Job Title: Senior Data Privacy Advisor
Clearance required: N/A
Contract Inside IR35
Location: Tradeston, Glasgow - 5 days per week on site

Sector: Financial Services

Job Description:
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