101 Security Auditing jobs in Saudi Arabia

The Risk Management Manager is responsible for leading the identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of risks across the organization in alignment with the company’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. The role ensures compliance with laws, regulations, and governance requirements of a publicly listed entity in Saudi Arabia, including Capital Market Authority (CMA) guidelines and Tadawul listing rules. It plays a critical part in preparing accurate and transparent risk disclosures for the annual Board of Directors report, in line with best practice corporate governance standards.

• Lead the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the organization’s ERM framework, policies, and procedures.
• Embed risk management practices into strategic planning, operational execution, and decision-making across all business units.
• Conduct periodic reviews of the ERM framework to align with regulatory changes and industry best practices.
• Coordinate enterprise-wide risk identification workshops and assessments with business and functional leaders.
• Maintain a comprehensive risk register covering financial, operational, strategic, compliance, reputational, ESG, and cyber risks.
• Assess risks based on likelihood, impact, and velocity, prioritizing in line with risk appetite and tolerance levels.
• Partner with functions to develop and implement mitigation strategies, controls, and contingency plans.
• Monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and escalate emerging risks to senior management and the Board Risk Committee.
• Conduct follow-up reviews to ensure mitigation actions are implemented effectively and on time.
• Ensure risk practices comply with CMA, Tadawul listing rules, and Saudi Corporate Governance Regulations.
• Support audits related to risk management and coordinate alignment with compliance and internal audit teams.
• Prepare regular risk reports for senior management and the Board Risk Committee.
• Lead preparation of the risk section of the Annual Board Report, ensuring compliance with disclosure requirements.
• Oversee the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Crisis Management Framework, including testing and maintenance.
• Coordinate crisis responses to minimize operational and reputational impacts.
• Deliver risk awareness training and workshops to promote a risk-aware culture.
• Build strong relationships with regulators, external advisors, and stakeholders while staying ahead of emerging risk trends.
• Represent the company in external forums on risk management and governance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certifications preferred: CFA, FRM, CRM, CPA, or equivalent.
• 7–10 years of experience in risk management, internal audit, or financial control, preferably in a publicly listed company or regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of CMA guidelines, Tadawul listing rules, and Saudi Corporate Governance Regulations.
• Expertise in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks and risk assessment methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess and prioritize risks.
• Proficiency in developing risk registers, KRIs, dashboards, and reports.
• Experience in business continuity planning and crisis management frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent presentation, reporting, and communication skills for Board and executive audiences.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism in managing sensitive information.
• Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (written and spoken).

The Risk Management Analyst role at Tabby | تابي focuses on supporting the Risk Manager in developing, implementing, and maintaining effective risk management strategies to protect the organization from threats and vulnerabilities. This role requires a detail-oriented, analytical thinker who can conduct risk assessments, assist in compliance monitoring, and support business continuity planning. The analyst will collaborate with various departments to gather risk-related information, provide insights for decision-making, and ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and organizational goals. The ideal candidate will have experience in risk management processes, data analysis, and reporting, contributing to the continuous improvement of the organization's risk management practices.

Department: Risk Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: KSA

Reporting To: Ahmed Almughriyah

• Assist in Risk Management Processes


• Support the Risk Manager in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across the organization.


• Assist in the development and implementation of risk management strategies and frameworks.


• Conduct Risk Assessments


• Perform risk assessments to evaluate potential risks and vulnerabilities.


• Assist in developing risk mitigation plans and strategies.


• Compliance Monitoring


• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.


• Assist in preparing compliance reports and maintaining documentation for audits.


• Data Analysis and Reporting


• Analyze risk data and generate reports to support decision-making processes.


• Monitor key risk indicators and prepare regular reports for senior management.


• Support Business Continuity Planning


• Assist in the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs).


• Participate in BCP and DRP testing and updates.


• Collaboration and Communication


• Collaborate with various departments to gather risk-related information and ensure alignment on risk management objectives.


• Communicate risk findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.


