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Ooredoo Group of Companies

<div>Context 
OFT is an innovative and dynamic scale-up fintech company. We offer the heritage and stability of a hugely successful founding group combined with the unlimited ambition and passion of a talented team building intuitive, secure and convenient money management and payment tools for everyday people. The company operates digital wallet and payment services, including remittances, card transactions, airtime top-ups, and payroll flows. Maintaining customer trust, regulatory license adherence, and financial resilience is critical. The business currently operates in 3 countries (Qatar, Oman and Maldives) and it is building in 3 additional countries (Iraq, Tunisia, Kuwait).
The CFO provides end-to-end leadership across financial reporting, FP&amp;A, financial operations, regulatory reporting, and audit, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and scalability in a fast-paced fintech environment. The business is run with a highly centralised operating model, and high reusability of centrally defined process, systems and procedures. Working with us presents a unique and exciting opportunity to make a difference and be part of a revolution where we are leveraging financial technology to provide accessible, empowering tools to consumer and merchants.
Purpose 
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for the overall financial stewardship of the Ooredoo Fintech. The role ensures robust financial governance, regulatory compliance, sustainable growth, and value creation while supporting the company's expansion, product innovation, and operational scale.
The CFO will oversee the financial strategy, reporting, financial operations, regulatory engagement, and risk management, ensuring strong controls over customer funds, settlements, and financial data. The CFO acts as a trusted advisor to the CEO, Board, and regulators and supports evidence‑based decision‑making through high‑quality financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis.
Role Accountabilities 
Financial Strategy:<ul><li>
Define and execute the company's financial strategy aligned with business objectives, growth plans, and regulatory requirements.</li></ul><ul><li>
Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive leadership, providing financial insights to support decision-making, product expansion, and market entry.</li><li>
Lead long-term financial planning, capital allocation, and investment prioritization</li></ul>
Financial Governance &amp; Reporting:<ul><li>
Oversee IFRS-compliant financial reporting, including management accounts, board reporting, and statutory financial statements.</li><li>
Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes.</li><li>
Maintain governance frameworks policies and audit readiness.</li></ul>
Regulatory &amp; Compliance:<ul><li>
Serve as the primary finance liaison with regulators (e.g., Central Bank / QCB), auditors, and external stakeholders.</li><li>
Ensure full compliance with regulatory reporting, licence conditions, safeguarding of customer funds, and PSP/fintech regulations.</li><li>
Oversee finance-related AML/FCC controls in collaboration with Risk and Compliance teams.</li></ul>
Finance Operations:<ul><li>
Provide executive oversight of financial operations, including reconciliations, settlement funding, escrow accounts, and partner settlements.</li><li>
Manage liquidity planning, cash forecasting, settlements, escrow accounts and foreign exchange exposure management.</li><li>
Maintain robust controls over customer funds, settlement SLAs, and fund segregation.</li></ul>
FP&amp;A, Performance &amp; Value Creation:<ul><li>
Lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes.</li><li>
Translate complex transaction and financial data into clear insights, KPIs, and dashboards for senior management and the Board.</li><li>
Monitor unit economics, product profitability, and cost efficiency to support sustainable growth.</li></ul>
Systems, Automation &amp; Transformation:<ul><li>
Champion financial systems modernization, automation, and data analytics to improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.</li><li>
Partner with Technology and Product teams to enhance reporting, reconciliation tools, and financial architecture.</li></ul>
Team Leadership &amp; Development:<ul><li>
Build, lead, and retain a high-performing finance leadership team across reporting, operations, and FP&amp;A.</li><li>
Develop succession planning and capability-building within the finance function.</li><li>
Manage relationships with banks, payment partners, auditors, investors, and group stakeholders</li></ul>
Systems, Automation &amp; Transformation<ul><li>
Champion financial systems modernization, automation, and data analytics to improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.</li><li>
Partner with Technology and Product teams to enhance reporting, reconciliation and financial architecture.</li></ul>
Experience Required<ul><li> 
15+ years qualified experience.</li><li>
Proven track record in building and leading finance functions from scratch</li><li>
Proven experience engaging with regulators, central banks, auditors, and boards.</li></ul><ul><li>
Strong end-to-end knowledge of IFRS reporting, financial operations and FP&amp;A.</li><li>
Experience of working in a high growth environment.</li><li>
Currently in a senior finance leadership role, such as Head of Finance or Finance Director, with demonstrated experience in managing finance teams.</li></ul></div>

Chief Financial Officer (Fintech)

