Compliance & Ethics Counsel Specialist

Role Summary

• Support the Data Privacy Risk & Governance Legal function with legal review and implementation, legal advice; etc.
• Communicate and liaise regularly with different internal and external stakeholders.
• Works mostly independently but must have good collaborative skills to work in group also.
• Has strong process management skills, process improvement and team handling responsibilities.
• Conduct research on regulatory requirements, internal process and related matters;
• Has a critical thinking, is pro-active, organized and consistent in its performance.
• Manage Strategic Projects and any ad-hoc assignment including but not limited to contract review, compliance audit and legal research;
• Liaise with outside counsel and internal stakeholders;
• Has a good management of different apps, dashboard and other collaborative tools.
• Perform regular presentations about the project updates to leadership.

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Generic Responsibilities

• Understand process improvements in Compliance, Operations, Regulatory & Ethics (CORE) support area and assist team in drafting, designing and/or improving processes;
• Act as a PMO for projects.
• Demonstrate promptness, accuracy and consistency with the activities supported.
• Directly leasing with internal stakeholders on various legal issues and external stakeholders-
• Manage SharePoint and communication records and assist team members on the process by checklists and process documents
• Understand the Core areas and the surrounding issues and statutory regulation.
• Understand Accenture corporation and its different functions and Teams.
• Understand relevant company policies and its application to CORE support area;
• Understand company's functions in context of CORE support area and in particular Data Privacy Laws;

• Understand company's approval processes and ensures that all stakeholders are timely engaged and informed on the relevant process;
•  Understand company’s business operations, regulatory environment and potential areas of risk in delivery;
• Support implementation of new initiatives in CORE support area or within Legal (in addition to allocated role);
• Build credibility and effective relationships internally within Legal team;
• Suggest and work towards introducing process measures for ad-hoc and new service lines;

• Develop training for team members on processes or regulation requirements;
• Assist in negotiation and to drive closure of contracts;
• Provide individuals with positive and developmental feedback, and support any specific Legal Services training initiatives
• Provide training or support to Legal Services specific training;
• Ensure excellence of output of CORE team members through guidance and review support (e.g. conducting effective QA of other team members' deliverable);
• Support implementation of new initiatives in CORE support area or within Legal Services (in addition to allocated role);
• Provide coaching and mentoring of Legal Services personnel; and
• Supervise Level 9 or below (as required).

Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role

• Manage V&A Due diligence activities, policy administration.
• Provide Data Privacy SME support for Marketing activities (Cookie Guidance and website advertising).
• Assist in developing processes to implement different data privacy laws that come into enforcement such as GDPR,
• Run different Data Privacy assessments such as Local Country Risk Assessment to ensure compliance of data privacy programs.
• Coordinate with different stakeholders to understand and collect processes requirement. Advise on processes approaches.
• Draft internal support documents with Data Privacy laws advice.
• Review training materials.
• Assist in the process to acquire software to be used to comply with data privacy laws requirements (assessment tools)
• Serve as tier 1 support to inquiries hitting the Data Privacy mailbox.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Understands regulatory principles governing Data Protection at global level. 
• IAPP certifications such as CIPP/E or similar (desired)
• Understands process flows and metrics
• Understand corporate business practices and contracting regulations.
• Effectively manage stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Good understanding of contractual principles required to draft, review, assist in negotiation for contractual arrangements;
• Understand relevant company policies and exercises reasonable judgment to apply company policy and procedure in risk mitigation and timely escalates to line manager with issues
• Understand company's interests while communicating with executives at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrate understanding of company's approval processes and ensures that all stakeholders are timely engaged and informed on the relevant process
• Understand negotiation skills
• Strong time management, prioritization and analytical skills;

• Fluent in English with strong oral and written skills and competent in delivering presentations
• Efficient in conducting legal research
• Display high level of responsiveness and follows through on commitments;
• Detail-oriented, organized, flexible and focused at all times; and
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Word skills.

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