European Privacy Counsel - Financial Giant - London

We are seeking a lawyer specialising in privacy law to join our client, a financial services giant. This position will be responsible for supporting, initiating and driving efforts to provide best-in-class data protection-focused legal advice across the business to ensure compliance with applicable EMEA data protection laws, rules and regulations.

The key accountabilities in this role include, but are not limited to, providing legal advice to the companies and affiliates in the UK and throughout EMEA on the full range data protection issues, including GDPR, Binding Corporate Rules, EU/US Privacy Shield and Interest Based Advertising as well as providing privacy legal advice and support on collecting, sharing and accessing personal data, digital marketing initiatives, opt-out choices, etc., to ensure that AXP’s practices around personal data are in compliance with applicable law and company policies. You will be serving as data protection legal “subject matter expert” to colleagues in the GCO, AXP Privacy Office, Compliance and the businesses.

The successful candidate will have at least four years PQE, significant privacy experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal environment as well as a deep understanding of corporate transactions: negotiating and drafting a variety of complex commercial agreements, drafting privacy policies. You will be team oriented and  self-motivated, with a proactive, pragmatic attitude to help resolve novel, complex issues. If you have strong knowledge of data protection regulations in European markets, we’d like to hear from you.