<div>Our business landscape 
We're an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region's leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group's strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:<ul><li>
Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.</li><li>
Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.</li><li>
Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.</li><li>
People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.</li><li>
Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.</li></ul>
From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you're looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.
Job overview<ul><li> 
Main purpose of this role is to lead M&amp;A projects or work streams, develop and prepare business models , valuation analysis, and recommendations for the purpose of M&amp;A transactions</li><li>
Supports the full lifecycle of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures</li><li>
This role involves financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and integration planning.</li><li>
The role holder acts as an extension of the project owner, ensuring content leadership, rigorous execution, and end‑to‑end delivery across multiple workstreams.</li></ul>
Your impact on our goals<ul><li> 
Supports the full lifecycle of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures,</li><li>
This role involves financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and integration planning.</li><li>
Works closely with Strategy, Finance, and Legal teams to assess opportunities, execute transactions, and ensure alignment with the organization's strategic objectives.</li><li>
The deal size and hence decision impact for Ooredoo can vary from below 50 Million USD to multiple billion USD transactions.</li><li>
Transaction types can vary from JV, Carve outs buy side and sell side</li></ul>
Deal Sourcing &amp; Evaluation<ul><li>
Identify and evaluate potential acquisition or divestment opportunities aligned with strategic priorities.</li><li>
 Conduct market, competitor, and sector research to support deal origination.</li><li>
 Maintain relationships with investment banks, advisors, and industry contacts.</li></ul>
Financial Analysis &amp; Valuation<ul><li>
Develop detailed financial models to assess valuation, synergies, and returns (DCF, precedent transactions, comparable companies, , etc.).</li><li>
 Build and Support scenario analyses, sensitivities, and value creation modeling.</li><li>
 Prepare and review investment cases and presentations for senior management and board approval.</li></ul>
Due Diligence &amp; Execution<ul><li>
Coordinate internal and external due diligence (financial, legal, tax, commercial, operational).</li><li>
Collaborate with advisors, consultants, and internal experts to identify and mitigate risks.</li><li>
Assist in drafting term sheets, letters of intent, and transaction documentation.</li><li>
Provide commercial input for SPA</li><li>
Support negotiation of key deal terms and closing conditions.</li></ul>
Integration &amp; Post-Deal Support<ul><li>
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth post-merger integration.</li><li>
Track performance of acquired entities against the business case and synergy targets.</li><li>
 Support divestment or restr</li><li>
Manage specific M&amp;A transactions or work streams in M&amp;A transactions</li></ul>
Executive Communication &amp; Stakeholder Engagement<ul><li>
Prepare executive-level presentations, Board papers, and investor communications related to strategic projects .</li><li>
Communicate complex strategic topics succinctly to senior executives, shareholders, and external partners.</li><li>
Represent the department in cross-organizational discussions with senior management and external stakeholders.</li><li>
Key member of M&amp;A team and will be involved with the Board approval process. Supports the overall recommendation to Group Management Committee, the Investment Sub Committee, the Executive Committee and the Board on business development opportunities.</li><li>
Responsible for the business planning element of Ooredoo's business development projects. These are high intensity and extremely complex processes working to compressed time frames in a competitive environment with clear performance outcomes.</li></ul>
Experience 
Experience<ul><li>
15 years' experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified</li><li>
Experience in multiple M&amp;A or transaction related projects in the past with experience and knowledge of valuations, deal financial structuring and supporting price negotiations.</li><li>
Business planning experience and knowledge critical with strong foundation in valuation techniques including DCF, comparable based models, private vs. public valuations, IPOs and private equity analyses.</li><li>
Deep expertise in business valuation for public and private business</li><li>
Strong knowledge of telecom market developments, financials and industry trends including wireless technologies, wireline technologies and infrastructure assets.</li><li>
Able to synthesize business modelling and telecom industry knowledge to create financial models together with recommendations and succinct, clear summary presentations to key decision makers in Ooredoo.</li><li>
Experience running end to end M&amp;A processes</li></ul></div>

