Compliance & Ethics Counsel Assoc Manager - NRR 3923

Accenture; Milano; In loco; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading company in consulting is seeking a legal advisor specializing in data privacy to join their team in Milan. The role involves supporting legal professionals, ensuring compliance, conducting legal research, and providing training on data privacy laws. Ideal applicants will possess a law degree and at least five years of relevant experience in data privacy matters. Strong communication and project management skills are essential for success in this multicultural environment.

Competenze

• Minimum 5 years of experience in data privacy.
• English proficiency; other languages are a plus.
• IAPP certifications like CIPP/E are desired.

Mansioni

• Provide legal support on data privacy issues.
• Draft guidance materials and templates for internal use.
• Collaborate with various legal areas on compliance.

Conoscenze

Data Privacy Laws

Legal Drafting

Legal Research

Communication

Project Management

Decision-Making

Formazione

Law Degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Role Summary

• Support legal professionals and internal business teams by providing data privacy advice on internal applications and analytics initiatives, and coordinating legal reviews from a broad legal perspective (beyond data privacy)

• Reviewing legal assessments questionnaires, drafting data privacy assessments and initiative summary decks.
• Legal research on data privacy laws and regulations in jurisdictions, at global level.
• Work autonomously on low-risk initiative, with supervision from senior counsels for medium and high-risk initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Global Data Privacy team, in connection with data privacy issues involved in the Advisory Function.
• Provide support and advice with an overall aim to ensure compliance with data privacy requirements and corporate standards and policies.
• Follow legal developments in the data privacy area and perform legal research.
• Draft guidance materials and legal document templates for internal us. Provide training sessions or create training materials for other areas.
• Participate in required trainings and work sessions.
• Report to Advisory Function Lead or a designee, and GLN Core supervisor.

Specific Responsibilities

• Act as the legal area coordinator/contact for cross legal areas reviews related to internal data processing globally e.g. platform, application, tool and analytic initiatives.
• Obtain a deep understanding about the internal initiative from a technical perspective to be able to provide relevant legal advice.
• Identify impacted legal areas and pre-assess the initiative from a broad legal standpoint.
• Share recommendations and knowledge effectively with all legal and operational areas that need to be involved in the assessment of the initiative.
  • Identify potential areas of legal/compliance vulnerability and risk, develop/implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues and provide guidance on how to avoid or deal with such issues from a general legal perspective.
  • Collaborate and consult with all legal areas (from a global and local perspective) to ensure key legal/ compliance issues are identified and sent to appropriate channels for investigation and review.
  • Consult with other areas (e.g. employee relations, procurement) as needed to identify and resolve any legal compliance issues.
• Review legal advice received from global and local legal counsels, follow-up with questions where necessary and liaise with external legal counsel, if required. Provide consistent and pragmatic recommendations/guidance to initiative managers and leads (business stakeholders).
• Assist in dealing with any legal operational issues (e.g. review changes to global policies, assist with those working on works council notifications, etc.).
• Generate reusable tools and propose improvements for repeatable tasks.
• Support Advisory Function within the Global Data Privacy Team and communicate and liaise regularly with different internal legal teams and stakeholders.
• Perform presentations about the project updates to legal colleagues and project stakeholders.
• Supervise Level 9 and below (as required).

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Holds a law degree and experience in data privacy matters for at least 5 years.
• English language proficiency. Other languages may be an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in data privacy laws. Strong legal advice and drafting skills.
• IAPP certifications such as CIPP/E or similar are desired
• General understanding or ability to understand general legal issues relating to employment, IP, artificial intelligence, confidential information, contracts, litigation, corporate investigations, cybersecurity, marketing, trade compliance, and ethics.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, ability to make decisions and an elevated level of common sense.
• Ability to influence, strong executive presence. Ability to collaborate effectively with global and local legal colleagues across all functions.
• Demonstrate strong project/program management and operational skills to lead cross-functional projects, especially in a multi-cultural environment.
• Strong time management, prioritization and organizational skills.
• IT skills and confidence learning new technology.