Director, Finance & Corporate Development
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About the Role
Algebra AI seeks a Director of Finance & Corporate Development to own both finance operations and the acquisition strategy. This builder role involves sourcing and executing M&A deals in UAE/MENA professional services, building financial infrastructure, and managing investor reporting.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Own the acquisition pipeline: source, screen, and prioritize targets in UAE/MENA professional services
- Run end to end diligence on acquisition targets (financial, operational, commercial)
- Structure and negotiate deals including valuation, deal mechanics, seller financing, earnouts
- Build and maintain the vertical strategy framework for market entry
- Manage relationships with acquisition targets, advisors, and financing partners
- Own post close integration planning and handoff to operations
- Own management accounts, cash flow forecasting, and monthly reporting
- Build financial infrastructure: reporting, controls, and processes
- Manage cap table, funding mechanics, and tranche conditions with investors
- Support board and investor reporting with financial summaries, KPIs, and scenario modeling
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across corporate development, M&A advisory, or private equity
- Experience running a deal end to end from sourcing through close
- Strong financial modeling skills to build a deal model from scratch
- Understanding of professional services businesses: valuation, retention, post close integration
- Comfortable operating without a team
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Based in Dubai or willing to relocate
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About Algebra
- Algebra builds and operates AI powered workflows for mid market companies as a managed service.
- We identify high value operational processes, design AI systems to run them, and own the outcome end to end.
- We are not consultants. We do not sell software licenses. We are the accountable operator.
The Role
- This is a builder role with no team below you.
- You will own two things equally: the finance operations of the business, and the corporate development function that drives our acquisition strategy.
- The corp dev half is the higher leverage half: identify acquisition targets, run diligence, structure deals, and help integrate what we buy.
- You will also own the framework for which verticals Algebra should enter and how.
Corporate Development
- Own the acquisition pipeline source, screen, and prioritize targets in UAE/MENA professional services (accounting, tax, compliance, payroll, legal, corporate secretarial).
- Run end to end diligence on acquisition targets financial, operational, and commercial.
- Structure and negotiate deals valuation, deal mechanics, seller financing, earnouts, and retention mechanisms.
- Build and maintain the vertical strategy framework which markets Algebra should enter, in what order, and why.
- Manage relationships with acquisition targets, advisors, and financing partners.
- Own post close integration planning and handoff to operations.
Finance Operations
- Own the management accounts, cash flow forecasting, and monthly reporting across Algebra and acquired entities.
- Build the financial infrastructure as the business scales reporting, controls, and processes.
- Manage the cap table, funding mechanics, and tranche conditions with investors.
- Support board and investor reporting financial summaries, KPIs, and scenario modeling.
- Own the finance layer of any acquisition structuring, post close reporting integration, and entity consolidation.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience across corporate development, M&A advisory, or private equity with at least some of that in MENA.
- You have run a deal end to end, not just supported one from sourcing through close.
- Strong financial modeling skills you can build a deal model from scratch, not just update one.
- You understand professional services businesses: how they are valued, what drives retention, and what breaks post close.
- You are comfortable operating without a team this is not a delegation role.
- You write and communicate clearly; you can explain a deal structure to a founder and a financial model to an investor.
- Based in Dubai or willing to relocate.
Bonus Points
- You have worked inside a roll up platform or multi entity holding structure.
- You have exposure to UAE regulatory environment corporate tax, VAT, WPS, or DIFC/ADGM entity structures.
- You have run the finance function of an early stage business, not just advised one.
- You have a network in UAE/MENA professional services accountants, tax advisors, compliance firms.
What This Role Is Not
- This is not a strategy consulting role. We are not building frameworks that sit in decks.
- This is not a corporate finance role where someone else owns the decisions.
- If your best work is inside a large institution with deep support structures, this is probably not the right fit.
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