• Continuous Improvement


• Contribute to the continuous improvement of risk management processes and practices.


• Stay updated on emerging risks and industry trends to provide timely insights.

• At least 3 years of experience in risk management or a related field.


• Experience in conducting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation strategies.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data.


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• Proficiency in risk management tools and software.


• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.


• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.

• Familiarity with risk management frameworks such as ISO 31000 or COSO ERM.


• Understanding of compliance requirements and industry regulations.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Finance and Sales

Our Client, a leading International Consultancy specialising in engineering and project management for the building industry, has recently been awarded one of the largest Healthcare projects in Saudi Arabia.

The project is scheduled to last 3 years and will include several mid-rise Hospitals, Residential facilities, Commercial Facilities, Mosques, and Sports Facilities.

They are currently looking for a Risk Management Specialist to join their team at the Headquarters in Riyadh, working on the project. Middle East experience is essential for this role. Previous Healthcare project experience will be an advantage.

The client offers a competitive salary along with strong benefits.

If interested, please send your CV quoting reference J1475.

The ideal candidate will have 15 years of experience and hold a Degree in Engineering from an internationally recognized university. Extensive experience in project management, risk measurement, evaluation, and strategy development is required.

Experience working for Consultancies, Project Management Companies, and Design & Build Companies is essential.

AY CONSULTANTS LTD is a reputable, independent consultancy specialising in placing permanent and contract technical staff for the built environment. With a history of successful assignments and a commitment to customer satisfaction, much of our work is repeat business.

Our consultants and directors have industry experience, enabling them to develop empathy with clients and candidates alike.

We leverage our specialist experience to provide a personal and informed service across the full industry spectrum at all recruitment levels.

• Manages day-to-day operations of the risk management department to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the department’s processes. Supports the department in preparation for any enterprise risk management-related examinations conducted by external parties such as regulatory agencies or any potential internal audit.
• Designing and implementing an overall risk management process for the university, which includes an analysis of the financial impact on the university when risks occur. Contributes to the development and execution of the department's short to mid-term strategic plan to ensure alignment with the department’s strategic priorities and the university's goals.
• Conducts risk assessments, collecting and analyzing documentation, statistics, and reports, identifying potential risks that may affect the university. Reviews and assesses risk management policies and protocols; makes recommendations and implements modifications and improvements.
• Reports accurately and on time, identifying risk areas, making recommendations for improvement, and collaborating with related departments until agreed-upon actions are completed.
• Promotes organizational risk awareness culture through communications, workshops, training sessions, and informal/formal engagements, etc.
• Conducts the BIA and test/exercise planning, determining any associated compliance requirements (e.g. legal obligations to conduct a certain number and type of exercise each year).
• Assess and prioritize business processes from the resilience/availability perspective.
• Determine/specify resilience requirements, taking into account interdependencies between processes and IT systems support aspects, and prepare BC plans.
• Ensure that BC plans are prepared to a consistent level of quality, accuracy, completeness and detail, typically by preparing suitable templates.
• Take a strategic enterprise-wide view of BC, developing broad strategies and policies for BC that complement and support other routine business strategies, risk and security management objectives, IT DR policies
• Performs other job-related duties as required.

Visa’s Global Risk organization is seeking a dynamic Director to join its team and lead Digital Payment risks management across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman.

This role serves as the face of Risk with external obligation to ensure Visa’s interactions with clients, partners, merchants, regulators and other third parties on risk-related matters are well informed, effective, and collectively moving the Visa ecosystem towards a stronger state. Internally, the Risk Management Director’s obligation is to leverage their market knowledge and presence to ensure Visa’s risk related policies, programs and frameworks are aligned with current and future business demands.

The Director role provides deep insights, thought leadership and support against a broader set of risk related issues and activities, including client fraud and approval optimization, credit settlement risk, anti-money laundering, deployment of Visa’s Risk solutions, the use of third parties and deployment of emerging technologies.

