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Role Overview
Financial Markets Advisory Director, Middle East at BlackRock, based in the Middle East region.
Company Overview
BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) team provides strategic advice and execution support to clients across capital markets, portfolio management and transaction advisory. Clients include sovereign wealth funds, central banks, government entities, asset owners, banks, insurers and other financial institutions. FMA combines strategic and transaction expertise with BlackRock's capital markets, investment, data and analytics, and technology capabilities.
Role Purpose
To lead and grow FMA's business in the Middle East by advising senior clients on complex financial and strategic matters, deepening key relationships, identifying new advisory and investment collaboration opportunities, and independently managing advisory engagements from design through execution and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Direction & Business Development
- Shape FMA's strategic direction in the Middle East, including identifying growth priorities, emerging themes, and opportunities for new offerings or partnerships.
- Contribute actively to business development by identifying client needs, developing differentiated propositions, leading proposals and expanding senior relationships.
Project Leadership & Delivery
- Independently lead complex advisory projects from scoping and engagement design through analysis, recommendations, implementation support and final delivery.
- Own overall project outcomes, including quality, timeliness, commercial discipline, client satisfaction, team coordination and effective risk management.
- Translate broad or ambiguous client questions into structured issues, workstreams, analytical requirements, deliverables, governance and decision points.
Client Engagement & Advice
- Act as the principal day-to-day adviser to clients, lead executive discussions and communicate complex financial and strategic issues clearly and concisely.
- Engage credibly with management teams, sponsors, investors, lenders, corporates, developers, legal advisers and other transaction participants, including supporting negotiation of commercial terms.
Transaction Advisory
- Lead transaction-related work across sectors and financing structures, including transaction strategy, process design, structuring, financial modelling, valuation, scenario analysis, due diligence and execution planning.
- Assess transactions from strategic, financial, risk, capital-structure and implementation perspectives; prepare investment cases, approval materials and senior-management recommendations.
Analysis & Quality Assurance
- Direct qualitative and quantitative analysis, challenge conclusions and ensure that reports, models and presentations are accurate, rigorous and actionable.
Team Leadership & Coordination
- Coordinate multidisciplinary contributors and integrate specialist inputs into a coherent client solution while maintaining command of the full engagement.
- Lead, mentor and coach project teams, creating clear accountability and fostering a collaborative, inclusive and high-performance culture.
Stakeholder Management & Governance
- Engage with senior stakeholders across the region's financial services and public sector ecosystems.
- Leverage BlackRock's capabilities across Capital Markets, Aladdin, Research and other businesses, acting as a connector across the platform.
- Uphold BlackRock's fiduciary culture, professional standards and commitment to excellent client outcomes.
Qualifications & Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, corporate banking, transaction advisory, investing, financial-services consulting or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead a complex project or transaction from initial definition through execution and delivery.
- Substantive transaction experience spanning several of the following: strategy and process design, modelling and valuation, financing and capital structure, due diligence, structuring, investment approvals, commercial negotiation and execution management.
- Broad financial and commercial judgement, with experience across more than one sector, transaction type, asset class or financing structure preferred.
- Middle East, emerging markets, sovereign or public-sector experience is advantageous.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of capital markets and the operating models, strategic priorities or balance sheets of major financial-market participants.
- Credibility with senior executives and other decision-makers, combined with exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to learn unfamiliar content quickly and turn ambiguity into practical recommendations.
- Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, develop talent and deliver under pressure across competing priorities.
- Commercial orientation, with evidence of business development, origination, relationship expansion or development of new advisory solutions.
- Arabic language capability is advantageous.
Additional Information
Work Model
BlackRock's hybrid work model requires employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities.
Benefits
BlackRock offers a wide range of employee benefits including retirement investment and tools designed to help build a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) to relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.