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GDPR Data Specialist

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
2 to 6 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow. Join us today and release yours.

There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

Secondly, the one thing the pandemic has taught us is that a lot of current and future colleagues, where and when possible, want to embrace hybrid working. Therefore, we are introducing smart working at BT. Smart working means having the flexibility to choose, as a team, how and where you work depending on your team’s deliverables and needs; when you are at your shared core location to connect with others and when not. It may not be for every role, and, as part of the recruitment process, you’ll have the chance to discuss smart working and how it might work for the job you are applying for.

About this role

BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. As the team who architect, design, deliver, operate, transform, and protect BT’s global primary IT assets, IT applications and critical supporting infrastructure - IT is the organisation upon which all customer service depends; this is a c.£1BN / annum business that employs c.5500 people globally.

The purpose of these roles forms part of corporate governance in which a management provides accurate and current information to stakeholders about the efficiency and effectiveness of its policies and operations, and the status of its compliance with statutory obligations.

Theses compliance & assurance managers play a crucial role in IT by ensuring that IT Applications meet the requirements and risk acceptable thresholds. They plan, direct, and coordinate the operational assurance activities and are the primary interface into the operational owners who are responsible for ensuring controls, mitigations & policies are effective for the applications under their responsibility. They also work to improve technologies efficiency and profitability by reducing waste, duplication and unnecessary risk mitigation that falls beyond our risk appetite.

You'll have the following responsibilities

  • Data Compliance: identify where issues with legality and ethics within Digital are taking place and will fix them quickly and effectively. Recognize the seriousness of potential ethics breach within digital and manage the controls to mitigate the risks.
  • Data Risk: management of the control process used when acquiring, storing, transforming, and using its data, from creation to retirement, to eliminate data risk.
  • Assurance & Compliance: Operate unit wide assurance and compliance programs in line with BT processes.
  • Strategy: Staying abreast of internal, external, and international rules and regulations pertaining to IT security, governance, and risk mitigation. Prepare and update policy, documentation and processes based on recognised standards, risk mitigation and defined business requirements such as those published by the International Organisation for Standardisation. They will direct, inspect, influence, and advise specific manuals, process and protocols that apply for specific IT applications and the risk profile surrounding the purpose and data processed by these systems.
  • Reporting and empirical data analysis: Employ skills in quantitative measurement and review statistical data outputs to identify quality and compliance problems. Analyse the data and recommend changes to processes, mitigations, or controls to eliminate the problem or unacceptable risks. Analyse records of compliance and governance programme returns to identify specific problems or trends over time and develop and monitor continuous improvement culture, aiming to reduce the number of unacceptable risks, defects and improve overall levels of quality and compliance.
  • Change Agent: Driving cultural change by ensuring that employees working in IT operations & development are aware of quality, security, and compliance requirements. Provide advice and guidance in best practices and share knowledge with the aim to make operational owners responsible for managing their own assurance, quality, and compliance standards. Deliver awareness activities to promote a quality, risk and compliance aware culture that delivers right sized mitigation against the risk appetite.
  • Continuous improvement: Reduce cost and improve overall risk management, quality, and compliance by been able to quantify and prioritise the consequences of a non-compliance or ineffective control. Maintain, communicate, and use a library of lessons learnt to articulate potential business impact and reduce the reoccurrence of triggered risks and issues. Deliver targeted work and defined outputs relating to all aspects of IT governance, critical financial reporting IT controls and compliance. Holding application support and operational teams to account through a quality supporting closed loop control process to ensure overt and apparent ownership and that progress has been taken.
  • Driving risk and compliance awareness - Execute a comprehensive and highly effective process wrap to help produce risk line of sight reporting to the MD IT and leadership Team. This will layout the biggest material issues that cannot be resolved through other means enabling directors time to be used on the key exceptional IT Control items that need their personal attention. Freeing up the managing director, senior management team & platform directors to drive a focus on the real compliance, internal control items and risks that impact on delivery of Technology’s compliance obligations.

You'll have the following skills & experience

  • Technical Capabilities: working knowledge of data compliance obligations and control processes required to underpin them.
  • Storytelling with data: Excellent analytical and communication skills to accurately document and present data in non-technical terms
  • Business acumen: Expert knowledge of IT Control frameworks and the critical dependencies between IT controls as a building block to financial reporting control and how they impact to BTs overall business controls & processes.
  • People Management: Ability to work with stakeholder’s up-to and including Managing Director, ability to instil, develop and hold the trust and confidence of wider senior stakeholder base across organisational boundaries. A good communicator both written and verbal.
  • Risk Management: A sound knowledge of enterprise risk management and having undertaken BT Enterprise Risk Management training. A thorough understanding of BT’s three lines of defence model. Must know how to establish, execute, and evaluate risk-based plans and monitoring programs. Also, good understanding of Industry certifications such as PCI, ISO27001, SOX, TSR
  • Data confidentiality: Demonstrate absolute discretion on matters that could affect teams, individuals, or themselves personally or the Group at large if disclosed and responsible enough to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.
  • Customer Focused: Have excellent interpersonal skills to influence others, and technical skills to identify IT issues and develop customized solutions of differing scope, flexibility, and complexity.
  • Experienced in providing expert knowledge to the senior owners of audit issues, supporting them to deliver optimum level of assurance against issues raised by audit for the lowest cost. (MDs, Platform Directors and Senior Management Team Members).
  • Expert experience in delivering against QMS audit certification requirements and track record of maintaining compliance for a large business unit.
  • Expert Proficiency in performing risk assessments, business impact and vulnerability assessments and defining risk mitigation strategies. Significant experience across IT Audit, Risk Management, Information Security and External Regulation & Compliance.
  • Expert Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as SOX, PCI, Data Protection and GDPR.
  • Significant experience of leading and performing due diligence reviews & audits against commercial, operational, Information Security, information technology and internal control frameworks.
  • Project management awareness

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • 10% on target bonus
  • Life Assurance
  • Pension scheme
  • Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
  • 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
  • Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
  • BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
  • 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

The way communications is changing the world is one of the most significant forces of our time. And we believe the business we’re in is transforming the future for the better.
When we laid the first telephone lines, we started a technology revolution. These days, life and work is built around being connected. That’s why we never stop improving our network.…


The way communications is changing the world is one of the most significant forces of our time. And we believe the business we’re in is transforming the future for the better.

When we laid the first telephone lines, we started a technology revolution. These days, life and work is built around being connected. That’s why we never stop improving our network. And why we want everyone to benefit from our investment in fibre.

Through us, millions of people in over 170 countries connect with friends and family, and have a universe of information and entertainment at their fingertips. For businesses large and small, we’re the infrastructure that helps them work more productively and compete in global markets. We underpin everything from economic growth to many of society’s essential services.

Every day, our 110,000 people use their expertise to build on our network’s capabilities, explore the latest technologies, and create new possibilities, across the globe.

Telecom
London
66 employees