The Director will serve as the risk leader and advisor to the KBO business and GCC & CEMEA Risk leadership teams and will play a vital role in shaping the risk management landscape in a rapidly growing cluster.

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Risk, GCC, this role requires frequent collaboration with internal stakeholders across the GCC and CEMEA regions, and extensive external engagements with clients, partners, government and other payment industry stakeholders.

As an individual contributor, this role requires a highly self-motivated individual, with the skills and ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders across the Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman cluster.

Five core principles provide a foundation for our work in Risk Management:

Market Knowledge: Maintain a heightened awareness of the country or regional business environment, the payment system and other risks to clients operating in each market, and the past and present tactics being deployed to mitigate these risks.

Business Alignment: Align Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the same area in order to maximize long-term growth.

Relationship Management: Engage key stakeholders (clients, partners, law enforcement, government and others) to secure support for Visa’s goals and address identified risks.

Thought Leadership: Differentiate Visa by demonstrating thought leadership to payment system stakeholders on risk issues, pulling from local, regional, and global sources. As a Risk Vanguard within the cluster work with Risk to identify new & novel methods used by criminals to target clients or stakeholders and build customized and innovative risk offerings by aligning with internal stakeholders to disrupt emerging fraud & security vulnerabilities affecting the Payments Industry

Communication: Ensure strong communication and provide marketplace feedback around Visa’s risk related programs and policies, and other activities

Key Responsibilities:

Ecosystem Risk Management: Maintain a heightened awareness of the country or regional business environment, payment systems, and other risks to clients operating in each market. Stay informed about past and present tactics used to mitigate these risks. Monitor local risk-related trends and developments, such as fraud schemes, regulatory changes, and key developments required to enhance the risk profile of partners and clients as well as Visa’s risk posture. Take the lead in protecting the payment ecosystem by proactively managing Visa’s Ecosystem Integrity programs with internal and external stakeholders.

Business Alignment: Align Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the region to optimize long-term growth and ensure that risk management strategies support and enhance the overall business strategy.

Risk Relationship Management: Engage key stakeholders, including clients, law enforcement, government, and other relevant entities, to secure support for Visa’s goals and address identified risks. Be the primary Visa risk expert advisor to key clients in the market. Drive customized risk engagements and provide focus to key clients, fintechs, merchants, and emerging payment stakeholders. Develop and execute a client engagement plan and materials to help clients optimize fraud performance, determine the type and frequency of engagements.

Thought Leadership: Differentiate Visa by demonstrating thought leadership on risk issues to payment system stakeholders. Participate in and orchestrate industry forums (e.g., clients, law enforcement, regulators, industry participants), and consumer awareness campaigns of payment system stakeholders to drive greater awareness and support for Visa’s payment system risk strategy. Be the point of reference in all risk-related engagement with regulatory and industry bodies. Differentiate Visa as a digital payments leader by providing clients and other stakeholders with value-added insights, best practices, conducting onsite market fraud prevention seminars (or webinars), and educational materials.

Communication: Ensure effective communication and provide marketplace feedback regarding Visa’s risk-related programs, policies, and other activities. Maintain transparency and keep all relevant parties informed about risk management initiatives and outcomes.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

• Has led underwriting operations for SME, Retail or corporate lending for a large Financial Institution for a minimum of 3 years, taking accountability for application processing and credit decisioning functions
• Led the underwriting of merchants for a large acquirer including client risk assessment and due diligence, onboarding
• Strong understanding of and experience managing acquiring risk with hands-on experience improving the acquiring risk posture of an entity.
• Experience in managing fraud risk, transaction monitoring operations, application fraud assessment, and suspicious transaction review.
• Good understanding of Anti-Money Laundering policies and operational processes
• Assessed impact of regulation on business or operations, responsible for responding to regulatory requirements, and participated or led responses to regulatory supervision or scrutiny.
• Experience with maximizing portfolio performance within the confines of local regulation.

