Governance Manager

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the company’s governance framework, including committees, charters, RACI, and decision logs.
• Manage the end-to-end policy lifecycle, ensuring a central inventory is maintained with clear ownership, version control, and regulatory mapping.
• Maintain a structured regulatory obligations register, linking SAMA requirements to internal policies, controls, and evidence artifacts.
• Coordinate SAMA regulatory engagement, including preparing accurate responses, tracking commitments, and managing deadlines.
• Own the governance process for SAMA observations, including logging, assigning owners, tracking remediation, and ensuring root-cause analysis.
• Act as the governance secretariat for relevant committees, managing agendas, minutes, action tracking, and decision documentation.
• Implement governance gates for high-impact enterprise changes to ensure proper justification and approval.
• Coordinate governance responses to internal audit and compliance reviews, providing necessary documentation and tracking management action plans.
• Drive a culture of awareness and accountability through policy publication standards and stakeholder training.
• Produce governance reporting and management information (MI) for senior stakeholders regarding compliance status and regulatory deadlines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
• 5-8 years of experience in Corporate Governance.
• Proven experience within banking or financial institutions in the Saudi market.
• Strong familiarity with SAMA and CMA regulations, policies, and requirements.
• Deep understanding of corporate governance fundamentals, including Board and committee operations.
• Experience in policy governance, document control, and managing the policy approval lifecycle.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to write clear minutes, memos, and Board packs.
• Proficiency in Notion, SharePoint, and MS Office.
• High attention to detail and the ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality.

About the Company

Tamara is the leading fintech platform to shop, pay and bank in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, and Saudi’s first fintech unicorn. Tamara’s mission is to empower people in their daily lives and revolutionize how they shop, pay, and bank. Tamara serves millions of users in KSA, UAE, and Kuwait, and partners with leading global and regional brands.