Governance Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Governance Manager

Job Description: Motivated and detail-oriented Governance Manager to join Tamara’s Governance team. Serve as the focal point for governance matters, ensuring the organization’s activities, decisions, and documentation align with applicable regulatory requirements and internal governance standards. Work closely with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and business teams to coordinate governance forums and approvals, maintain accurate records (charters, policies, minutes, decisions, action logs), and support effective oversight across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the company’s governance framework (committees, charters, RACI, escalation paths, decision logs) to ensure clear accountability.
• Ensure governance practices support regulatory compliance, prudent risk management, and control effectiveness.
• Coordinate governance inputs for senior management and Board/committees, ensuring materials are complete, consistent, and decision-ready.
• Own and operate the Policy Governance / Policy Approval Framework (policy lifecycle, ownership, periodic reviews, approvals, version control, publication, and retirement).
• Maintain a central policy inventory ensuring each policy has an owner, SOPs, scope, approval authority, effective date, review frequency, and evidence of review.
• Ensure policies are up to date and mapped to regulatory obligations including SAMA requirements.
• Maintain a structured regulatory obligations register / compliance mapping, linking SAMA requirements to internal policies, controls, SOPs, and evidence artifacts.
• Coordinate inputs and internal reviews for SAMA requests, ensuring responses are accurate, approved through the right governance channels, and supported by evidence.
• Track SAMA-related commitments and deadlines and drive internal follow-ups to avoid delays.
• Own the governance process for SAMA observations: logging, assigning owners, setting milestones, tracking progress, and escalating overdue items.
• Act as governance secretariat (or coordinate it) for relevant committees: schedule cadence, agendas, minutes, actions, decision documentation, and follow-up tracking.
• Produce governance reporting for senior stakeholders.

Qualifications Needed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in Corporate Governance.
• Experience within Banking or Financial Institutions in the Saudi market and familiar with SAMA and CMA regulations, policies, and requirements.
• Corporate governance fundamentals (Board/committees/executive roles, decision rights, delegation of authority).
• Board and committee operations (agenda planning, annual calendar, minutes/resolutions, action tracking, evidence filing).
• Regulatory and compliance awareness for financial services (governance expectations and regulatory interactions).
• Policy governance and document control (draft–review–approval–publish–review cycle, versioning, owners, exceptions).
• Risk, audit, and control mindset (traceability, audit-ready records, governance artefacts and approvals).
• Strong executive communication and writing skills (clear minutes, memos, policies, presentations/Board packs).
• Stakeholder management and facilitation skills (align Legal/Compliance/Risk/Finance; manage senior stakeholders).
• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and sound judgment with sensitive information.
• Tools proficiency: Notion/SharePoint/document repositories; trackers/registers; MS Office.

What the Company Offers:

• Senior governance role at Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn, Tamara.
• Work at the company’s Riyadh HQ with direct engagement with SAMA and senior leadership.
• Opportunity to build and own governance frameworks for one of the GCC’s fastest-growing regulated fintechs.
• Backed by PIF (Sanabil Investments), SNB Capital, and Checkout.com.

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