Required

• Master’s degree required with 10+ years of progressive risk management experience working in the payment services or financial industry
• Strong understanding of the inter-dependency between Credit, Operational, Strategic and Cybersecurity Risks
• Understanding of current and emerging payment system risk trends across Middle East & Africa
• Ability to influence at senior levels both internally and externally.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to synthesize complex and technical information into clear recommendations on course of action.
• Detail orientation and strong analytical skills, willingness to offer thought leadership, to think creatively, and to offer new ways to approach old problems
• Flexibility and ability to think creatively and to identify new ways to approach old problems.
• Ability to identify and pursue multiple initiatives simultaneously and deliver superior results.
• Exceptional project management and reporting skills. Strong proficiency with project management tools (i.e. Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint). Proven ability to prioritize deliverables and projects to meet timelines efficiently, to adapt to changes in priorities quickly and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously to drive projects to completion and deliver quality materials under tight deadlines
• Experience determining when to escalate to management and identifying the right stakeholders for decision making
• Excellent collaboration and communications skills with experience in influencing, communicating and driving change through cross-functional groups, including the ability to diplomatically build consensus across disparate views
• Positive, proactive, solution-oriented problem solver who gets things done within a matrix organization
• Experience in preparing, and reviewing, and delivering (concise) executive level communications

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

• Conducting the quarterly risk reviews with the operational project entities.
• Conducting on-demand risk reviews with the operational project entities as specified according to the business needs.
• Maintaining the recording activities in accordance with the in-place practices.
• Adhering to the reporting timelines in line with the Board Risk Management Committee and business set schedules.
• Ensuring quality and accuracy of risk registers and reports.

• Monitoring the external and internal context via the specified channels.
• Communicating with relevant internal stakeholders for data acquisition and support related to risk management activities.
• Reporting uncertainties with potential influence on risks to the relevant internal stakeholders.
• Engaging in BU Operation periodic meetings to stay up to date and provide inputs where needed.

• Conducting risk aggregation from project level to the cluster level as well as from the cluster level to the BU level in line with the set methods.
• Performing the quarterly risk meetings with BU Operation and Operation Cluster head in preparation for the GEO Risk Committee.
• Performing risk quantification in line with the set methods.
• Preparing risk reports across the activities mandated by the reporting processes.
• Transitioning the risk management system for projects transitioning from construction to operation phase including risk register, risk management policy and procedure as well as risk reporting formats.
• Develop and periodically update the risk management policy and procedure for project companies in operation phase.
• Developing and leading the enhancement of risk management practices in line with the risk management framework, procedures and plans.
• Conducting risk management training workshops and sessions at project, cluster and GEO levels
• Onboarding new risk owners and risk champions for risk management.
• Visiting the project sites for familiarization and delivering risk management sessions to the project teams in coordination with risk owners and risk champions.
• Contributing to the overall risk culture and setting the tone in the area of scope.
• Supporting departmental periodic and on-demand activities.
• Enhancing the competency of direct reports and provide support and guidance.

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Job Description

About Us :

Kaizen is the Number 1 Recruitment Leader in the MENA region and works on placing high-caliber professionals in prominent and lucrative roles across the Middle East & GCC.

The Client :

Established in 1841, it is the world’s leading source of business information and insights, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence. It operates responsibly in 64 countries across the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean / Pacific Islands regions.

Job Description :

We are looking for a high-performing Sales Consultant based in KSA to meet our customer acquisition and revenue growth targets by keeping our company competitive and innovative.

Duties and Responsibilities :

1. Be responsible for Business Development in the assigned region.
2. Build, maintain, and manage key relationships.
3. Devise and execute appropriate marketing and promotional efforts.
4. Achieve growth and meet sales targets successfully.
5. Set objectives for each client offering.
6. Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with clients and understanding their needs.
7. Present sales, revenue, expenses reports, and realistic forecasts to the management team.
8. Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition.

Skills & Competencies :

• Successful previous experience as a sales representative or sales executive, consistently meeting or exceeding targets.
• Ability to communicate, make presentations, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the company.
• Proven ability to drive the sales process from planning to successful closure.
• Strong business sense and diverse industry expertise.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent networking skills.

