Investment Analyst

Job description / Role

Makeen Properties, a leading UAE-based player in real estate development, is a subsidiary of The Ghobash Group, and boasts nearly three decades of market expertise and experience.

Currently seeking an Investment Analyst for its primary office in Dubai. This person will play a key role within a relatively small day-to-day team, and consequently will have close interaction with the firms General Manager.

Responsibilities will include:
- Conducting detailed financial analyses of individual assets or portfolios, operating companies, and other portfolio investments to determine attractiveness of investment opportunities.
- Building financial models to reflect complex deal structures, analyzing in detail the models and underwritings of operating partners, and running sensitivity analyses across a variety of variables to assess the relative risks and opportunities of a given deal or structure.
- Analyzing diverse categories of data and assisting in the preparation of investment memoranda for the partners and for external investors.
- Assisting in the process of sourcing new investment opportunities through data collection and analysis of best-in-class companies across several real estate sectors.
- Tracking economic, capital market, and real estate trends to help develop investment and asset management strategies

Requirements

The firm is specifically searching for those who have the following skill-sets and backgrounds:
- 1-3 years of prior relevant work experience in real estate private equity, real estate investment banking or real estate finance (preferably from a top-tier firm)
- Ability to perform detailed financial analyses including financial statement analysis, cash-flow modeling, carried interest/waterfall calculations, IRR and cap-rate analyses, etc. (Strong analytical ability is absolutely essential)
- Ability to work well in a small, dynamic team and proactively take on tasks with limited direction.
- High proficiency with Excel is critical.
- Evidence of outstanding written presentation ability (in both Word and PowerPoint)
- Conducting due diligence on assets by managing external advisors;
- Analyzing financial information relating to specific assets, e.g. rent roles, expenditures to determine suitability of an asset to deliver for investors;
- Keeping up to date with market developments, new investment products and all other areas that can affect the markets, e.g. movements in the overall RE market in the investment areas.
- Monitoring the financial news.
- Financial modeling and projection.
- Drafting and writing research reports for the General Manager or client use.
- Meeting with and providing information to the General Manager; this might include, summaries of research, investment ideas, key events from the proceeding day as well as key drivers for the day ahead;
- Making recommendations to the General Manager, being able to position ideas and articulate to the General Manager about the risk or payoff for each recommendation.

Position Type: Permanent & Full time.
Excellent Package + Benefits.
Location: Dubai, UAE

About the Company

Incepted in the late 70's, Ghobash Group has become one of the resilient business conglomerates in UAE. The privately-owned group has expanded to geographies across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe through its diversified business arms.

Focused on growth through value-creation, Ghobash Group has advanced with successful milestones over the years in its business industries: Technology, Chemicals, Engineering, Oil & Gas, Water, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Trading and Real Estate.

CNS, GCG Office Imaging, Tawazon Chemical, E&I Emirates, GCG Engineering Services, Arabian Ethicals, Ataya Fashion, Prime Hospitality, and Makeen Properties. The Group has also formed Joint Ventures over the years such as Sahara Center sustaining its momentum of successful milestones throughout the years.

Sustainability, innovation, diversification, and ownership are amongst the key values the Group has been practicing for decades. Working with partners, who share the same values, the Group has added value throughout the years through profitable investment opportunities in both the private and public sectors.

In depth experience, combined with a granular knowledge of the regional economy, enables Ghobash Group to identify, and provide access to the best business opportunities across the region.

Committed to diversified growth, Ghobash Group is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates and services through its offices and factories in Saudi Arabia, Oman, India, Iraq, and Africa.

The Group values its people as family and its customers as long term partners. Embracing excellence yet keeping it personal is a key strength of the Group which is a characteristic that has not faded since its inception.

Driving success through its people and partners, with its diverse business arm, Ghobash group aims to continue to grow adding value with every opportunity, every transaction, every employee life, every partner business, every community across varied geographies.

Together we make a difference.