Michael Page
AVP – Credit Execution
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 26/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
11/04/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Director
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
26/05/2026
Job description
The AVP – Credit Execution role within a leading international financial institution in Dubai focuses on supporting and leading the execution of complex corporate finance and credit transactions across multiple product lines. The role involves managing approximately 15–20 financing transactions annually, coordinating across front-office teams, credit, legal, and operations functions to ensure timely and accurate deal execution. The position requires direct client interaction to gather information, clarify transaction structures, and coordinate documentation requirements. It also involves preparing financial analysis, supporting credit approval processes, and assisting in negotiation of commercial terms in collaboration with senior bankers and legal counsel. The role includes managing cross-border transactions with regional and international offices while ensuring compliance with internal credit policies, regulatory requirements, and risk frameworks. This position provides exposure to complex multi-product corporate finance deals and requires strong understanding of banking products, credit processes, and transaction lifecycle management.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- The AVP – Credit Execution is responsible for supporting and leading the execution of 15–20 corporate finance and financing transactions annually, ensuring timely completion and alignment with internal credit and risk frameworks.
- The role involves working closely with front-office banking teams to develop transaction proposals, credit applications, and supporting documentation for approval processes across multiple financial products.
- The position requires engaging directly with clients to collect transaction information, clarify deal structures, and coordinate documentation requirements with legal, credit, and operations teams.
- The role includes managing end-to-end transaction timelines by coordinating across internal departments such as legal, credit risk, operations, and product teams to ensure smooth execution of financing deals.
- The AVP supports negotiation of key commercial terms in financial documentation in collaboration with senior bankers and external legal counsel to ensure favorable transaction outcomes.
- The role requires preparing detailed financial analysis and supporting credit approval documentation, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with institutional risk policies.
- The position involves coordinating cross-border transactions with regional and international offices, ensuring consistency in execution and compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
- The role ensures adherence to internal credit policies, risk management frameworks, and regulatory standards across all transaction execution activities.
Experience & skills
- Candidates must have experience in executing corporate finance transactions within a major financial institution, with strong exposure to credit processes and transaction banking activities.
- A bachelor’s degree or higher is required, along with strong analytical and interpersonal skills suitable for a client-facing credit execution role.
- Strong understanding of corporate finance products including loans, derivatives, trade finance, risk solutions, and M&A-related transactions is required.
- Candidates must demonstrate strong financial analysis and credit analysis skills, including experience in financial modelling and transaction evaluation.
- The role requires the ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously under tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy and compliance with credit policies.
- Strong communication skills are required, including experience interacting with clients and coordinating with external legal counsel and internal stakeholders.
- Candidates should have solid grounding in corporate finance theory, transaction documentation, and banking credit approval processes, with sector exposure being an advantage.