Senior Manager - Corporate Governance

Role Purpose:

To establish a clear over-riding governance framework which defines how the organization’s corporate governance documents are established, developed, reviewed, maintained, updated and approved as per corporate governance and regulatory requirements.

Key Accountabilities: 

1- Corporate governance framework;

• Assist in annual update of the governance framework which defines the corporate governance frameworks and policies to ensure compliance with company needs, best practice and regulators’ requirements.

2- Document Maintenance;      

• Conduct corporate governance gap analysis and maturity assessment.
• Support in tracking governance documents’ versions, amendments and authorization bodies and timing for all in scope governance frameworks and policies.

 3- Corporate Governance Compliance;

• Practice an open transparent and constructive relationship with regulators to ensure prompt awareness of regulatory requirements and changes related to corporate governance.
• Guide the company to comply with its corporate governance disclosure obligations with regulatory agencies.
• Oversee all corporate governance related communications with regulatory agencies for all applicable regulations, issued circulations and prospective regulations that will be issued in the future on corporate governance.

4- Governance Information Management;

• Update all regulatory related documents on the company intranet to keep employees up to date.
• Manage all governance documents communications and ensure they are promptly communicated to the concerned parties. 

5- Awareness Communication;

• Support in the communications awareness and training materials relating to the governance document. 
• Support other functions on the development and documentation of frameworks, policies and procedures in a consistent manner across the organization.

• Proven working knowledge of current governance legislation and best practices in the region.
• Considerable experience in engaging with board members, regulators, shareholders and the broader stakeholder as well.
• Exposure in corporate governance and compliance matters.
• Customer focused perspective and keen judgment, supported by effective negotiation and influencing skills.
• Deal effectively with ambiguity.
• Work under pressure and have a high level of composure.
• Robust business sense, with strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent command of English and Arabic.

Law, Finance, Economics, Engineering and Accounting