Associate - Legal Counsel

Job Description:

Responsibilities

•  Lead and collaborate in the formulation of policies related to the collection and processing of personally identifiable information, based on the Privacy & Data Protection Laws of the countries in which the company/its subsidiaries operate implement and monitor the data privacy policies and associated processes across functions and business units.

• Proactively partner with functional groups (HR, CAO, IT etc.) to ensure that the adoption of new technologies, processes, services, and solutions are compliant with the applicable data privacy regulations

• Assess the development & enhancements of internal processes & systems and recommend privacy-related controls.

• Conduct employee awareness on lawful handling of personally identifiable information, as part of their work.

• Identify risks and also plan and implement the risk mitigation plans

• Lead the data breach handling process for effective addresal of privacy-related gaps (if any) reported, in the current process & systems.

• Manage the process related to personal data access requests from individuals.

• Assess subcontracting/outsourcing of any processing of personally identifiable information and recommend privacy-related controls (including the inclusion of appropriate clauses in the vendor contract.

• Liaison with external Privacy and Data Protection Counsel for expert views and audits.

• Identify and implement internal initiatives on Data Privacy.

• Partner with the various teams on contracts for new products (including cloud-based) and recommend privacy-related features/controls, in summary, Privacy by Design.

Qualification & Experience

• LLB, LLM

• 5 to 7 years of experience

• Experience in dealing with transactional matters in the financial services industry