- Advise on and help manage privacy compliance requirements for Ant Group's business across EMEA, including reviewing and drafting privacy notices and privacy policies, managing data access and data subject requests, and conducting internal training on data protection and privacy.
- Understand and interpret applicable privacy laws and other legal and regulatory requirements and licensing conditions with respect to data protection and privacy, and work with other legal and compliance teams, business teams, as well as Info-security, IT and customer services to implement privacy requirements.
- Monitor, analyse and respond to developments in data protection and data security in the EMEA region (., new laws, regulations, important judgments, regulatory guidance, and provide practical legal advice in cross-functional, multinational projects to ensure compliance with applicable laws and to mitigate legal risks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Provide privacy support to new product launches and initiatives in the EMEA region such as attending product initiative meetings, analysing products and initiatives and assessing privacy risks across multiple jurisdictions, advising on the data privacy issues, and providing practical solutions to mitigate privacy risks, taking into account possible product roll-out in other jurisdictions.
- Assess and advise on any data privacy related initiatives and ongoing projects in EMEA, and provide practical solutions to mitigate privacy risks.
- Coordinate surveys with external counsel across different jurisdictions to meet tight product launch timelines.
- Assessing legal risk, performing privacy impact assessments and maintaining privacy-related internal assessments and records.
- Training employees on data privacy laws and practices, conducting legitimate interest assessments.
- Assisting with incident reporting and investigation, collaborating with product counsel to ensure legal requirements and privacy controls are implemented in products.
- Support audit exercises, due diligence exercises and license application processes.
- Qualified to practice law in the UK (preferred) or other European jurisdictions.
- 2-8 years of relevant post-qualification legal experience (. at a law firm or as in-house counsel) in Corporate M&A and Commercial law.
- Privacy experience preferred but not essential.
- Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of the value drivers of the business.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in fast-paced environment and provide pragmatic and considered advice under tight deadline.
- Possess a practical approach to problem-solving and be able to counsel internal clients with clear, concise and creative advice on timelines to meet business needs.
- A team player who can effectively work with stakeholders cooperatively and efficiently.
- Experience in financial services is advantageous.
Data Privacy Counsel - London, United Kingdom - WorldFirst
Description
Description
Position at Ant GroupIntroduction:
We're WorldFirst, an international payments business helping move money around the world. We became part of Ant Group in 2019, accelerating our mission to create the world's best platform for international trade by combining WorldFirst's products with Ant's solutions aimed at enabling the digitalization of the modern services industry globally.
We have a shared purpose 'to make it easy to do business anywhere.' Together, we are advancing our shared aim of bringing innovative, inclusive and affordable services to small and medium-sized businesses and online merchants in the rapidly growing area of cross-border trade.
The role:
We are seeking a Data Privacy Counsel to support Ant Group's business in EMEA to work closely with business development personnel, financial institutions, risk management and other legal/compliance/AML/data privacy professionals, as well as tech and operations teams for Ant Group's businesses globally. The Data Privacy counsel will work with such parties to implement and monitor data protection and privacy policies and ensure compliance with applicable data privacy law and regulations.
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