Associate Director, M&A Projects

<div>Our business landscape 
We're an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region's leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group's strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:<ul><li>
Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech.</li><li>
Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.</li><li>
Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.</li><li>
People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.</li><li>
Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.</li></ul>
From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you're looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.
Job overview<ul><li> 
This role is responsible for managing end to end Source to Settle activities for the assigned portfolio which primarily consists of indirect spend, such as consulting services, recruitment services, legal, finance and tax advisory services, creative agencies, media and production etc.</li><li>
This role also implies supporting Associate Director, SRM, Demand and Contract management with the activities related to:<ul><li>
Annual Group-wide supplier performance management</li><li>
Demand consolidation and analysis</li></ul></li></ul>
Your impact on our goals<ul><li> 
Sourcing and procurement / Source to Settle:<ul><li>
Contributes into the overall Ooredoo strategic sourcing mission of the department. 
Ensures execution of savings targets and related action plans for assigned categories.</li><li>
Liaises with relevant functions to receive sourcing requests and ensures they are implemented swiftly and accurately.</li><li>
Develops sourcing strategy, secures alignment with business units and secures necessary approvals.</li><li>
Manages all up-stream activities including RFx process, vendor negotiation and contract finalization in conjunction with the superior.</li><li>
Ensures timely and accurate completion of all downstream activities i.e. validation of Purchase Requisitions and issuance of preparation of Purchase Orders.</li><li>
Ensures all activities follow the prescribed governance and maintains the highest standards of transparency and fairness.</li><li>
Manages the reporting requirement for the function and tracks compliance.</li><li>
Constantly seeks to update own knowledge and that of others within the department in relation to industry standards for Strategic Sourcing of high value products or services.</li><li>
Establishes and manages category strategies within the assigned domains</li><li>
Supports the day-to-day operations in line with the required standards of Ooredoo to deliver the highest level of service to internal customers whilst at the same time building supplier relationships to ensure that Ooredoo's suppliers become long term business partners.</li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>
Supplier performance management<ul><li>
Preparation of the data for the annual supplier performance evaluation and action planning</li><li>
Reporting and cadence management, action tracking on the supplier improvement actions</li><li>
Continuous review of the framework of SPM in the Group and identification of areas for improvement as well as action planning</li></ul></li><li>
Demand management<ul><li>
Consolidation of the demand inputs from Ooredoo entities</li><li>
Review of the submissions and analysis for potential areas of efficiency and consolidation at Group level</li></ul></li><li>
Other<ul><li>
Supports overall team with the reporting requirements (monthly, quarterly reports on the key procurement and sourcing KPIs)</li></ul></li></ul> 
Experience<ul><li> 
5-8 years' experience in a similar role.</li><li>
Experience in a Strategic Sourcing function within an indirect spend portfolio, ideally, within a telecom organization.</li><li>
An expert at developing costing models as per the requirements and able to develop detailed commercial analysis across supplier offers.</li><li>
Adept negotiation and communication skills.</li><li>
Must have in-depth understanding of key Contractual terms and ability to successfully negotiate independently with suppliers.</li><li>
Experienced in use of various upstream and downstream procurement systems (SAP Ariba, Oracle)</li><li>
Experience with analytical dashboards</li></ul></div>

