Business Development Manager (Financial Solutions)

🌟 We’re Hiring: Business Development Manager (Financial Solutions)

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Part-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a financial-solutions organization focused on helping businesses and clients access practical, innovative, and value-driven financial products and services. Our teams combine financial expertise, relationship management, market intelligence, and consultative business development to create sustainable commercial opportunities.

We value integrity, client trust, commercial discipline, innovation, and long-term relationships. We are looking for a commercially driven professional who can identify opportunities, develop strategic partnerships, and connect client needs with suitable financial solutions.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Development Manager (Financial Solutions) to lead business-development activities, build strategic client relationships, generate new opportunities, and support revenue growth across financial products and services.

The ideal candidate has strong financial-services knowledge, consultative sales expertise, excellent relationship-building skills, and the ability to engage confidently with corporate clients, investors, financial institutions, business owners, and senior decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute business-development strategies for financial products and solutions.
  • Identify, qualify, and prioritize new business opportunities across target markets and customer segments.
  • Build and maintain relationships with corporate clients, investors, financial institutions, intermediaries, and strategic partners.
  • Conduct client consultations to understand business objectives, financial requirements, challenges, and risk considerations.
  • Present appropriate financial solutions based on approved products, client needs, and organizational capabilities.
  • Manage the full business-development cycle from prospecting and qualification through proposal, negotiation, onboarding, and relationship development.
  • Build and maintain a healthy sales pipeline while tracking opportunities, activities, conversion rates, and revenue potential.
  • Prepare business proposals, solution presentations, commercial offers, account plans, and client briefing materials.
  • Conduct market research and monitor financial-services trends, competitor offerings, pricing, and emerging opportunities.
  • Identify cross-selling, upselling, referral, partnership, and strategic-account opportunities.
  • Develop relationships with consultants, brokers, advisors, corporate partners, professional networks, and approved referral channels.
  • Coordinate with product, finance, compliance, risk, legal, operations, and customer-service teams to deliver client solutions.
  • Ensure prospective and existing clients complete required onboarding, KYC, documentation, and approval processes.
  • Work closely with compliance and risk teams to ensure business-development activities follow applicable regulations and internal policies.
  • Monitor revenue, client acquisition, conversion, retention, and other business-development KPIs.
  • Prepare regular pipeline, revenue, market, client, and business-development reports for management.
  • Maintain accurate customer and opportunity information in CRM systems.
  • Conduct client meetings, presentations, networking activities, webinars, industry events, and other business-development initiatives.
  • Develop account-growth strategies for high-value and strategically important clients.
  • Monitor client satisfaction and proactively identify opportunities to strengthen relationships and retention.
  • Analyze market feedback and communicate client insights to product and management teams.
  • Identify potential risks, conflicts, regulatory concerns, or unsuitable business opportunities and escalate them appropriately.
  • Maintain strict confidentiality of client information, financial data, commercial terms, and business strategies.
  • Support management with market-entry initiatives, strategic partnerships, financial-product projects, and other commercial activities.
  • Follow company policies, financial-services regulations, compliance requirements, ethical standards, and data-protection procedures.
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Banking, Marketing, or a related field is preferred.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in business development, financial services, banking, wealth management, fintech, corporate finance, or related fields is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of financial products, commercial finance, banking services, investment concepts, or financial solutions.
  • Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
  • Strong consultative selling, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-management abilities.
  • Proven ability to identify prospects, develop pipelines, close opportunities, and grow client relationships.
  • Strong commercial awareness and ability to understand complex client requirements.
  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience using CRM systems, sales analytics, and business-development reporting tools.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, or similar CRM platforms is advantageous.
  • Knowledge of KYC, AML, suitability, financial regulation, and compliance requirements is advantageous.
  • UAE or MENA financial-services and business-development experience is advantageous.
  • Existing relationships with corporate clients, financial institutions, investors, or professional intermediaries are advantageous.
  • Experience in banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, payments, fintech, lending, or investment services is advantageous.
  • CFA, ACCA, CIMA, FRM, CAMS, or other relevant professional certifications are advantageous but not required.
What We Offer
  • Flexible part-time working opportunities within a professional financial-services and business-development environment.
  • Competitive compensation aligned with experience, commercial performance, and financial-services expertise.
  • Opportunity to develop expertise across financial solutions, strategic partnerships, client acquisition, relationship management, and commercial strategy.
  • Exposure to financial markets, fintech solutions, corporate clients, investment-related services, and regional business opportunities.
  • Professional development opportunities and continuous learning in financial products, consultative selling, negotiation, compliance, and strategic business development.
  • A performance-driven and collaborative environment where integrity, client trust, commercial growth, innovation, professionalism, and long-term relationships are highly valued.
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