Corporate Finance Manager

About the role

Requirements

• - 5+ years of relevant finance experience within UAE real estate development is mandatory.
• - Candidates must have substantial hands-on experience with real estate development companies, not solely real estate brokerage.
• - Extensive practical experience in treasury management and cash-flow management.
• - Proven experience in fundraising, debt financing, project financing, or capital raising.
• - Strong existing banking relationships within the UAE.
• - Experience dealing directly with UAE banks and financial institutions.
• - Strong knowledge of real estate development finance and project funding structures.
• - Strong understanding of cross-border financial transactions and applicable laws/regulations across different countries.
• - Excellent financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis skills.
• - Strong knowledge of UAE financial, banking, corporate, and tax-related regulations.
• - Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• - Manage the company’s overall financial operations, cash flow, liquidity, and treasury activities.
• - Develop and implement effective treasury and cash management strategies for real estate development projects.
• - Manage relationships with UAE banks, financial institutions, lenders, and investment partners.
• - Lead and support fundraising, debt financing, project financing, and other capital-raising initiatives.
• - Structure financing solutions for real estate development projects and assess funding requirements.
• - Prepare financial models, feasibility analyses, cash-flow forecasts, funding proposals, and investment-related financial reports.
• - Coordinate with banks regarding credit facilities, project financing, guarantees, LCs, overdrafts, and other banking arrangements.
• - Monitor debt obligations, repayment schedules, interest costs, and financing covenants.
• - Ensure compliance with applicable UAE financial, corporate, tax, banking, and regulatory requirements.
• - Manage and assess cross-border financial transactions and applicable laws/regulations across different jurisdictions.
• - Work closely with legal, investment, development, and senior management teams on financial structuring and transactions.
• - Monitor project-level financial performance, budgets, cash requirements, and funding requirements.
• - Provide strategic financial advice to management regarding investments, financing, liquidity, and risk.
• - Establish strong internal controls and financial reporting procedures.
• - Support due diligence processes with banks, investors, lenders, and external advisors.

Skills

• Treasury management
• Cash-flow management
• Fundraising
• Debt financing
• Project financing
• Financial modelling
• Forecasting
• Budgeting
• Cross-border financial transactions
• Banking relationships
• Regulatory compliance (UAE financial, banking, tax)
• Financial reporting
• Stakeholder management
• Due diligence