Principal - Investments

The client is an investment company providing capital to leading carbon project developers globally, with 25 projects across clean cooking, regenerative agriculture, blue carbon and other categories. They are a growing business at the intersection of investment discipline and real-world climate impact. They operate as a lean, entrepreneurial platform with a high degree of ownership and exposure.

Role Summary

The Principal will support the leadership team, CEO, President and CFO across the firm’s platform, contributing across investment, platform-building, capital raising, and business development workstreams as priorities shift. They are looking for someone analytically exceptional: intellectually rigorous, commercially minded, reliable, and highly detail-oriented. Curious, adaptable, and eager to learn our markets and business. A team player.

Key parameters

• Reports to: CEO, President and CFO
• Location: Based in the UAE. Remote-first, with travel as required.
• Experience: analytical background with3 to 6 years in PE, IB, consulting, Big Four, or similar
• Start date: ASAP

What you will do

Investment and strategic analysis

• Perform financial modelling, market analysis, and investment underwriting
• Support sourcing, transaction execution, and due diligence processes
• Produce investment memos, Board materials, and strategic analysis
• Support capital raising materials and investor workstreams
• Track carbon market developments and develop investment views

Platform and commercial support

• Support broader platform priorities across business development (carbon credit commercialization)
• Help manage intermediary, investor, and corporate buyer relationships
• Support commercial and legal processes
• Contribute to operational improvement initiatives, including AI adoption across the platform, and other strategic projects

Who you are

Professional profile:

• Exceptional analytical ability, thoughtfulness and sound commercial judgment
• Meticulous attention to detail and consistently high-quality output
• Take responsibility, own results and deadlines
• Strong professional track record, ideally including early progression and increased responsibility

Personality profile:

• Curious, intellectually engaged, and eager to learn
• Collaborative team player
• Adaptable and comfortable operating across shifting priorities and workstreams
• Comfortable working in a lean, entrepreneurial environment with significant ownership and
• exposure
• Self-starter, able to work independently and remotely