United Arab Emirates jobs in Abu Dhabi

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategically-minded Chief of Staff, to partner with the CEO and Executive team in Abu Dhabi. This critical role involves driving strategic execution, ensuring operational excellence, and facilitating effective communication across their organisation in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

As a Quantitative Investment Professional, you will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing asset allocation and portfolio construction strategies across the firm's funds and SMAs. You will leverage advanced quantitative techniques to optimize capital deployment, support investment decision-making, and enhance portfolio performance across private markets.

This role is focused on leading the performance, planning, and quality assurance of a large-scale government service desk, ensuring efficient issue resolution and high user satisfaction. The ideal candidate will drive service improvements, collaborate with technical teams, and implement strategic enhancements aligned with ITIL best practices.

• Lead and coordinate all procurement activities across departments, ensuring compliance, documentation, and process efficiency.
• Manage vendor relationships and procurement systems, driving contract renewals and operational improvements.

The Investment Operations Manager will play a key role in leading the investment operations function, ensuring seamless execution and reporting across asset classes and jurisdictions. This is a high-impact position that requires expertise in systematic hedge fund operations and/or Quantitative Investment Systems (QIS), as well as a strong command of portfolio analytics, vendor management, and process optimization.

This is a hands-on role where you will work closely with senior leadership, consolidate financial data across subsidiaries, and present actionable insights through advanced dashboards and visualisations. You will also play a critical role in developing and mentoring a small team while driving financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting initiatives that directly influence strategic growth.

As an Execution Trader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that trade execution processes are efficient, accurate, and seamless.

In this role, you will provide expert legal advice to support complex projects from development through to operational phases. You will manage contract negotiations, oversee external legal partners, and ensure legal risks are effectively mitigated.

This role supports investment, financing, and refinancing projects by reviewing financial documents, conducting due diligence, and developing financial strategies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact investment solutions.

The role involves leading financial reporting, financial close, audit coordination and maintaining accurate records across funds and investment entities.

The role involves overseeing financial reporting, audits, and regulatory compliance, while supporting strategic finance initiatives across the business.

The role will focus on supporting the Portfolio Management team, conducting research for the use of the investment team, and generating investment content for sales and marketing with a strong focus on presentation creation & curation. This is an exciting opportunity to gain exposure to a broad range of investments and asset classes in a dynamic, collaborative team environment.

As a Private Equity Associate, you will be involved in all aspects of the investment lifecycle, from deal sourcing and execution to value creation and exit strategy. The role will require strong financial modelling, analytical acumen, and strategic thinking, as well as the ability to work collaboratively across internal teams and with portfolio companies.

This is a senior-level opportunity to lead the design and development of enterprise-grade technology solutions across key airline domains, driving innovation and architectural alignment with business strategy.

As the Senior Strategy Manager within the Corporate Affairs department, you will focus on the design and delivery of existing and new programs as well as create new partnerships to maximise the value of the entity's core assets as well as advance the UAE's knowledge economy.

This role leads the strategic planning and operational excellence of large-scale digital platforms for a UAE government-affiliated organisation, ensuring stability, innovation, and cost efficiency

We are supporting our client in the search for a Team Leader - General Ledger, a key position based in Abu Dhabi. This role is ideal for a finance professional with strong leadership skills and hands-on experience in GL management, reconciliation, and compliance. The selected candidate will be instrumental in ensuring financial accuracy, driving automation, and acting as a business partner to strengthen internal controls and optimize financial operations.

You will lead legal reviews and negotiations across a range of complex commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with business goals while managing risk. Working within a collaborative and high-performing team, you will be expected to take a pragmatic approach to contract law, providing clear, business-friendly advice to internal stakeholders.

As the Manager Enterprise Risk Management and insurance, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the organisations assets, reputation and sustainability across the group portfolio. This role acts as a strategic advisor to the group and its assets/subsidiaries, managing the processes, strategies and frameworks to identify, assess, mitigate and monitor risks across operations to ensuring adequate insurance coverage.

Be part of a mission-driven team tackling complex, unsolved challenges of national importance through strategy, innovation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The role offers the opportunity to lead high-stakes initiatives that influence long-term policy and drive meaningful, system-wide change.

In this role, you will be working directly with Executive Leadership to solve high-priority challenges through innovative thinking, strategic insight, and creative design processes.

Shape the future of digital services through intuitive and impactful design. Join a team at the forefront of AI innovation and lead the charge in creating user-centered experiences that truly matter.

Leading a team, you will be managing the strategic business engagement projects across the entity. You will be leveraging your consulting expertise within the utilities and energy sectors to deliver impactful analysis and recommendations to key stakeholders.

As the VP Strategic Planning & Performance Management, you will be a key member of the senior leadership team, responsible for leading the development and execution of the organisation's strategic plan and establishing a robust performance management framework.

Lead the strategic development and execution of research commercialisation for a leading academic institute, maximising value for Abu Dhabi and the UAE. This key role involves partnering with institute leadership, engaging with stakeholders across the higher education and R&D sectors, and guiding internal and external teams.

To lead the Strategic Communications vertical and execute all strategic and external communication responsibilities including strategic planning, leadership positioning, knowledge management, content development, reputation monitoring, agency contract development and oversight (for public relations, social media, media monitoring and website agencies), and crisis management.

As a Business Performance Manager, you will be responsible for managing business performance frameworks and reporting to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and KPIs. Working closely with executive leadership, the role drives insights, supports strategic planning, and enables data-driven decisions at the CEO level.

As a Strategic Transformation Manager, you will lead the execution of strategic initiatives, providing high-level advisory support to executive leadership and ensuring alignment with long-term business priorities. The role demands deep strategic acumen, cross-functional collaboration, and a transformation-driven mindset to shape and implement the organisation's future direction