KSA Graduate Programme

Control Risks is a specialist risk consultancy that helps to create secure, compliant, and resilient organisations in an age of ever-changing risk. Working across disciplines, technologies and geographies, everything we do is based on our belief that taking risks is essential to our clients’ success. We go beyond problem-solving and give our clients the insight and intelligence they need to realise opportunities and grow. From the boardroom to the remotest location, we have developed an unparalleled ability to bring order to chaos and reassurance to anxiety.

Saudi Arabia is a growing, vibrant and complex market. The government’s economic diversification plan, Vision 2030, has set a path for development that will impact every sector and province. Local and international organisations must navigate a rapidly changing regulatory environment, ambitious growth objectives and workforce diversification amid a turbulent geopolitical background. Control Risks has been supporting international clients for nearly 50 years and organisations in Saudi Arabia for over two decades. Our network of experts spans 39 offices across the globe and draws on the practical experience of operating in over 170 countries. We work with some of the largest investors and multinationals across the Middle East as well as with some of the most respected companies across the energy, infrastructure, technology and telecommunications sectors.

Control Risks is seeking candidates to join our Saudi Arabia graduate trainee programme, based in our Riyadh office. As a graduate trainee you will undertake structured on the job, external, and internal training packages while also helping to deliver a range of exciting projects, from security risk consulting through to crisis management and business continuity projects to a wide range of clients, across multiple sectors, throughout the EMEA region.

Our Graduate Training Programme

Acknowledging the objectives and pillars of Saudi Arabia’s Vison 2030, Control Risks – the global leader in security and risk management – has developed a gold standard training programme for recent graduates of Saudi nationality seeking a security and risk management career in Saudi Arabia.

What’s in it for you?

Our graduate programme will equip you with the technical and management skills as well as the professional and academic qualifications to help you stand out as a leader in your field. You will receive in-house training and education and be sponsored to join a professional body that most clearly matches your interests, whether that is risk, business continuity, crisis management or security. You will also gain experience on a range of client focussed projects, from security threat and vulnerability assessment, development of corporate security strategies, through to operational security planning for major built environment and critical infrastructure projects.

Control Risks will be investing in your future. In year two of your placement, you will be sponsored and supported on a two-year executive master’s degree in a risk related topic at a leading university. On conclusion of your time on the graduate programme, you will be a highly effective and qualified risk consultant, with the knowledge and confidence to advise some of the world’s leading companies as part of the Control Risks family.

Course content:

Technical modules including

- Risk management strategy

- Strategic & operational security

- Technology and data analytics

- Crisis management

- Business continuity

- Digital and cyber

- Threat analysis

- Built environment.

Management and consultant training

- Control Risks Fundamentals

- Management development training

- Finance for non-finance professionals

- Project economics

- Communication skills

- Data literacy

- Consultant Development Programme

Requirements

- Educated to degree level.

- A deep interest in risk and security.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – the role requires a range of communication capabilities, ranging from informal/collegial, client proposals and reports, to board-level presentations.

- Professional flexibility and willingness to learn, including the ability to assimilate large quantities of specialist and complex information.

- Willingness and ability to conduct regular travel within the EMEA region, and occasional global travel.

- Full professional competency in English.

- High level of IT literacy

Role tasks and responsibilities:

- Undertaking consultancy tasks as part of team, including but not limited to security, built environment, crisis management planning, training and response, business continuity management planning and training.

- Client liaison, as a trusted advisor for Control Risks, in order to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities.

- Support to business development, proposal creation, and budget creation, prior to sign-off by management.

- Project and operational planning and management of engagements, including quality oversight of operational and document-based deliverables and compliance with Control Risks policies, standards, and methodologies.

- Adopt innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions, including thought leadership in the resilience space.

Benefits

- Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.

- We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.

- We offer considerable opportunities for professional development and enhancement, with industry-recognised qualification courses and internal training opportunities regularly offered.

- Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.

- As an equal opportunities' employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.