08-21-2011, 06:42 PM
@Analyst.
You seem to have good qualifications and solid experience to back you up. Coupled with excellent soft skills and a professional cv, you may be able to find a job between 15k-25k depending on various factors. I feel you can visit for job hunting in 2012.
Growth in industry has become slow every where. People hardly get promotion based on qualifications and passes anymore. It is only true for Trainees. Companies usualy promote based on number of total experience and number of experience in the company itself and work performance specially in dxb.
Normally there is better chances of growth with MNCs. I am currently working for a local company in dubai and plan to move to a MNC later on as rules allow. As per labour law one should spend atleast 2 years on a job before switching.
Also keep in mind that living in dubai is an incentive in itself. You will always get around 10-15% less salary as compared to other gulf states. It is also important for everyone to understand that DUBAI experience is considered more or less equivalent to "western"experience specially in a MNC. So this a non-tangible benefit to consider along with tangible benefits like salary.
Regarding CFA, i beleive there is no sepecific job title that says CFA is a MUST unlike accountancy and audit where CA,ACCA,CIMA,CPA designations are speificially required. CFA is mostly preferable in very few roles not a MUST.
It is a new qualification that has become famous in the past few years. Tradionally CFA type jobs such as analysts, fund managers, treausry, investment banking related roles have been filled by Accountants and MBAs. It will take some time before CFA creates a specific job market for itself. It has already established itself as prestigious designation but a job market is yet to develop. Comapre to CFA, CIA has a much more developed job market specially in gulf and western regions.
CFA will hardly give you a premium at the moment but you can count on it as you move up the ladder. Here you need to make a decision whether you want to stay in FINANCE (ACCA) or go into treasury/analyst roles (CFA). Both are completely different. You will never prepare financials in a CFA specific role and you will never make investment decisions in a finance role.
Personally, ACCA would give you acess to both field but at the end of the day you have to choose one.
You seem to have good qualifications and solid experience to back you up. Coupled with excellent soft skills and a professional cv, you may be able to find a job between 15k-25k depending on various factors. I feel you can visit for job hunting in 2012.
Growth in industry has become slow every where. People hardly get promotion based on qualifications and passes anymore. It is only true for Trainees. Companies usualy promote based on number of total experience and number of experience in the company itself and work performance specially in dxb.
Normally there is better chances of growth with MNCs. I am currently working for a local company in dubai and plan to move to a MNC later on as rules allow. As per labour law one should spend atleast 2 years on a job before switching.
Also keep in mind that living in dubai is an incentive in itself. You will always get around 10-15% less salary as compared to other gulf states. It is also important for everyone to understand that DUBAI experience is considered more or less equivalent to "western"experience specially in a MNC. So this a non-tangible benefit to consider along with tangible benefits like salary.
Regarding CFA, i beleive there is no sepecific job title that says CFA is a MUST unlike accountancy and audit where CA,ACCA,CIMA,CPA designations are speificially required. CFA is mostly preferable in very few roles not a MUST.
It is a new qualification that has become famous in the past few years. Tradionally CFA type jobs such as analysts, fund managers, treausry, investment banking related roles have been filled by Accountants and MBAs. It will take some time before CFA creates a specific job market for itself. It has already established itself as prestigious designation but a job market is yet to develop. Comapre to CFA, CIA has a much more developed job market specially in gulf and western regions.
CFA will hardly give you a premium at the moment but you can count on it as you move up the ladder. Here you need to make a decision whether you want to stay in FINANCE (ACCA) or go into treasury/analyst roles (CFA). Both are completely different. You will never prepare financials in a CFA specific role and you will never make investment decisions in a finance role.
Personally, ACCA would give you acess to both field but at the end of the day you have to choose one.
