Whistleblowing & Anti-Bribery and Corruption Manager

JOB PURPOSE:

To provide support and assess operational activities for the investigation of Whistleblowing & Anti-Bribery and Corruption incidents and to proactively examine the company operations, providing analytical reports and actions on findings, to enhance the company’s activities against Whistleblowing & Anti-Bribery and Corruption.

in planning, leading and managing Compliance activities across the Company. To design and implement an integrated compliance program to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations across all departments. To provide interpretation on new compliance circulars and regulations to the Compliance and business units to ensure all compliance are managed and mitigated.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Implements, updates and oversees departmental policies, procedures and provide instructions to monitor adherence of work activity to be carried out on a controlled manner.
• Reviews the reports of Whistleblowing & Anti-Bribery and Corruption incidents violations and directs their investigations to identify risk gaps and to process corrective actions.
• Controls and guides the monitoring of all transactions and operational activities against any suspicious and potential Whistleblowing & Anti-Bribery and Corruption incidents & activities, in order to enhance the protection of the company from potential losses and reputational damage
• Analyses incidents identified and provides analytical reports of monitoring results, developing propositions for overcoming and avoiding bribery & corruption incidents, so as to support management to proceed to adequate decision making.
• Keeps abreast of whistleblowing & anti-bribery and corruption control techniques and methods, proposing and upon approval implementing new processes and improvement for supporting and enhancing the prevention capabilities of the company
• Assist relevant stakeholders / business owners on the implementation of corrective and preventive actions, so as to monitor corrective action timeline and to follow escalation process.
• Participation in the development and delivery of awareness programs and material, so as to inform all departments / third parties (where applicable) accordingly of the whistleblowing & anti-bribery and corruption risks.
• Reports generation to management and relevant stakeholders through related committee’s summary of the identified incidents, implementation of preventive actions status.
• Conduct / assist in conducting investigation / visits related to identified cases as per approved policies and process.
• Contributes to the identification of opportunities for continues improvement of systems, processes and practices taking into consideration local regulatory requirements and international best practices for managing the function, improvements of the business process and productivity improvement.
• Assist CCO to develop the department strategy in line with the company strategy to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing department strategies across EMKAN.
• Ensures that the department strategy and related strategic plans are developed, implemented and are aligned with the Company’s vision and mission.
• Prepares departmental reports in an timely and accurate manner to meet company and department requirements, policies and standards.
• Ensures the effective development, distribution, follow up and secure archiving of reports.
• Performs the highest standards miniating the confidentiality of information of all cases.
• Represents the function and actively contributes in relevant committees / meetings (internal and external) as applicable and per authority levels in order to ensure relevant matters are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.
• Build high levels of trust and understanding with internal and external stakeholders to promote full compliance with industry regulations (e.g. SAMA, Legal, Anti-Fraud).
• Ensure adherence with all applicable regulations and controls within the company and related matters are carried out.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a finance, business administration or any relevant field.
• Locally or internationally recognized certificate in compliance & risk management or equivalent (CAMS, CFA, CFE, FRM or CIA).
• Minimum of 6-8 years of experience in Financing / Banking institutions, operational risk, AML, compliance, audit or cybersecurity.
• Experience of managing relationships with external auditors, representatives of national/international financial institutions and regulatory representatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven effective management skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.