Senior Consultant - Data Privacy and Trust Ernst & Young AE

As a, data privacy and technology compliance senior you'll deliver client engagements as well as internal projects.

You will help clients gain insights into their privacy programs and capabilities to maintain compliance to local and global privacy regulations while building consumer trust.

Consult with privacy and data protection managers to determine the role of IT systems in an organization.

Research emerging Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to determine if installing them can increase the organization s efficiency and effectiveness and identify any potential impact in privacy.

Advise clients on managing their privacy programs to mitigate their business risks. Assess privacy programs and strategies using our proprietary framework, design solutions to remediate gaps or enhance maturity of specific privacy capabilities, improve measurements and monitoring, and develop sustainable processes to enable our clients to achieve business goals and mitigate their risks.

Travel within MENA up to 80% of the time.

Skills and attributes for success

Client Responsibilities

Consistently deliver quality client services.

Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.

Demonstrate technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Demonstrate ability to assimilate to new knowledge.

Remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.

Demonstrate and apply a thorough understanding of complex data processing systems. Use knowledge of the current data processing environment and industry trends to identify engagement and client service issues and communicate this information to the engagement team and client management through written correspondence and verbal presentations.

To qualify for the role, you must have

A Bachelor s degree or Masters degree in Computer Science, Management Science, Information Security, Data, Law or a related field and 3 to 5 years of work experience.

Knowledge and 2 to 3 years of hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Assessing client risk and compliance against privacy regulations
• Designing or operationalizing functional privacy within or on behalf of a business. - Providing support of privacy enhancing technology (PET).

Knowledge and 2 to 3 years of practical experience with common frameworks (including GDPR, PDPL, etc.), standards and methodologies used in the data protection and privacy field.

Practical experience with conducting risk assessments and testing of data protection and privacy controls

Excellent analytical skills and knowledge of data analytics methods

Ideally possess one of the following certifications: CIPP, CIPM or CIPT.

Solid knowledge and experience presenting using MS Power Point, Excel and Visio.

Solid oral and written communication skills.

Experience on writing reports on findings and analysis of privacy issues.

What we look for

We re interested in intellectually curious people with a genuine passion for data protection and privacy. If you have the confidence in both your presentation and technical abilities to grow into a leading expert here, this is the role for you.