CEO

This role combines executive leadership with hands-on financial stewardship. You will lead the overall performance of the group, drive growth across real estate development and investments, and ensure strong governance, reporting, compliance, liquidity management, and capital allocation.

• Leadership and strategy
• Lead the overall performance of the company, ensuring profitability, sustainability, and market competitiveness.
• Develop and execute strategic plans to grow the group’s real estate development and investment activities.
• Identify and pursue new projects, acquisitions, and expansion initiatives; diversify investment portfolios to maximize risk-adjusted returns.
• Financial leadership and governance
• Ensure effective management of assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity while maintaining financial stability and compliance.
• Oversee accurate and timely preparation of financial statements, management accounts, and board-ready reporting packs.
• Lead annual budgets, rolling forecasts, cash flow planning, and variance management.
• Own capital allocation decisions, funding strategy, and evaluation of major investments (IRR/NPV, sensitivity, scenario planning).
• Real estate development and investment oversight
• Monitor project feasibility, investment returns, and development risks across the portfolio.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure optimal performance of real estate assets and investment portfolios, including performance monitoring and value enhancement.
• Business transformation and execution
• Drive process improvement and business transformation initiatives across finance and operations.
• Leverage ERP and BI reporting to improve accuracy, transparency, speed of close, and decision support.
• Strengthen internal controls, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Stakeholder management
• Build and maintain strong relationships with investors, partners, banks, auditors, and key stakeholders.
• Prepare and present comprehensive management reports for executive and board-level discussions.

• Proven senior leadership experience (CEO, CFO, GM Finance, or equivalent) within real estate development, investment groups, family offices, or asset-heavy businesses.
• Strong financial modeling expertise: dynamic cash flow models, capital allocation, project finance, feasibility, and valuation.
• Track record in portfolio oversight, investment evaluation, and risk management.
• Strong understanding of governance, audit, compliance, and financial controls.
• ERP fluency and ability to translate financial data into operational actions (real estate and development reporting).
• UAE or GCC experience in real estate development and investment.
• Experience dealing with boards, shareholders, and institutional partners.
• Arabic fluency strongly preferred.

Confidential client in Property & Real Estate. The employer’s name is kept confidential at this stage.