# Senior Manager - Data Protection

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced compliance professional with specialist expertise in data protection and privacy to join our UK Compliance team.

The role provides trusted, risk-based advice to senior business stakeholders, ensuring that data protection requirements are effectively embedded alongside FCA regulatory obligations.

**Responsibilities:**

- Act as a senior subject matter expert on UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, providing authoritative advice on privacy risks across products, customer journeys, and emerging technologies like AI.

- Provide broad compliance expertise across the FCA regulatory framework, driving appropriate customer outcomes and supporting the business in demonstrating compliance with the Consumer Duty.

- Serve as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger to senior business leaders, translating complex regulatory requirements into practical, proportionate, and commercially focused solutions.

- Review and challenge DPIAs and Legitimate Interest Assessments, ensuring customer data is used appropriately to identify and address poor customer outcomes.

- Develop strong relationships across Product, Operations, Technology, Legal, and Information Security teams to seamlessly embed FCA and data protection standards into business transformation programmes.

**The skills and experience you need:**

- Significant experience within a UK financial services Compliance, Risk, Legal, or Data Protection environment, with a specialist focus on privacy.

- Strong technical knowledge of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and ICO expectations, including hands-on experience conducting DPIAs and LIAs.

- Demonstrable experience working with the FCA regulatory framework, with the ability to apply Consumer Duty and conduct risk requirements to practical business processes.

- Proven ability to act as a strategic thinker and influential leader, confident in managing senior stakeholders and advising executives on complex, potentially contentious regulatory matters.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of simplifying complex legislation and preparing clear, succinct Board and Executive-level risk assessments.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes

- 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure

- Access premium care through private medical insurance

- Enhanced parental leave

- Up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications

## Skills

### Required
- UK GDPR
- Data Protection Act 2018
- FCA regulatory framework
- Consumer Duty
- DPIAs
- LIAs
- Information Security

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