# Senior Data Protection Specialist (3 months FTC)

**Company**: Thunes
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Senior Data Protection Specialist, you will provide immediate, high-impact operational support to deliver personal data protection controls and compliance at Thunes.

This 3-month fixed-term contract focuses on accelerating key privacy deliverables, managing active workflows, and maintaining compliance frameworks.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal and sensitive data.

Key Responsibilities:

- Take immediate ownership of driving and accelerating some aspects of vendor data protection reviews to ensure robust third-party processing practices.

- Conduct efficient reviews of new technologies and projects to identify privacy risks, execute Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs), and Transfer Impact Assessments (TIAs) using OneTrust.

- Facilitate the execution of an organisation-wide data inventory and RoPA enhancement project leveraging the OneTrust platform.

- Manage the end-to-end operational workflow for Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), Erasure requests, and other regulatory rights requests to ensure statutory deadlines are met.

- Deliver immediate, actionable data protection advice to business units, helping them navigate privacy risks during the contract term.

What We Are Looking For:

- 4+ years of professional experience advising on data protection and privacy matters, with a proven ability to hit the ground running in a short-term contract.

- Experience within the international cross-border payments industry is highly desirable.

- Contract/Project Delivery: A proven track record of entering fast-paced global environments and immediately managing a varied workload with minimal onboarding.

- Regulatory Knowledge: Deep, current understanding of global data protection legislation and international data transfer requirements.

- Support with the review, negotiation, and drafting of Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and privacy clauses in contracts, preparing them for final escalation and sign off.

Skills and Qualifications:

- OneTrust Expertise: Advanced proficiency and hands-on experience using the OneTrust platform for data mapping, inventory, and assessments is essential.

- Highly self-motivated and capable of working independently from day one to drive projects to completion.

- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups under tight deadlines.

- Detail-oriented with the agility to thrive immediately in a fast-paced, global fintech environment.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in law, compliance, IT, or a relevant field.

- CIPP/E, CIPM, or equivalent professional privacy certifications are preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- OneTrust
- data protection
- privacy
- compliance
- regulatory knowledge

### Nice to have
- CIPP/E
- CIPM
- professional privacy certifications

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