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    Senior Investment Analyst – Venture Capital | Michael Page

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Exciting senior opportunity in growing venture capital company.Client DetailsEarly stage start up venture capital based in RiyadhDescriptionFor my client I am looking for a Sr Investment Analyst. In this position you will work closely with the Managing Director. The client is looking for someone that can work by him (or her) self in their modern office in Riyadh. Because of the network and opportunities Riyadh office, they have decided to make Riyadh the main office for the company. The Managing director will be located in Al Khobar and you will be reporting directly into him. You will play a crucial role in achieving the objectives of the company in the coming period, which are:• Establish own fund• Increase portfolio size from 20 million USD to 30 million USD• Rationalize what we have between funds and investments (construction, mobility, healthcare etc).The portfolio has more than 50 startups. You will need to research on them and try to get involved directly or indirectly.Furthermore you will be developing synergies between portfolio companies in ventures and the holding. You will screen new opportunities and focus on deal execution, reporting. Lastly you will create and present at meetings.Job Offer• Competitive salary package.• On the long term the Senior Investment Analyst should become a Team lead and could be promoted to the Chief Investment Officer eventually. You will be exposed to the holding projects as well; M&A which are starting at 15 million SAR and above.

    The ideal candidate for this position needs to have:• A strong background in Private Equity and Venture Capital ( 5+ years) in the early stage of a start-up• Investment analysis and modelling skills• Valuations for both early stage and mature businesses• Knowledge VC & PE investments• Knowledge M&A process• Due Diligence• Presentation and business writing skills• Experience with ticket size 2-2,5 million USD and to companies 1 million USD.• You need to be passionate about the opportunity in Riyadh• Must have high and positive energy and no 9-5 mentality• Additionality it is important to have interest in the company and intrinsic motivation to be part of the company. • Qualifications: CFA. MBA is a plus

    Michael Page is one of the world’s leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

    The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

    Finance & Accounting
    Banking & Financial Services
    Procurement
    Property & Construction
    Engineering & Supply Chain
    Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering
    Human Resources
    Sales
    Marketing
    Technology
    Secretarial
    Executive Search
    Legal

    The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide. More

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    Career Services Associate for a Professional Services Multinational | RecruitME

    Employment:

    Temporary

    This role is temporary for 4 months.As a Career Services Administrator, you will support the Career Services (CS) team with administrative duties and ad hoc initiatives by preparing and keeping updated all CS-related materials. This includes Candidate’s Database information, Head-hunter information, Job Leads logs or CV writing material to support the operational running of the team’s activities.In addition you will introduce candidates’ profiles to potential target companies or liaise with other external parties such as head-hunters under the guidance of the CS Manager.Your responsibilities will include:• Keeping up to date internal logs and database including: Candidates’ database, Job Leads and Target companies’ database, head-hunter Log• Introducing potential candidate’s profiles to external companies including Clients and Target Companies• Keeping Internal material up to date such as CV writing pack• Supporting the Career Services team whilst maintaining confidentiality at all times• You are a strong and active contributor in the team, working on ad hoc administrative support as required• You demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and you are great at interacting with internal and external stakeholders across functions.• You have a strong sense of Customer Service and address issues, suggesting solutions within your area of scope.• You can solve routine problems by choosing and developing alternatives.• You are detail-oriented by nature and you enjoy maintaining data accuracy on all Career Services logs and databases, leveraging on proficient excel and MS Office suite capabilities.• You demonstrate strong organization skills with an ability to consistently meet deadlines and handle competing priorities effectively.• You have a strong ability to work under pressure.• You are results-driven and self-motivated.• You can respect all information as personal and confidential.• You enjoy working in a demanding, fast-paced and multicultural environment

    • Currently based in the UAE.• A relevant bachelor’s degree • Max 2 years’ support experience, preferably at an executive search firm or a junior recruiting role at a professional services firm.• Strong verbal and written communication skills; fluency in English, Arabic is a plus.• Advanced level computer skills: Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

    RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

    Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

    What we do:

    Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

    We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved. More

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    Temp BD Proposal Analyst Public Sector | RecruitME

    Employment:

    Temporary

    This role is temp for 9 months and can be based in Dubai or Riyadh.The Analyst is aligned to the Public Sector (PS) area, you will support in writing proposals while maintaining top-level quality in content production.As a BD Analyst, you will be supporting the BD agenda by aiming for sustainable business growth and forging strong business relationship for clients. Your main role will be to drive proposal support to the team and embed trust in your function services. Your primary responsibilities will include:Supporting proposal responses to RFP’s from prospective PS clientsLeading content curation for the within the BD functionEnsuring the quality in the preparation and management of proposal documents Advising and guiding local staff on PS topic and client best practicesYou are highly flexible and adapt your style to changing situations and audiences with tact, poise and patience, demonstrating persistence to drive change and contributing to a positive and productive work environmentYou’re great at managing relationships: You’ll work positively and collaboratively with various teams to understand the requests and deliver effectivelyYou produce high-quality documents in accordance to set standardsOrganization skills: ability to handle competing priorities effectively

    Candidates must be currently based in Dubai or RiyadhBachelor’s/Master’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in public affairs, government relations and public policyStrong verbal communication skills; fluency in English, Arabic is plusAdvanced level computer skills; Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OutlookAbility to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environmentResourcefulness, high attention to detail and strong problem-solving capabilitiesAbility to work effectively as a member of a teamExcellent communication and negotiation skills

    RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

    Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

    What we do:

    Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

    We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved. More

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    Regional Finance Manager | Charterhouse

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Charterhouse are currently managing a search for one of our leading client’s, within the professional services sector, whom are in the process of looking to identify a Group Finance Manager based out of their Dubai hub. This Finance Manager shall inherit a small unit of staff, covering a team of partners and lawyers, based across a network of regional offices. This position is designed to oversee and support all areas of financial accounting, financial management and business partnering whilst providing consolidated financial accounts, for group submittal to the EMEA headquarters, on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis. This position shall be heavily geared towards both planning and budgeting processes whilst also being instrumental in the operational oversight of cash management, collections and forecasting functions. In conjunction, the role shall extend to the review of policies and controls for internal audit purposes.

