Assistant Manager Non Financial Risk & Operational Resilience

About the Role

Protiviti Middle East Member Firm is seeking an Assistant Manager, Non-Financial Risk & Operational Resilience to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves working directly with clients to deliver advisory engagements focused on Non-Financial Risk (NFR), with a core emphasis on operational resilience. The Assistant Manager will lead defined workstreams from planning through to final output, applying expertise across various NFR domains.

Role Responsibilities

The Assistant Manager will be responsible for a range of activities across operational resilience, generic NFR/operational risk, and third-party risk management, including:

• Operational Resilience: Supporting clients in identifying critical business services, facilitating impact-tolerance workshops, mapping end-to-end business processes and dependencies, designing and executing scenario testing, and reviewing/enhancing business continuity and crisis management arrangements.
• Generic NFR/Operational Risk: Leading client workstreams across NFR strategy, frameworks, policies, and procedures, conducting current-state and regulatory gap assessments, designing operational-risk frameworks, and developing operational-risk metrics and reporting.
• Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Supporting clients with outsourcing and third-party risk assessments, due-diligence reviews, and ongoing monitoring, maintaining a business-process and service perspective.
• Engagement Delivery and Practice Contribution: Planning interviews and workshops, preparing materials, managing evidence requests, supervising junior team members, and supporting proposals, market research, and tool development.

Candidate Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess the following experience and capabilities:

• Experience: 6-10 years of relevant experience in non-financial risk (NFR), operational resilience, operational risk, business continuity management (BCM), crisis management, or third-party risk advisory. Candidates with strong operational risk and/or BCM experience who are open to developing into operational resilience are encouraged to apply, with role-specific training provided.
• Industry Background: Experience in a consulting/advisory environment or a regulated financial institution is strongly preferred. Banking or financial-services experience and exposure to Saudi/GCC regulatory expectations are also preferred.
• Project Delivery: Demonstrable experience delivering at least two of the following in a project capacity: service identification and mapping, business process mapping, impact tolerances, scenario testing, BCM/BIA, crisis and incident management, third-party resilience, or operational-risk frameworks and controls.
• Leadership: Experience leading small workstreams, coordinating client stakeholders, and reviewing junior team output on client engagements.

Core Capabilities

The role requires strong risk domain capabilities to deliver client engagements, with the ability to adapt across broader NFR domains and demonstrate depth in operational resilience.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.