Director - Governance, Risk, and Control Lead - 50012080 - DA3

Role Overview

Director - Governance, Risk, and Control Lead at Qiddiya Investment Company, a Saudi holding and development company. This role leads governance, risk, controls, and business continuity for City Ops across a complex destination environment.

Company 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. The organization operates complex destination environments requiring strong governance, risk, and control practices to enable sound decisions, compliant operations, and resilient performance across critical functions.

Role Purpose

You will define how City Ops operates with clarity, accountability, and resilience. Your focus is shaping the frameworks and oversight needed to support effective decision-making, compliant operations, and proactive risk management while partnering with central functions and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Governance & Decision-Making

• 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.
• Manage City Ops committees and governance meetings, including meeting coordination, agenda preparation, minutes of meeting documentation, action tracking, and organization of related records and follow-ups.

Controls & Compliance

• Develop and oversee standards and controls to ensure City Ops functions operate in line with company policies, delegations, and compliance requirements.
• Monitor implementation of controls and support resolution of gaps and audit findings.

Risk Management

• Manage the City Ops risk management process, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation tracking, reporting, and escalation.

Business Continuity

• Support business continuity planning and playbook development, including continuity requirements, recovery plans, coordination protocols, readiness activities, and periodic reviews across City Ops functions.

Stakeholder Coordination & Reporting

• Coordinate with central functions on governance, risk, compliance, controls, audit, and business continuity requirements.
• Provide leadership reporting on key risks, gaps, governance actions, and business continuity readiness.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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.