Specialist, OG Procurement and Sourcing

<div>The Company 
Ooredoo is an organisation on the move. Thanks to our dedicated employees, we continue to move closer towards our vision to be among the top 20 telecommunications companies in the world .
We are a dynamic global telecommunications player operating in 17 countries across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Asia. We cover a population of more than half a billion people and serve more than 68 million customers.
In Kuwait, we employ approximately 1,000 talented people, all of whom are driving Ooredoo to be the number one choice for world-class communications services in Kuwait. In the face of intensifying competition, increasingly sophisticated technology and rising customer expectations, nothing is more important to our success than our team - and it's a team that you can be part of.
Ooredoo's future is bright, and you can be part of our ongoing success.
The Role 
<ul>
<li>Responsible for understanding and analyzing business requirements and converting them into technical requirements and providing end to end solution.
</li><li>Technology Single Point of Contact with business units to understand the requirements and provide optimum solutions in cost effective and improved time to market.
</li><li>Responsible to facilitate all Digital Initiatives of the company
</li><li>Responsible to adapt Agile and DevOps concepts to improve Time to Market
</li><li>Responsible to communicate the feasibility and cost estimate to business unit based on the requirements.
</li><li>Responsible for solution Design and implementation for Digital platforms (Mobile App, Portal) middleware and associated IT nodes.
</li><li>Responsible for Business as Usual task and Change Request within the agreed SLA.
</li><li>Responsible for ADM vendor management, communicate the business requirements and technical scope, approve the end to end solution (HLD &amp; LLD), optimize man days effort.
</li></ul><ul><li>The position has different qualifications as mentioned in the &ldquo;Qualification&rdquo; section, in which we will be selecting upon hiring exercise.
</li></ul>Key Accountabilities and Activities<ul><li> 
Understand the business requirements and perform feasibility study and provide feedback to the stakeholders with appropriate solution and recommendation with Time To Market (TTM)</li><li>
Support and coordinate with all stakeholders to align with the expected business unit requirements.</li><li>
Manage technical deliverables right from new products/services feasibility study to implementation, based on business unit's requirements.</li><li>
Communicate with the ADM (Application and Development Management) vendor the priority and requirement pipeline to manage resource capacity.</li><li>
Convert the business requirements to functional/technical requirements to prepare feasibility study &amp; High Level Design (HLD)</li><li>
Responsible for developing cost analyses, design considerations, and implementation time-lines.</li><li>
Agree with the ADM vendor on the complexity level of the solution and expected man days.</li></ul><ul><li>
Responsible to manage relationships with ADM vendor and technology partner to align technology capabilities to support marketing/product needs</li><li>
Manage and co-ordinate the inter-departmental functionalities and communications between the Technology and Business Teams within Ooredoo Kuwait for realizing strategic service/product launches.</li><li>
Manage and drive the SLA/KPI for ADM and highlights project issues to higher management and provides recommendations for improvements</li><li>
Responsible for setting up acceptance criteria and post development/deployment check of feature/products.</li><li>
Responsible for quality check and performance KPI for delivered products to business units with supporting documents.</li><li>
Responsible for seeking approval from Design and Control (DAC) &amp; Change Approval Board for smooth deployment.</li><li>
Responsible for solution delivery timeline, performance, SLA management, and Quality control of all solution deliveries which will be covered with all testing phases until UAT and regression testing</li><li>
Discuss or Validate on the business requirement for the requested BAU's/TMO's and assign it to vendors and make sure it should be delivered as per business requirement.</li><li>
Responsible to capture Configuration Management changes and proper documentation.</li><li>
Supervise System integration/ Functional testing &amp; Deployment to UAT environment.</li><li>
Assists the management in developing and implementing procedures and standards that will improve efficiency</li><li>
Bringing in cost saving measure by Identifying and implementing measures to ensure future proof solution within budget.</li><li>
Responsible for Vendor management.</li></ul><ul><li>
Contribute in motivating colleagues and peers, providing assistance wherever necessary.</li><li>
Provides leadership in facilitating the activities of the project team. Works with the team and other stakeholders to establish project goals and priorities.</li><li>
Promote an equitable, positive and respectful work environment that values cultural and diversity among all employees</li></ul><ul><li>
Proactively, takes responsibility for self-improvement by staying well-informed of developments, knowledge and innovations in relevant field of expertise</li><li>
Proactively, able to work independently, possesses creative problem solving skills and able to work in a dynamic and challenging environment</li><li>
Represents Technology in the development of any frameworks related to Demand and Delivery Management and process.</li><li>
Guide and supervise the project members and facilitate all the needs to be able to deliver the project on time.</li><li>
Other duties as directed by the head of Demand &amp; Delivery management</li><li>
Aligning any new project or implementation &amp; Roadmap for Ooredoo group with respective strategy department.</li><li>
Advance working knowledge Siebel CRM and extensive knowledge in CRM concepts.</li><li>
Design and define end-to-end Siebel CRM architecture for Telecom solutions (BSS/OSS landscape)</li><li>
Lead solution architecture for Siebel implementations along with integrations to other BSS nodes</li><li>
 Translate business requirements into scalable Siebel solution designs</li></ul><ul><li>
Provide architectural guidance on:</li><li>
Siebel Telecom Data Model</li><li>
Product, Order Management, Asset Management, Billing integrations</li><li>
Design and oversee integration architecture using:</li><li>
EAI, EIM, Web Services, REST/SOAP</li><li>
Middleware (Oracle SOA, OIC, Kafka, etc.)</li><li>
Define performance, security, and scalability standards</li><li>
Lead technical design reviews and vendor governance</li><li>
Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and enterprise architects</li><li>
Support production issues, performance tuning, and root cause analysis</li><li>
Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture and telecom best practices</li></ul>
Qualifications<ul><li> 
Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication/Computer/ Electronics Engineering or related discipline and appropriate registrations with recognized professional institute.</li><li>
Degree shall be duly approved by Kuwait Society of Engineers (Not required for Non-Engineers)</li><li>
Should be certified in Oracle SOA</li><li>
Trained in DevOps tools and Agile Methodologies</li><li>
Siebel certification(s)</li><li>
TOGAF or other architecture certification</li><li>
Experience with Siebel to Cloud CRM migration</li><li>
Exposure to Agile / SAFe methodologies</li></ul></div>

