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Director - Private Equity

International Permanent View Job Description
An outstanding opportunity for an experienced investment professional to join a Dubai-based investment platform operating across private investments, a specialist media investment vehicle, and a diversified portfolio of operating businesses. This role offers exposure to transaction execution, portfolio management, and investment decision-making across multiple sectors including media, technology, consumer, real estate, and shipping
  • Interesting opportunity
  • Reporting to the Founders

About Our Client

Our client is a Dubai-based private investment group that manages a diversified portfolio of investments across multiple sectors. The organisation is actively building a new media investment platform while overseeing a broad range of private investment opportunities and a substantial portfolio of operating businesses in the UK and the Middle East. The environment is entrepreneurial, fast-paced and highly commercial, offering direct exposure to senior decision-makers and complex investment transactions

Job Description

  • Screen and evaluate investment opportunities across media, private investments and portfolio company transactions.
  • Build financial models and valuation analyses from the ground up, including businesses with complex or informal financial information.
  • Lead end-to-end due diligence processes, including data room management, advisor coordination, reference checks and financial analysis
  • Structure and support negotiations on investment terms, shareholder agreements, earn-outs and commercial arrangements.
  • Prepare concise investment papers and recommendations for senior stakeholders and investment committees.
  • Manage transaction execution and support post-investment integration and value creation initiatives.
  • Monitor portfolio performance, prepare board and performance reporting materials, and support refinancing, acquisition and disposal activities.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with founders, management teams, advisors and investment counterparties.
  • Assess investment opportunities across a variety of asset classes and sectors, providing commercial recommendations to senior principals
  • Support portfolio companies operationally where required, including on-site business assessments and problem-solving initiatives.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Investment Director should have:

  • 10-15 years' experience within private equity, principal investing, family offices, investment management or a related investment environment, focusing on media, technology or consumer sectors
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business or a related discipline; advanced professional qualifications are advantageous
  • Demonstrated experience executing both minority and control investment transactions.
  • Strong financial modelling, valuation and investment analysis capabilities.
  • Proven ability to lead due diligence processes and manage complex transactions independently.
  • Experience working directly with founders, business owners and senior stakeholders.
  • Strong judgement, commercial acumen and decision-making skills.



What's on Offer

  • Interesting opportunity
  • Direct exposure to the Co-Founder



Contact
Gitika Aggarwal
Quote job ref
JN-092026-7114060
Phone number
+971 4 709 0324

Job summary

Job function
Banking & Financial Services
Subsector
Venture Capitalism & Private Equity
Sector
Financial Services
Where
International
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Gitika Aggarwal
Consultant phone
+971 4 709 0324
Job reference
JN-092026-7114060