CharteredPartners is seeking a Corporate Finance & Advisory Director to lead deal execution within the advisory practice of a well-established accounting firm in Dubai. You will run M&A and transaction engagements, own the quality of deliverables and manage senior client relationships across a growing regional deal market. The mandate spans sovereign and family-conglomerate transactions, a maturing IPO pipeline and cross-border MENA deals, working within the ADGM and DIFC environments and supporting partners in the development of the practice. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the execution of M&A and transaction-advisory engagements, taking responsibility for process, analysis and outcomes.
• Own the quality of deliverables, reviewing financial models, due-diligence findings and reports before they reach clients.
• Manage senior client relationships across sovereign entities, family conglomerates and corporates in the region.
• Support a maturing IPO pipeline on DFM and ADX, including readiness assessments and financial information reviews.
• Advise on cross-border MENA transactions, addressing structuring and reporting considerations across jurisdictions.
• Support partners in business development, contributing to proposals, pitches and pricing for new mandates.
• Direct and develop engagement teams, allocating work and mentoring managers and executives.
• Operate fluently within the ADGM and DIFC regulatory frameworks relevant to transactions.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• A recognised professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent) in good standing.
• Extensive post-qualification experience in corporate finance, M&A or transaction advisory, including at director or equivalent level.
• A demonstrable record of leading deal execution from mandate through to completion.
• Strong command of valuation methodologies and financial modelling under IFRS.
• Experience advising sovereign, family-conglomerate or large-corporate clients.
• Familiarity with ADGM and DIFC frameworks and the regional regulatory environment.
• Awareness of IPO processes on DFM, ADX or comparable regional exchanges.
• Proven ability to manage senior client relationships independently.
• Excellent leadership skills, with a track record of developing engagement teams.
• The right to work in the United Arab Emirates or the ability to obtain it.

Preferred Experience:

• Exposure to sovereign and family-conglomerate deal flow in the Gulf region.
• Experience supporting IPO readiness or capital-markets transactions in the UAE.
• A track record of cross-border MENA transactions and structuring.
• Sector specialism in areas such as real estate, energy, financial services or infrastructure.
• Established relationships across the regional corporate finance and investor community.
• Experience contributing materially to practice business development.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to candidates who hold or can obtain the right to work in the United Arab Emirates and who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

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