Corporate Finance Manager

Role Overview

Corporate Finance Manager at MIRA Construction, a real estate development company based in Dubai, UAE.

Role Purpose

Manage the company's financial operations, treasury activities, and capital-raising initiatives while maintaining banking and investor relationships and ensuring compliance with UAE financial and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Treasury & Cash Management

• 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.
• Monitor project-level financial performance, budgets, cash requirements, and funding requirements.

Banking & Investor Relations

• Manage relationships with UAE banks, financial institutions, lenders, and investment partners.
• Coordinate with banks regarding credit facilities, project financing, guarantees, letters of credit, overdrafts, and other banking arrangements.
• Support due diligence processes with banks, investors, lenders, and external advisors.

Fundraising & Capital Structuring

• 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.

Financial Compliance & Monitoring

• 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 and regulations across different jurisdictions.

Strategic Finance & Governance

• Provide strategic financial advice to management regarding investments, financing, liquidity, and risk.
• Work closely with legal, investment, development, and senior management teams on financial structuring and transactions.
• Establish strong internal controls and financial reporting procedures.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of relevant finance experience within UAE real estate development.
• 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 and regulations across different countries.
• Strong knowledge of UAE financial, banking, corporate, and tax-related regulations.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.

Additional Information

• Competitive salary package based on experience and expertise.
• Opportunity to work directly with senior management on real estate development, financing, and investment projects.
• Exposure to UAE and international financing, fundraising, and banking transactions.
• Opportunity to build and leverage relationships with leading UAE banks and financial institutions.
• Professional and dynamic working environment.
• Long-term career growth within a growing real estate development organization.
• UAE employment visa and medical insurance, subject to company policy.