Data Privacy Officer

4 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

Hello Future Data Privacy Officer

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

To ensure that customer data through the customer data supply chain is secured and any risks associated to privacy is mitigated.

Are you someone who can:

- Define business processes to ensure diligence and privacy.
- Review all processes to identify gaps for potential threats.
- Manage cost to income to increase profitability and efficiencies for the business.
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, and provide proactive advice and solutions to stakeholders on data privacy.
- Keep up to date with area of specialisation by assessing own performance.
- Initiate any incident response plans in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information.
- Ensure own understanding of all systems that acquire the storing and transferring of data.
- Design solutions and controls in order to resolve any possible data breaches.
- Ensure adoption and localisation of common frameworks, practices, processes, standards and integration of business data value chain.
- Ensure Platform alignment, governance, policy standards alignment and integration across relevant areas.
- Ensure ethical usage of data and information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
- Responsible for leading the Governance, Risk, and Compliance program, ensuring adherence to Data Privacy Regulations and standards outlined by various Governance Frameworks
- Formulating and implementing organization-wide policies and procedures to guarantee compliance with Laws, Industry Standards, and governance frameworks.
- Oversee auditing processes (both internal and external), conduct training sessions, develop training manuals, and perform Data Protection Impact Assessments.
- Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation, and policy.
- Ensure reporting of any Data Privacy Incidents and drives resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.
- Ensure data through the various data supply chains is secured and any risks associated to privacy is mitigated.
- Implement data privacy management to ensure required standards and practices across data production, management and consumption.
- Create innovative solutions to manage data privacy exposure in business processes.
- Minimum Qualification - Relevant BCom, BSC degree in Information Systems or Technology
- Experience - 8 - 10 years experience in managing data and understanding the privacy associated with it

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate.
- Challenging Working
- Opportunities to innovate.

Skills & Competencies
- Business insight and risk awareness
- Analytical thinking and decision making
- Analysis, Planning and Monitoring
- Relevant compliance, governance, security and risk management frameworks, methodologies, and policy
- Problem-solving

We can be a match if you are:

- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough.
- Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.

Job Details

Application Closing Date

02/04/24


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