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Cybersecurity Manager

moneymoon
Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 6 days ago
Cybersecurity governanceSAMA Cyber Security FrameworkCybersecurity risk managementCloud securityIdentity and access managementPrivileged access management
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About Moneymoon

Moneymoon is a fintech platform for short-term peer-to-peer lending built around secure, compliant, and automated technology.

The company is progressing through the Saudi Central Bank Regulatory Sandbox and preparing for full licensing.

Role Overview

The Cybersecurity Manager will act as CISO and own the cybersecurity function end to end.

The role combines governance, SAMA regulatory readiness, cyber risk management, security operations, cloud and application security, incident response, resilience, and technical oversight.

The role works with Technology, Product, Data and AI, Operations, Compliance, Risk, HR, Finance, and senior leadership.

Governance and Risk

  • Own cybersecurity policies, standards, controls, improvement plans, evidence, and regulatory documentation.
  • Drive alignment with SAMA CSF, MVC, CRFR, CFFR, NCA ECC, PDPL, and ISO/IEC 27001.
  • Lead audits, assessments, control testing, findings management, risk treatment, metrics, and reporting.

Security Operations and Engineering

  • Improve security across cloud, IAM/PAM, endpoints, EDR, email, networks, applications, APIs, vulnerability management, logging, SIEM, and threat detection.
  • Manage joiner, mover, and leaver access processes, privileged accounts, access reviews, and remediation.
  • Automate repetitive security processes through scripting, integrations, and security tooling.

AI and Product Security

  • Build AI-driven detection, alert triage, evidence collection, workflow automation, and incident-response capabilities.
  • Protect the company’s AI and LLM use against prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, unauthorized access, insecure integrations, and model misuse.
  • Conduct threat modeling and security reviews across products, applications, APIs, cloud, integrations, and significant technology changes.

Incident Response and Resilience

  • Own vulnerability scanning, prioritization, remediation tracking, penetration testing, and closure verification.
  • Lead incident detection, containment, investigation, eradication, recovery, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
  • Support business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, recovery objectives, tabletop exercises, and incident simulations.

Third-Party and Awareness

  • Assess vendor, cloud provider, integration, and other critical third-party cybersecurity controls, dependencies, and risks.
  • Drive cybersecurity awareness, training, onboarding activities, and practical security accountability across the organization.

Required Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of progressive cybersecurity experience is required.
  • Practical SAMA CSF knowledge and experience implementing or assessing cybersecurity controls are required.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud security, governance, risk management, security operations, incident response, and technical security improvements is required.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills are required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in fintech, lending, banking, payments, or another regulated environment is preferred.
  • SAMA assessment, operational resilience, fraud control, security automation, AI security, scripting, or relevant professional certification experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • The package includes performance-based bonus opportunities, medical insurance, annual salary review, and potential ESOP eligibility.
  • The role includes professional development support and the opportunity to build the cybersecurity function as a founding team member.

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