Head of Controls Oversight Programme Job Riyadh area,Riyadh Region Saudi Arabia,Management

Job Title: Head of Controls Oversight Programme

Division: Risk

Location: Riyadh

Working Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Sunday to Thursday)

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The role holder will partner with all the Lines of Businesses and Functions to ensure delivery of risk based, strategic outcomes, including informing and advising the Bank’s Senior Management on risk and control issues, initiatives and updates that impact the respective departments, supporting the Bank in managing the risk profile and designing strong sustainable controls.

In this role, you will:

Enforce robust risk governance and ensuring all stakeholders have visibility of key risks and any remediation activity.
Partner and advise on setting, communicating and monitoring risk appetite in line with business requirements, including appropriate support and challenge.
Conduct high quality and efficient reviews of our control performance.
Facilitate controls remediation where required.
Raise awareness and understanding of risks, controls and risk management.
Continuously improve the control and monitoring of risk, including behaviors.
Embed the bank’s Risk Management Framework
Responsible for defining Control Standards, Procedures and other Control artefacts
Develop and implement a standardized testing methodology
Produce reports and insights for material risk and controls

Role holders will carry out activities that will include most of the following:

Promote accountable risk and control decision-making based on quality data and commercial analysis
Provide specialist risk and control knowledge and insights
Identify trends to anticipate future developments in the risk and control environment
Actively challenge poor, inefficient or excessive controls, related tasks and behaviors
Drive the development and implementation of future-fit risk management frameworks
Influence and shape the development of regulatory frameworks in collaboration with internal parties
Promoting desired behaviors and a positive risk culture
Managing and shaping a team of professionals across the Bank with increasing effectiveness with a high level of discretion
Acting as escalation point for complex issues
Delivery of Priorities and strategy for Head of Controls Oversight Programme

To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:
Knowledge

Expertise in Risk Management methodology, including MI & Reporting, Utility management, Technology, Operations, Third party and supplier management, Culture and Capability;
Governance and Oversight;
Resolution Planning;
Billing & Recharges;
People and Culture;
Chief of Staff services
Ability to develop trusted adviser status with key Executive stakeholders through SME expertise, industry experience and track record; ability to understand desired Business outcomes across the matrix and ability to translate in to well communicated and clearly articulated strategies
Prior experience of working in a global matrixed organization is desirable
Knowledge and understanding of SAB is desirable
Drive and own strategy to enable high performance across the following components:
Governance & Oversight, Appropriate Risk Reporting, Issue Management etc.
Drive a Business Partnering approach to ensure a close understanding of individual business requirements and providing customized strategies that align to overall SAB Bank’s objectives and actively support individual and business specific needs on an end-to-end basis

Execution

Deliver end-to-end delivery of Controls Oversight Office services to stakeholders in accordance with agreed service catalogue & SLAs and which enhance Controls Oversight department reputation across SAB
Deliver services in accordance with regulatory and internal governance requirements.
Collaborate across the Bank in identifying and delivering opportunities to continually…