Business Development Analyst

Analyst Business Development

Al Etihad Payments empowers employees to work in an environment that best promotes their productivity and well-being, while providing high-quality workplace and fantastic professional experience.

Get to Know Us

Al Etihad Payments is the UAE’s designated retail payments entity, dedicated to developing and operating world-class infrastructure, standards, and solutions for the UAE Economy. Al Etihad Payments is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, strongly supported by the UAE Government.

Our employees are committed to work with licensed financial institutions and other payment service providers to foster innovation and deliver excellent financial services to all in the UAE, efficiently and without friction.

Al Etihad Payments supports the government’s objectives of a cashless society, national digitization, and the Central Bank of the UAE objective of being a top ten central bank globally.

Our Culture

We are a collaborative, diverse and passionate group of individuals that works as one team. We support one another, make impactful contributions to the organization, and develop and nurture meaningful connections across the payment’s ecosystem!

About the role

Business Development Analyst plays an active role engaging with existing and prospective financial institutions related to Aani and other payments products. He/she attracts new financial institutions to the platform and ensures the participants are onboarded with necessary guidance in-place.

Responsibilities

1. Support the implementation of business development strategy to ensure a high level of adoption across potential participants.
2. Build and nurture relationships with potential partners, financial institutions, and relevant industry players.
3. Drive all the analyses and insight generation for driving business development agenda.
4. Support the on-boarding process (e.g., schedules, testing, training, etc.).
5. Develop market intelligence/knowledge on financial institutions’ needs and coordinate with relevant teams to create capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 3-5 years of work experience, preferably with at least 2 years of experience in Business Development and Account Management.
2. Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in any field.
3. Previous experience in payments is a plus.
4. Strong fluency in Arabic is a must.

Technical and Behavioral Skills

1. Flexible, positive and results-oriented attitude, works well with changing timelines and priorities and can proactively manage up.
2. Ability to gather and synthesize complex information, make sound tactical decisions, and communicate such information in a clear, simple way to a variety of audiences, ranging from senior executives to working-level analysts and technical specialists.
3. Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple activities with both internal and external stakeholders.
4. Professional fluency in written and spoken English.

What you can expect from us

1. Modern work environment with level of flexibility.
2. Dynamic and motivated team of colleagues working towards achieving UAE National Objectives.
3. Competitive compensation package, including annual bonus and additional benefits like child educational allowance and annual flight tickets (where eligible).
4. Comprehensive health insurance coverage.