Qualifications :

• Preferably Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration or a related field from a reputed institute.

Experience :

• Preferably 3+ years of B2B corporate sales experience.

Next Steps :

When you apply for this position, a consultant from Kaizen Firm will evaluate your resume for this role and consider you for other relevant positions that match your interests, expertise, and skill set. Your CV may be stored in our protected applicant tracking system, but your information will never be disclosed without your permission. You can browse a wide range of employment opportunities and manage your personal data rights at any time via

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Department: Risk Management

Location: KSA

• Support the Risk Manager in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across the organization.
  
  
• Assist in the development and implementation of risk management strategies and frameworks.
  
  

• Perform risk assessments to evaluate potential risks and vulnerabilities.
  
  
• Assist in developing risk mitigation plans and strategies.
  
  

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
  
  
• Assist in preparing compliance reports and maintaining documentation for audits.
  
  

• Analyze risk data and generate reports to support decision-making processes.
  
  
• Monitor key risk indicators and prepare regular reports for senior management.
  
  

• Assist in the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs).
  
  
• Participate in BCP and DRP testing and updates.
  
  

• Collaborate with various departments to gather risk-related information and ensure alignment on risk management objectives.
  
  
• Communicate risk findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
  
  

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of risk management processes and practices.
  
  
• Stay updated on emerging risks and industry trends to provide timely insights.
  
  
  
  

• At least 3 years of experience in risk management or a related field.
  
  
• Experience in conducting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation strategies.
  
  

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data.
  
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  
• Proficiency in risk management tools and software.
  
  
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
  
  
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
  
  

• Familiarity with risk management frameworks such as ISO 31000 or COSO ERM.
  
  
• Understanding of compliance requirements and industry regulations.
  
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Finance and Sales

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Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa’s Global Risk organization is seeking a dynamic Director to join its team and lead Digital Payment risks management across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman.

This role serves as the face of Risk with external obligation to ensure Visa’s interactions with clients, partners, merchants, regulators and other third parties on risk-related matters are well informed, effective, and collectively moving the Visa ecosystem towards a stronger state. Internally, the Risk Management Director’s obligation is to leverage their market knowledge and presence to ensure Visa’s risk related policies, programs and frameworks are aligned with current and future business demands.

The Director role provides deep insights, thought leadership and support against a broader set of risk related issues and activities, including client fraud and approval optimization, credit settlement risk, anti-money laundering, deployment of Visa’s Risk solutions, the use of third parties and deployment of emerging technologies.

The Director will serve as the risk leader and advisor to the KBO business and GCC & CEMEA Risk leadership teams and will play a vital role in shaping the risk management landscape in a rapidly growing cluster.

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Risk, GCC, this role requires frequent collaboration with internal stakeholders across the GCC and CEMEA regions, and extensive external engagements with clients, partners, government and other payment industry stakeholders.

As an individual contributor, this role requires a highly self-motivated individual, with the skills and ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders across the Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman cluster.

Five core principles provide a foundation for our work in Risk Management:

Market Knowledge: Maintain a heightened awareness of the country or regional business environment, the payment system and other risks to clients operating in each market, and the past and present tactics being deployed to mitigate these risks.

Business Alignment: Align Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the same area in order to maximize long-term growth.

Relationship Management: Engage key stakeholders (clients, partners, law enforcement, government and others) to secure support for Visa’s goals and address identified risks.

Thought Leadership: Differentiate Visa by demonstrating thought leadership to payment system stakeholders on risk issues, pulling from local, regional, and global sources. As a Risk Vanguard within the cluster work with Risk to identify new & novel methods used by criminals to target clients or stakeholders and build customized and innovative risk offerings by aligning with internal stakeholders to disrupt emerging fraud & security vulnerabilities affecting the Payments Industry

Communication: Ensure strong communication and provide marketplace feedback around Visa’s risk related programs and policies, and other activities

Key Responsibilities:

• Ecosystem Risk Management: Maintain a heightened awareness of the country or regional business environment, payment systems, and other risks to clients operating in each market. Stay informed about past and present tactics used to mitigate these risks. Monitor local risk-related trends and developments, such as fraud schemes, regulatory changes, and key developments required to enhance the risk profile of partners and clients as well as Visa’s risk posture. Take the lead in protecting the payment ecosystem by proactively managing Visa’s Ecosystem Integrity programs with internal and external stakeholders.
  