    Our client is looking to hire a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA) whom can demonstrate, up to 5 years of experience, within an operational and more latterly leadership/management based role. A knowledge of the workings of the professional services and/or consultancy sector will be an important aspect of the search criterion and applicants are required to possess experience of working within a practice environment; whereby they can bring both technical expertise and a commercial gravitas to the role. The successful candidate will be required to present a strong knowledge of IT processes including Excel-based platforms; this will be critical to meet both process-change initiatives whilst also allowing an understanding of the business-support and fee earning tracking tools.

    The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

    Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. More

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    Product Owner | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Product Owner is a professional responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by a team in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product.• As Product Owner, you will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinates sprints. • You should be able to identify user needs, help a customer understand a business value and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.• Your effort is important for the organization as you will need to deliver product not just according to users, but the product that helps make our organization vision reality.

    • Related credited certificate in Agile methodology.• Minimum of 12 years experience.• Working knowledge in Jira, Confluence & Bitbucket.• Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.• Owns the product roadmap.• Develop scope and define backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    .Net Systems Developer | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    We are looking for a .Net developer to build software using languages and technologies of the .NET framework. You will create applications from scratch, configure existing systems and provide user support.In this role, you should be able to write functional code with a sharp eye for spotting defects. You should be a team player and excellent communicator. If you are also passionate about the .NET framework and software design/architecture, we’d like to meet you.• Your goal will be to work with internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.

    • Proven experience as a .NET Developer. • Familiarity with the ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC)).• Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic .NET) and HTML5/CSS3.• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC).• Understanding of Agile methodologies.• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.• Attention to detail.• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.• Working knowledge in Jira, Confluence & Bitbucket.• Minimum of 8 years experience in the field.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    Receptionist | MENA Recruit

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Our client, a professional services firm, are wishing to recruit a Junior Secretary/Receptionist due to their current Receptionist being promoted to Secretary.They are seeking a native English speaking front of house professional for a permanent position.General responsibilities: • Assisting with all the various legal secretarial tasks (printing, scanning, word processing• Entering the data into databases• Answering the phone• Scheduling meetings• Travelling arrangements• Keeping up the contact with other worldwide offices• Coordinating events• Maintain tidy reception area• Make teas/coffees• Coordinating drivers and trips• Assisting other PA’s to support Directors and replacing each other sometimes etc.Salary up to AED16K.

    Salary:
    AED
    14,000 to 16,000
    per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

    • Previous Reception/Secretarial experience required• Computer literate• Touch typist• Polished presentation• Fluent Arabic and English• Clear phone manner• Enthusiastic approach• Team player• Strong attention to detail• Flexible and happy to assist wherever needed• Experience with accounting, HR consulting, finance and/or business is desirable however not mandatory.

    MENA Recruit is a boutique Executive Search and Recruitment firm focused on meeting recruitment needs from Business Services through to Partner and General Counsel level within the legal sector. This extends to in-house and private practice in multiple industries covering the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Egypt along with a select group of tier one international firms in Australia.

    With over 20 years’ recruitment experience in London and Dubai, we have developed strong international ties in the UK, USA and APAC and have an extensive local Middle East network to draw from. We are committed to providing a bespoke service to clients and candidates. More

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    Solutions Architect – Web Application | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • Must have a four-year Bachelor’s degree at minimum in Management, Communication, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant specialization.• Preferred certifications include TOGAF Certified, Certified Scrum Master from Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance, CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect (or Microsoft/Google equivalent).

    • 4 years experience MINIMUM as a solutions architect spanning multiple products, technologies, and platforms.• 4 years experience collaborating, reviewing, and supporting multiple technical teams to align with architectural decisions.• 4 years experience designing architectures of complex, distributed web applications and services, encompassing all tiers (both servers and software for file storage, databases, full text indexes, application containers, web servers, queuing servers, load balancers, etc.).• 4 years experience producing artifacts related to the design and documentation of architectures.• 8 years experience MINIMUM building Java-based applications.• 7 years experience with REST web services.• 6 years experience using the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot.• 7 years experience developing applications using an ORM framework.• 8 years experience working with Linux command line and Linux scripts.• 5 years experience building servers for different purposes, including file server clusters, application servers, database servers, indexing servers, etc.• 4 years experience successfully deploying and maintaining open source infrastructure technologies across a wide variety of purposes.• 2 years experience monitoring and maintaining farms of Linux servers and clusters.• 8 years experience using HTML5 and CSS3.• 6 years experience development using Javascript.• 4 years experience with Bootstrap and jQuery.• 2 years working with Javascript frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Vue.• 4 years experience producing and analyzing complex SQL queries.• 6 years working in an environment relying upon automated builds and continuous integration.• 5 years working in an organization deeply adhering to the Scrum methodology.• 5 years collaborating with quality assurance teams either as a developer or architect.

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.

    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.

    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More