Director - Governance, Risk, and Control Lead
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Responsibilities
- Lead governance, risk, controls, and business continuity across City Ops to support clear decision-making, compliant operations, effective controls, and proactive risk management.
- Establish and maintain the City Ops governance framework, including governance forums, decision rights, escalation routes, and reporting requirements.
- Develop and oversee standards and controls to ensure City Ops functions operate in line with company policies, delegations, and compliance requirements.
- Manage the City Ops risk management process, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation tracking, reporting, and escalation.
- Support business continuity planning and playbook development, including continuity requirements, recovery plans, coordination protocols, readiness activities, and periodic reviews across City Ops functions.
- Coordinate with central functions on governance, risk, compliance, controls, audit, and business continuity requirements.
- Monitor implementation of controls and support resolution of gaps and audit findings.
- Provide leadership reporting on key risks, gaps, governance actions, and business continuity readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, risk management, business administration, or a related field.
- 12+ years of relevant experience across governance, risk management, internal controls, compliance, and audit.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks, delegations of authority, control environments, and compliance requirements.
- Experience managing risk registers, mitigation plans, control actions, and issue escalation.
- Experience developing or implementing business continuity plans, recovery requirements, or operational resilience frameworks.
- Experience with enterprise risk management frameworks, internal control frameworks, business continuity standards, or operational resilience frameworks.
- Experience working across operations, finance, legal, risk, audit, and central corporate functions, with the ability to present to and influence executive leadership or heads of central functions.
- Experience in large-scale real estate development, destination or city operations, or other complex multi-stakeholder environments is a plus.
About Qiddiya Investment Company
Developer of the Qiddiya entertainment, sports, and culture destination.
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