Equity Trader
Swisslinx Middle East
Dubai, UAE
The Role
On behalf of our client, an asset management firm based in the DIFC, Swisslinx Middle East is looking for an Equity Trader to join their office. In this role, the successful candidate will: - Execute trades for the best possible results as per the asset management business - Comply fully with trade execution policies - Contribute to the overall market knowledge across all departments - Ensure all trades are executed with no errors
Requirements
To be considered for the role you must: - 2-4 years of experience in trade execution in the GCC/MENA regions in both equities and fixed income - Solid understanding of Sharia’a compliant equities and sukuk - CFA qualified - Arabic speaking Our client is looking for a dedicated, well experienced and hands-on candidate who could add the positive attitude to their growing team. They are a specialist in their field and offer the right candidate competitive remuneration and a great working environment.
About the Company
Swisslinx Middle East is a leading executive search firm in the region. We specialise in recruitment solutions, talent acquisition and career advice across a wide range of markets within the financial services sector.
We are located in the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) which gives us unrivalled access to onshore Middle Eastern clients and candidates. We also partner with clients in London, Zurich, Geneva, Zug, Frankfurt and Paris and have been instrumental in establishing onshore Middle Eastern and Emerging Market teams.
We believe in building long-term relationships with our clients helping them develop successful, sustainable businesses. Transparency, trust and discretion drive the way in which we mediate between clients and candidates and ensure we consistently deliver results.
SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Clarendon Parker Bahrain
UAE-Dubai, UAE
The Role
To promote the Company with clients and actively solicit and secure new businesses and proposals. 1. Reviews contracts as required. 2. Checks externally produced policy documents. 3. Have a good working knowledge of the insurance products available, insurance trading conditions, the Company’s products and services. 4. Handles all technical queries effectively. 5. Highlights the specifics of the warranties, terms and conditions to clients. 6. Contributes to a successful audit score. 7. Demonstrate regulatory knowledge. 8. Demonstrates detailed knowledge and understanding of the insurance market, insurance principles and the ability to apply them in the day to day activities. 9. Demonstrates detailed understanding of more complex product features, benefits, exclusions, warranties and their application to various situations. 10. Tailors product offering to client’s needs. 11. Demonstrates an understanding of the concept of risk and how variables can affect the client, decisions in all classes of business. 12. Demonstrates proficiency in the use of the Company’s systems and processes to fulfill role. 13. Develops and maintains a strong relationship with the client and the market. 14. Effectively manages the clients’ portfolios. 15. Actively develops new business opportunities. 16. Maximizes cross selling opportunities where possible. 17. Prepares a prospect list of potential new clients. 18. Identifies and develops prospective clients. 19. Adheres to the contents of the Operating Procedures Manual (OPM) and the Company’s overall internal procedures and policies. 20. Nil E&Os. 21. Miscellaneous tasks within the scope of work, as assigned by the direct manager.
Requirements
Attention to detail Analytical thinking Communication skills Customer focus Decision making Negotiation skills University degree 5 years’ experience Diploma CII MS Office; Computer Literate.
About the Company
Established in 1996, Clarendon Parker Bahrain is an International Recruitment Specialist Consultancy based in Bahrains Seef Business District. We specialise in mid to senior level professional, managerial, technical recruitment and staffing solutions in Bahrain and beyond. Our multinational team of consultants are experienced professionals within the fields they represent. Each consultant brings strong industry links and knowledge to better understand your business requirements. We know the market and we know our candidates!
Our team of dedicated consultants specialise in the following industries:
Accounting, Finance & Banking Logistics & Customer Service Secretarial & Administration Human Resources & Recruitment Engineering & Construction IT/Telecom Marketing & PR Oil and Gas
The current range of services includes permanent and temporary recruitment, recruitment advertising campaigns, employee satisfaction surveys, state-of-the-art web-based recruitment technology and HR consulting services relating to recruitment processes and activities.
Data Engineer
du telecom
Dubai, UAE
The Role
The purpose of this position is to provide architectural leadership in design and implementation of data products that can produce actionable insights which third parties will be willing to pay for. Responsible for developing, integrating and automating the data collection and processing pipelines all the way to visualization and user experience. Ensuring all developments (even for PoC or prototypes) can be scaled up and taken to operations in a short period so that time to market is reduced. Pursuing technical excellence and flexibility of the products implemented, enabling a lean approach that can reduce the time to market and ensure that customer requirements are always Proactively contribute to the efforts in building a single unified data products architecture. Taking the data architectural lead with the multiple virtual teams required for implementing end-to-end commercial use cases, that will be part of du's Big Data portfolio.
Requirements
Minimum experience: o Total work experience to be at least 9 years. o Experience (at least 4 years) in a similar capacity (preferably within a Telco). Proven experience leading technical teams. o Strong record in building data products and models that have gone all the way from prototype to beta to operations (both in near-real time and batch scenarios). o Comfortable developing world-class software that transforms analytical models into a scalable service. o Lean and scientific mentality. Strong orientation to solving real customer problems. o Must demonstrate a deep knowledge of distributed processing techniques and engines (preferably Spark). o Excellent coding skills both in the Object-Oriented and Functional paradigms (Scala/Java). o Strong skills working with spatio-temporal data and GIS technologies such as QGIS, Google Maps and ArcGIS. Geospatial libraries (Geotools, JTS) and Coordinate Reference Systems (WGS84, UTM). o Ability to effectively plot complex and multi-dimensional datasets (involving spatial and temporal features) and to visualize end-customer insights so that they are ready to be consumed by non-technical audiences. o Hands-on experience with dashboarding tools (Qlikview, Microstrategy, Tableau). o Comfortable with SQL, relational DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and MPPs (Teradata, Greenplum). Spatial extensions (PostGIS). o Good understanding of the main components in any Hadoop deployment (HDFS, YARN, NoSQL databases, data access components, workflow scheduling, cloud management and monitoring, etc). Minimum education: o Minimum Masters Degree, preferably in Computer Science.
About the Company
du is the new telecommunication services provider in the UAE. We are an integrated service provider offering voice, data, video and content services over fixed and mobile networks to residential and business customers.
du has three broad target segments:
Consumers: Focusing on individuals and households by offering mobile and fixed voice calling, Internet, data services and television. Businesses: Focusing on small to very large corporations and government agencies by offering integrated fixed and mobile business solutions including voice, data, content and applications as well as professional services.
Carriers: Focusing on providing carrier, international data networks and wholesale services to international operators, multinational corporations and telecom carriers.
The needs of our customers are our primary focus. Our aim is to provide new and innovative services that deliver a better customer experience. MORE DETAILS AND APPLY