Director - Governance, Risk, and Control Lead
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About the Role
Qiddiya Investment Company seeks a Director - Governance, Risk, and Control Lead to establish governance frameworks, manage risk, and support business continuity across City Ops. The role requires 12+ years of experience in governance, risk, and controls within complex environments.
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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 ability to present to and influence executive leadership
- Experience in large scale real estate development, destination or city operations, or other complex multi stakeholder environments is a plus
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Role Overview
- Qiddiya Investment Company is a Saudi holding and development company leading major investments in entertainment, sports, and culture, including the development of Qiddiya City and related destination offerings.
- This role sits at the center of governance, risk, and control efforts, helping shape the frameworks and oversight needed to support City Ops in a structured, effective, and forward looking way.
- As Director Governance, Risk, and Control Lead, you will help define how City Ops operates with clarity, accountability, and resilience.
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.
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