Senior Data Privacy Advisor

Posted 5 hours 29 minutes ago by J & C Associates Ltd

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Lanarkshire, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G32 0
Job Description

We are a Global IT Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across UK, Europe, and Australia. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: Senior Data Privacy Advisor
Location: Glasgow - 2 days onsite and 3 days remote
Duration: End of the year

Key Accountabilities:

Sector: Financial Services

Role Overview:

Our financial services client are looking for a Senior Data Privacy Advisor to oversee and maintain European and APAC privacy programmes, providing leadership and advice to the business on all area's of Data Protection. This is a high profile role working closely with the Head of Data Privacy, Data Privacy leads in each Business vertical, Data Privacy Compliance, and other Data stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Act as a Senior Data Privacy subject matter expert and advisor

Advise the business in line with relevant policies and standards related to Data Privacy

Report, record, and monitor Data Privacy related incidents, breaches, and risk events.

Ensure Data Privacy assurance for new product and technology change processes

Communicate relevant changes to Data Privacy related law and regulations to business stakeholders and collaborate to implement any required operational changes

Building and maintain key stakeholder relationships across the business

Maintain accurate and up to date records of DP relevant artifacts

Maintenance and updating of the business' RoPA and annual review of privacy notices

Data Protection training development for Data Protection functional leads and the wider population.

Managing international PII data transfer risks

Data Privacy compliance and assurance processes.

Oversight of data privacy incidents, issues, remediation and lessons learned

Essential Experience:

Previous Data Privacy leadership experience

Strong Privacy and Data Protection background.

Excellent knowledge of UK, European and global data protection laws.

Consultative pragmatic approaches to proactively drive change

Excellent communication skills.

Successfully influencing behaviours and driving change at all levels of a large enterprise

Strong technical and regulatory knowledge in the areas of Data Privacy

Navigate a fast paced business environment making effective decisions in light of business objectives and commercial factors

Privacy impact and privacy risk and control assessments

Data Privacy conformance testing, reviews, and assurance

Desirable:

Financial Services background preferred, but open to other sectors.

Previous Business, Compliance or Legal experience

CIPP/E certified.

Certifications in data privacy, legal, compliance information risk or information technology

BCS qualification in Data Protection

Data breach incident management