Overview
An exciting opportunity for a dedicated privacy lawyer in one of Australia's leading banks. Highly autonomous role in a dynamic team. You will have broad exposure across the CBA Group and manage a broad range of privacy law matters. Hybrid working arrangements available.
Responsibilities
* Providing privacy law advice on complex and high impact matters across the entire CBA Group.
* Strategic input on banking industry consultations, initiatives and advocacy on emerging laws in privacy, digital identity, and the Consumer Data Right.
* Advising on privacy and data governance risks and opportunities for Group AI projects and partnerships.
* Leading the Legal and Group Secretariat engagement with the OAIC (including data breach notification, preliminary inquiries, conciliations and investigations).
* Work as a senior member of the legal team, providing specialist privacy advice to CBA's business units, regarding new products, compliance, transactions and international activities.
* Lead effective and proactive engagement with key stakeholders and senior management across the Group; provide insights on privacy and data risk and clear and actionable recommendations to mitigate that risk.
* Where necessary, manage external legal engagement on specific matters, transactions or regulatory responses.
* Actively contribute to team culture excelling in customer service, simplifying processes and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
* Where opportunities arise, lead, mentor and develop the team's Legal Counsel/Junior Legal Counsels.
Qualifications
* Minimum 6 years PQE with a current practising certificate.
* Deep experience in complex privacy advisory matters, including advice on significant initiatives, products and processes involving customer data.
* Experience advising regulated industries (banking, energy, telecommunications) or those with large customer data sets (loyalty programs, supermarkets, aviation) will be beneficial.
* Experience advising on international privacy laws, Consumer Data Right matters, digital identity / identity verification matters, complex data breach incidents, data analytics projects and ad tech is preferred (but not essential).
* Strong technical legal, analytical and statutory interpretation skills and exceptional written and verbal communication.
* A demonstrated ability to build and influence trusted relationships across large and varied stakeholder groups, then partner with those groups to drive commercial outcomes.
* Best practice for delivery of legal services and a proactive, solutions focussed approach.
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