Senior Consultant / Senior Associate
Discovered MENA · United Arab Emirates
Apply & track with Apply EdgePlease note that this role is based in Abu Dhabi and requires you to be in office 5 days a week. Please DO NOT apply if this does not work for you!We're hiring an Senior Consultant / Senior Associate – AI Value Realisation & Business Integration to join a leading Financial Services company in the United Arab Emirates.This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of AI, transformation and business strategy, focused on ensuring a growing portfolio of AI products translates into measurable financial and operational value, strong user adoption, and sustainable business impact.What you'll be doing:
- Lead value sizing, measurement and benefits realisation across a portfolio of strategic AI products
- Develop business cases, value hypotheses, KPI frameworks and measurement approaches to quantify the impact of AI initiatives
- Partner closely with AI Product Owners and business stakeholders to define value targets and track outcomes from development through to adoption
- Lead business integration and change management, ensuring AI products are successfully embedded into day-to-day operations
- Identify the process, operating model and behavioural changes required to unlock the full value of AI solutions
- Drive user adoption through stakeholder engagement, user research, workshops, communications and change initiatives
- Analyse performance and translate complex findings into clear recommendations and executive-level reporting
- Engage and influence senior business leaders, helping shape decisions around AI investment, prioritisation and value creationWhat we're looking for:
- Strong strategy or management consulting experience. 7-8 years overall & ideally including 2–5 years within a top-tier consulting firm
- Experience delivering transformation, value realisation, business integration or implementation-focused engagements
- Financial Services or banking exposure, either directly within the industry or through consulting engagements
- Demonstrable experience building business cases, KPI frameworks, value measurement approaches or benefits realisation frameworks
- Strong hands-on delivery mindset with evidence of personally owning outcomes rather than purely managing programmes or reporting
- Experience with change management, business adoption, process transformation or operating model change
- Excellent analytical, structured problem-solving and executive communication capabilities
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced and evolving environmentWhy join?
- Join a leading Financial Services company building and deploying AI products across one of the region's largest organisations
- Work across multiple AI products and directly influence how their business value is defined, measured and realised
- Gain significant exposure to senior executives and strategic decision-makers
- Move beyond pure strategy and work directly on the implementation, adoption and measurable impact of AI
- Join a lean, high-autonomy team where your individual contribution will be highly visibleIf you're from a top-tier consulting, banking transformation or value realisation background and want to work closer to the execution and impact of AI, I'd love to speak with you!