Privacy Manager - Financial Services

Newly created role to help to ensure that SSL complies with Data Protection Legislation working in collaboration with the wider financial services risk and compliance team and providing assurance to various stakeholders that we are protecting the personal data SSL process every day.

You will manage the day-to-day focus on Data Protection Oversight ensuring that a consistent framework is in place to systematically identify, measure, mitigate, report, monitor and manage the most significant data protection and privacy risks. Support the daily processes and activities that alert management about new issues and risks evolution.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities

This is a hybrid variable role requiring occasional travel to our Manchester, Newcastle or London office

What you will be doing:

• Embedding the Information Governance Policy and Framework to ensure our controls and processes are adequately documented in a clear, concise way to help manage the risks.
• Reviewing and approving Data Protection Impact Assessments to enable privacy by design and default and Supplier onboardings.
• Building strong and purposeful relationships with key stakeholders across Sopra Steria and our clients, assess best practise and become a trusted partner.
• Developing the processes and controls for the identification and monitoring of Privacy Risk with alignment to the requirements of our clients.
• Becoming a strategic partner of the 1st Line offering support, guidance and advice in relation to Privacy Risk and alignment to regulatory compliance.
• Delivering training and providing advice and guidance to various groups of colleagues, enabling greater understanding of data protection in practice and provision of quality compliance evidence.
• Supporting the Account Leadership team in relation to risk management oversight and ensuring risk requirements are documented, reported and overseen.

What you’ll bring:

• Good working understanding of the Data Protection requirements in UK Legislation (and international if possible).
• Experience in the financial services sector.
• Experience of the 3 Lines of Defence model.
• Experience of data protection compliance in a practical setting

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent
Location: Hybrid variable role requiring occasional travel to our Manchester, Newcastle or London office.
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Adrian 
Salary: Up to £45,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance and pension

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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