As a deep Technical Subject Matter Expert and Strategic Thinker, you will help customers, IBM account teams and Business Partners to create and develop cloud strategies, roadmaps and technical plans (focused around Integration) to enable the strategic goals of your clients.- You will be responsible for gathering and understanding the client’s business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. – From this you will provide technical sales support which may include collaborating with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions; delivering Proof of Concepts and/or MVPs; developing and delivering technical education to colleagues, Customers and Partners; supporting critical situations; designing solutions; and answering technical questions. – When engaged for a specific opportunity or project, you are responsible for the technical accuracy and fit of the proposed solution.Other responsibilities may include coordination of presales or (in some cases) delivery activities with internal and external service partners, presentations on marketing and enablement events, leading local developer communities, writing technical papers, blogs etc.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise Essential- 2-3+ years of experience in IT Integration, ideally using IBM Integration product portfolio or competitive counterparts, in complex and demanding projects. – 2-3+ years experience of autonomous development of Integration artefacts (integration flows, APIs etc) for Integration products. – Experience in architecting, designing and implementing Microservices, EAI, SOA, API and Web Services integration solutions. – Experience working with IBM Integration (MQ, IIB, App Connect, Datapower) or other solutions (e.g., MuleSoft, Oracle Fusion, TIBCO, Dell Boomi, etc.) – API Management solution experience (IBM API Connect, WSO2, Mulesoft, Apigee, etc.) – A deep understanding of the concepts of building resilient and reliable integration solutions on IBM or other Middleware. – Experience of designing and building solutions based on Containers/Kubernetes/OpenShift – Good understanding of the following technologies: JSON, Swagger, Web Services, XML, XSLT, Java, Node.js, – Strong analytical and good inter-personal skills. Good organizational and problem solving abilities. – Good knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, standards and procedures. – Proven track record in Tech Sales or similar role. – Excellent verbal communication, written communication, and presentation skills Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseBeneficial to have- Experience in deploying and working with Integration products on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift – Code development in Java, JavaScript or other popular languages and frameworks will be considered a plus. – Knowledge of container offerings: IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Google Kubernetes Service (GKE). – Strong industry experience and background in one of the following industries: Banking, Telco, Public sector (Government). – DevOps tooling and processes, particularly in hybrid cloud architectures – Understanding of IT security frameworks and protocols: Oauth2.0, OIDC, Kerberos, SAML; understanding of security integration architecture for common industry patterns such as e.g. PSD2 solutions in Banking

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More