Analyst

Supports a growth-equity fund's deal execution across MENA-headquartered tech, fintech, healthtech, and consumer growth companies, typically ticket sizes of $5–50m at Series B–D. The Analyst is the modelling backbone for diligence, drafts the investment memo, runs market sizing and competitive benchmarking, and supports portfolio-monitoring KPIs across SaaS metrics, unit economics, and cohort behaviour. Direct exposure to founders, board observers, and senior diligence calls is common.

Dubai's growth-equity market expanded materially through 2024–2025 as DIFC and ADGM-domiciled funds launched targeting MENA tech and consumer growth. The Analyst pool with both growth-equity (rather than buyout) skill set and MENA market knowledge is small, most regional candidates trained in IB or buyout PE need explicit growth-stage retraining. Comp tracks London and Singapore growth-equity Analyst levels with the Dubai tax-free uplift.

• 1–3 years experience in IB, top-tier consulting, growth-equity, or VC
• Top undergraduate degree (LSE, Imperial, Wharton, INSEAD undergrad pipeline common)
• Strong financial modelling plus comfort with SaaS metrics, cohort analysis, and unit economics
• English essential; Arabic helpful for portfolio-company exposure

50–65 hours typical with deal-period peaks. Sunday-Thursday workweek. Significant remote diligence work given distributed MENA portfolio.

Annual cash bonus 30–80% of base. Carry rare at Analyst grade. Co-invest opportunity sometimes available at fund close.

Dubai-based Analysts at growth-equity funds get more direct deal exposure than equivalent grades at London or Singapore funds because team sizes are smaller. Trade-off: deal volume per year is lower, and the proportion of bilateral (founder-led) processes is higher than auction processes.

The 2024 and 2025 vintages of MENA-focused growth funds (multi-stage MEASA strategies launched out of DIFC and ADGM) raised aggregate capital exceeding $3bn, driving Analyst-grade hiring across the region. Several portfolio realisations in 2025 (Series E up-rounds, strategic exits to global tech buyers) re-anchored Analyst comp expectations upward.