  

• Business Alignment: Align Visa’s risk-related objectives and activities with Visa’s business goals in the region to optimize long-term growth and ensure that risk management strategies support and enhance the overall business strategy.
  
  

• Risk Relationship Management: Engage key stakeholders, including clients, law enforcement, government, and other relevant entities, to secure support for Visa’s goals and address identified risks. Be the primary Visa risk expert advisor to key clients in the market. Drive customized risk engagements and provide focus to key clients, fintechs, merchants, and emerging payment stakeholders. Develop and execute a client engagement plan and materials to help clients optimize fraud performance, determine the type and frequency of engagements.
  
  

• Thought Leadership: Differentiate Visa by demonstrating thought leadership on risk issues to payment system stakeholders. Participate in and orchestrate industry forums (e.g., clients, law enforcement, regulators, industry participants), and consumer awareness campaigns of payment system stakeholders to drive greater awareness and support for Visa’s payment system risk strategy. Be the point of reference in all risk-related engagement with regulatory and industry bodies. Differentiate Visa as a digital payments leader by providing clients and other stakeholders with value-added insights, best practices, conducting onsite market fraud prevention seminars (or webinars), and educational materials.
  
  

• Communication: Ensure effective communication and provide marketplace feedback regarding Visa’s risk-related programs, policies, and other activities. Maintain transparency and keep all relevant parties informed about risk management initiatives and outcomes.
  
  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

• Has led underwriting operations for SME, Retail or corporate lending for a large Financial Institution for a minimum of 3 years, taking accountability for application processing and credit decisioning functions
• Led the underwriting of merchants for a large acquirer including client risk assessment and due diligence, onboarding
• Strong understanding of and experience managing acquiring risk with hands-on experience improving the acquiring risk posture of an entity.
• Experience in managing fraud risk, transaction monitoring operations, application fraud assessment, and suspicious transaction review.
• Good understanding of Anti-Money Laundering policies and operational processes
• Assessed impact of regulation on business or operations, responsible for responding to regulatory requirements, and participated or led responses to regulatory supervision or scrutiny.
• Experience with maximizing portfolio performance within the confines of local regulation.

Required

• Master’s degree required with 10+ years of progressive risk management experience working in the payment services or financial industry
• Strong understanding of the inter-dependency between Credit, Operational, Strategic and Cybersecurity Risks
• Understanding of current and emerging payment system risk trends across Middle East & Africa
• Ability to influence at senior levels both internally and externally.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills and an ability to synthesize complex and technical information into clear recommendations on course of action.
• Detail orientation and strong analytical skills, willingness to offer thought leadership, to think creatively, and to offer new ways to approach old problems
• Flexibility and ability to think creatively and to identify new ways to approach old problems.
• Ability to identify and pursue multiple initiatives simultaneously and deliver superior results.
• Exceptional project management and reporting skills. Strong proficiency with project management tools (i.e. Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint). Proven ability to prioritize deliverables and projects to meet timelines efficiently, to adapt to changes in priorities quickly and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously to drive projects to completion and deliver quality materials under tight deadlines
• Experience determining when to escalate to management and identifying the right stakeholders for decision making
• Excellent collaboration and communications skills with experience in influencing, communicating and driving change through cross-functional groups, including the ability to diplomatically build consensus across disparate views
• Positive, proactive, solution-oriented problem solver who gets things done within a matrix organization
• Experience in preparing, and reviewing, and delivering (concise) executive level communications
  
  

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

• Seniority level Director

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Other
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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