Ethics and Compliance Data Privacy Specialist

Role Summary

• Conduct data privacy reviews and support program implementation.
• Communicate and liaise regularly with different internal and external stakeholders, including outside counsels.
• Work mostly independently but must have good collaborative skills to work in a group.
• Strong process management skills and process improvement.
• Conduct research on data privacy regulatory requirements, internal process and related matters.
• Support individual rights requests and regulatory enquiries.
• Regular presentations about project updates to leadership and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities aligned to the role

• Draft, design, align and improve compliance processes and templates to implement different data privacy laws and other requirements that come into effect.
• Coordinate with different stakeholders to understand and collect process requirements and advise on approaches.

• Act as a project manager for new initiatives and introduce measures for existing processes and ad-hoc initiatives.

• Conduct data privacy assessments, such as local country risk assessments, privacy reviews and/or DP Impact Assessments, to ensure compliance with data privacy program and regulations.
• Support Ventures & Acquisitions due diligence activities, and policy administration.
• Understand the contractual principles required to draft, review, and assist in negotiation data privacy schedules for contractual arrangements.
• Follow and keep track of legal changes, news and developments related to data privacy laws at global level, analyze them including their impact and prepare internal materials and communications.
• Draft internal support documents.
• Identify and support subject access/individual rights request responses in alignment with internal policies and procedures.
• Support senior data privacy counsels.

• Understand relevant Accenture policies and their application to the data privacy area, and Accenture’s business operations, regulatory environment and potential data privacy risks in regulated areas.
• Understand the different CORE (Compliance, Operations, Regulatory & Ethics) areas and the surrounding issues and statutory regulation. Build credibility and effective relationships internally within Legal team.

• Develop training for team members, Legal and other Accenture functions on data privacy processes or regulatory requirements.
• Serve as tier 1 support to inquiries about data privacy.

• Hold a law degree and have 3-4 years of experience in data privacy.
• Understand regulatory principles governing data privacy at a global level.
• Understand process flows and metrics.
• IAPP certifications, such as CIPP/E or similar, are a plus.
• Effectively manage stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Fluent in English, with strong oral and written skills, and competent in delivering presentations.
• Efficient in conducting legal research, including leveraging GenAI technology for the same.
• Proficiency in Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Proficiency in Microsoft PowerBI is a plus.
• Exercise reasonable judgment to apply company policy and procedure in risk mitigation and timely escalate issues to the line manager.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong time management, prioritization, and analytical skills.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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