VP - Data Privacy (FTC)

AD - Privacy, Legal and Compliance

A global banking group that offers a broad range of financial services and products, has a new vacancy within it's Group Legal and Compliance team inLondon. The team are currently looking to hire a senior Legal professional with expertise inUKdata privacy issues. This is an excellent position for a lawyer with data privacy experience that wishes to work for one of the top performing financial institutions.

As an Associate Director, your responsibilities will include:

* Work with the various business units to enable compliance with their obligations under relevant international privacy legislation & regulation
* Provide advice and guidance on keyUKdata privacy issues in the financial services sector e.g. Group wide and special projects
* Industry association liaison and representation in relation to data privacy issues
* Communicate the implications of existing as well as new and emerging privacy regulatory developments in the jurisdictions in which they operate
* provide leadership in relation to the governance and controls measures in place in order to ensure data privacy compliance on existing and new initiatives

Skills/Experience needed:

* A law degree or lawyer, with post qualification legal experience in an organisation or law firm. A practising certificate is not required.
* An understanding of data privacy governance models and controls.
* A good understanding of UK Data Protection regulatory obligations and a good technical understanding of international privacy legislation and regulation.
* An ability to apply data protection and data privacy obligations to a commercial context within the financial services industry
* A good understanding of privacy governance and controls in relation to technologies used in the financial services sector
* Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate privacy issues in a non-technical way to the business. Confident individual able to communicate with clarity and purpose both in written and verbal formats

Salary: £70 - £80k + benefits + bonus

Location:CanaryWharf

If you are of a legal background and wish to work for one of the top financial services provider's in the world; please send your CV to me for consideration.To find out more about Real please visit www.realstaffing.com