Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance
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About the Role
Webook is seeking a Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance to establish and lead the GRC function. This foundational role involves designing and implementing governance frameworks, enterprise risk management, compliance programs, and internal controls.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement the enterprise governance framework, including policies, approval authorities, and decision making protocols
- Build and own the Enterprise Risk Management framework, including risk register and mitigation planning
- Establish and manage the compliance framework across all operating markets
- Design and implement practical internal controls across key business areas
- Oversee data privacy and protection compliance (PDPL, GDPR, etc.)
- Prepare board level reporting on key risks, compliance posture, and governance health
- Build and lead the GRC team from the ground up
Requirements
- Extensive experience in governance, risk, and compliance, preferably in a senior leadership role
- Proven ability to build GRC frameworks from scratch in a fast growing company
- Strong knowledge of data privacy regulations (PDPL, GDPR) and information security governance
- Experience preparing board level reporting and working with executive leadership
- Ability to operate as an individual contributor while building a team over time
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Role Overview
- The Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance will establish and lead webook.com's GRC function, building the frameworks, processes, and culture needed to manage risk and ensure compliance across our operating markets.
- This is a foundational role for the company.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and embedding the governance, risk, compliance, policy, and internal control frameworks.
- The role requires someone who is both highly experienced and highly hands on, comfortable operating as an individual contributor initially.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement webook.com's enterprise governance framework, including policies, approval authorities, decision making protocols, committees, reporting cadences, and escalation paths.
- Support the company's transition from founder led/startup style operations to a more structured governance model.
- Establish clear accountability structures across departments, markets, and leadership forums.
- Develop and maintain a company wide policy framework and policy library.
- Support board governance requirements by preparing clear, structured reporting on key risks, compliance matters, governance gaps, and mitigation plans.
- Work with executive leadership to ensure board decisions, actions, and follow ups are tracked and implemented.
- Help establish governance routines such as risk committees, compliance reviews, policy approval processes, and management reporting cycles.
- Build and own the company's Enterprise Risk Management framework from scratch.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise risk register, including strategic, operational, financial, regulatory, technology, cyber, third party, reputational, and market specific risks.
- Define risk assessment methodologies, scoring criteria, risk ownership, risk appetite, escalation thresholds, and mitigation planning processes.
- Partner with business leaders to identify, assess, prioritize, and manage risks across functions and geographies.
- Embed risk management into business planning, international expansion, product launches, vendor selection, major commercial deals, and operational decision making.
Additional Responsibilities
- Establish and manage the company's compliance framework across all operating markets.
- Identify applicable laws, regulations, licensing requirements, contractual obligations, and internal policies.
- Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on webook.com's operations.
- Lead compliance gap assessments and develop practical remediation plans.
- Create compliance calendars, checklists, registers, and reporting mechanisms.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, People, Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Operations teams to ensure compliance requirements are understood and implemented.
- Manage relationships with external advisors, regulators, auditors, and consultants where required.
- Design and implement practical internal controls across key business areas.
- Develop clear policy ownership, review cycles, approval workflows, and communication processes.
- Establish procedures for monitoring control effectiveness and tracking remediation actions.
- Prepare the company for internal audits, external audits, investor due diligence, regulatory reviews, and board level governance reviews.
- Oversee data privacy and protection compliance (PDPL, GDPR, and equivalent regulations).
Team Building & Leadership
- Build and lead the GRC team from the ground up.
- Act as the internal subject matter expert on all governance, risk, and compliance matters.
- Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, and risk awareness across the organization.
- Provide regular GRC updates and risk reports to executive leadership.
- Prepare board level reporting on key risks, compliance posture, and governance health.
- Develop dashboards and metrics to track GRC performance.
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