Compliance Specialist

​POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Duties:

• Compliance Consultant will work with an existing team of 5 members, reporting into the Process Delivery Manager.

• The purpose of this role is to embed compliance under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for delivering the end-to-end process of Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR), Pre-Action Protocols (PAPs) requests and other Information requests from third parties (e.g. solicitors, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions) and employees. This is a high priority, as we are legally bound to respond.

Essential Skills:

• Experience of working in a similar role or a sensitive business area.

• Knowledge of Data Subject Access rights namely the “right to access”.

• Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work; fully invested in achieving a successful result.

• You view things as a team rather than individual project level, considering the wider team needs.

• Strong interpersonal/communication skills, including ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

• Good influencing skills.

• Strong ability to organise and ensure prioritisation of personal workload to meet tight deadlines.

• Excellent at critical thinking and confident in ability to make swift risk-based decisions.

• Strong analytical skills and highly competent in use of excel to enable and support analysis of employee master data and team activity reporting.

• Resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under time constraints, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs. 

• You must be agile, work with integrity and have the ability to make a positive impact with your colleagues and the wider organisation.

Desirable Skills:

• HR shared service experience.

• Experience of working with People Data systems i.e. SuccessFactors Plus.

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office apps such as Word, Excel & PowerPoint.

• Experience in using a range of tools within Adobe Acrobat.

• Demonstrate project management and problem-solving skills; namely technological challenges that may arise and could impact ability to meet statutory deadlines.

Education:

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred / Relevant apprenticeship or equivalent experience preferred.