Senior Engineer Demand & Delivery Management

<div>The Company 
Ooredoo is an organisation on the move. Thanks to our dedicated employees, we continue to move closer towards our vision to be among the top 20 telecommunications companies in the world.
We are a dynamic global telecommunications player operating in 17 countries across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Asia. We cover a population of more than half a billion people and serve more than 68 million customers.
In Kuwait, we employ approximately 1,000 talented people, all of whom are driving Ooredoo to be the number one choice for world-class communications services in Kuwait. In the face of intensifying competition, increasingly sophisticated technology and rising customer expectations, nothing is more important to our success than our team &ndash; and it's a team that you can be part of.
Ooredoo's future is bright, and you can be part of our ongoing success.
The Purpose<ul><li> 
Plan, direct and control the SOC functions and operations. Ensure the monitoring and analysis of incidents to protect local and customers' environment, addressing all security incidents and ensuring timely escalation.</li></ul>
Key Accountabilties &amp; Responsiblities<ul><li> 
Responsible for the infrastructure availability</li><li>
Accountable to meet customers' SLAs</li><li>
Interface with Third-party/internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery to B2B customers</li><li>
Primarily responsible for directing security event monitoring, management and response and cyber intelligence</li><li>
Ensuring incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation, and monitoring</li><li>
Ensuring threat management, threat modelling, and developing use cases for security monitoring</li><li>
First point of contact to escalate SOC operational requests/incidents</li><li>
Responsible for new processes and procedures creations/ initiations</li><li>
Maintain SOC operational processes and procedures, review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs</li><li>
Take leadership role and help the NOC/SOC engineers with their work and assignments</li><li>
Schedule and manage the workload of the team and ensure optimum use of resources.</li><li>
Work to improve employee performance through personal coaching and identifying training and development needs</li><li>
Pre-sales and Sales support (solutions design, EPS calculation, BOQ, pricing, Business Cases, implementation estimates)</li><li>
Proactively take responsibility for self-improvement by staying well-informed of developments, knowledge and innovations in relevant field of expertise.</li><li>
Attend Training Programs, Courses, Seminars, conferences, vendor meetings, User Groups and presentations.</li><li>
Other duties as directed by the Fulfilment and PMO Director</li></ul>
Qualifications<ul><li> 
BE degree in Computer and Communications Engineering or equivalent.</li><li>
Security certifications are a must</li></ul></div>

Manager, SOC / NOC Services / FASTtelco Subsidiary of Ooredoo Kuwait

<div>The Company 
Ooredoo is an organisation on the move. Thanks to our dedicated employees, we continue to move closer towards our vision to be among the top 20 telecommunications companies in the world.
We are a dynamic global telecommunications player operating in 17 countries across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Asia. We cover a population of more than half a billion people and serve more than 68 million customers.
In Kuwait, we employ approximately 1,000 talented people, all of whom are driving Ooredoo to be the number one choice for world-class communications services in Kuwait. In the face of intensifying competition, increasingly sophisticated technology and rising customer expectations, nothing is more important to our success than our team &ndash; and it's a team that you can be part of.
Ooredoo's future is bright, and you can be part of our ongoing success.
The Purpose 
Translate technical requirements into feasible business solution. Ensure all sales leads are attended and accommodated. Provide guidance and mentorship to SEs on technology/project specific cases.
Key Accountabilties &amp; Responsiblities<ul><li> 
Translate business requirements into technical solutions</li><li>
Design efficient solutions that meets clients' needs and budget.</li><li>
Validate solution design with concerned technical (functional) and commercial teams (pricing).</li><li>
Provide technical leadership to enterprise customers through a range of pre sales support functions including, supporting product evaluations, pre-sales technical consultation, post-sales support advocacy, and proactive needs analysis.</li><li>
Ensure output include a detailed scope of work and a valid BoQ.</li><li>
Network Security assessment</li><li>
SOC and MSSP security solutions</li><li>
Verify system entry is connect and in line with proposed scope and BoQ</li></ul><ul><li>
Approve order within agreed KPI</li><li>
Verify hardware availability with store team.</li><li>
Communicate with procurement to obtain supplier quotes within agreed timeline.</li><li>
 Align with technology teams and other concerned to guarantee the feasibility of the proposed solution.</li><li>
Update with latest technologies trends and solutions.</li><li>
 Attend approved webinars and seminars</li><li>
Attend other vendor specific trainings and achieve certifications</li><li>
Review technical journals and share knowledge with the team</li></ul>
Qualifications<ul><li> 
Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or ICT related discipline.</li></ul></div>

Engineer, Solution design Security / FASTtelco Subsidiary of Ooredoo Kuwait

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