Head Of Risk and Cyber Security

Who Are We❓

We Are Foodics!a leading restaurant management ecosystem and payment tech provider. Founded in 2014 with headquarter in Riyadh and offices across 5 countries, including UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait. We are currently serving customers and partners in over 35 different countries worldwide. Our innovative products have successfully processed over 6 billion (yes, billion with a B) orders so far! making Foodics one of the most rapidly evolving SaaS companies to ever emerge from the MENA region. Also Foodics has achieved three rounds of funding, with the latest raising $170 million in the largest SaaS funding round in MENA, boosting its innovation capabilities to better serve business owners.

The Job in a Nutshell💡

The Head of Risk and Cyber Security is responsible for establishing, leading, and maturing the organization's enterprise risk management (ERM) and information/cyber security functions. This role ensures the business identifies, assesses, and mitigates operational, financial, regulatory, and technology-related risks, while safeguarding company and customer data against cyber threats. The role acts as the primary advisor to senior leadership and the board on risk posture and security strategy.

What Will You Do❓

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Risk Management

• Design and maintain the organization's ERM framework, risk appetite statement, and risk registers.
• Lead periodic risk assessments across business units and consolidate findings into board/ERM committee reporting (including KRIs/KPIs)
• Identify emerging risks (operational, strategic, financial, regulatory, reputational) and drive mitigation planning with process owners
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Support internal audit and compliance functions with risk-based input

Key Responsibilities

Cyber & Information Security

• Develop and execute the information security strategy, policies, and controls.
• Oversee security operations: threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and…