Senior Data Privacy Analyst

FNZ is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.

Our services enable our clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors and the workplace. We pride ourselves on creating solutions that are flexible, transparent and scalable, reflecting the latest market, demographic and regulatory trends worldwide.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Privacy Analyst to ensure compliance with global privacy regulations and safeguard sensitive information across FNZ. This role is pivotal in assessing privacy risks, implementing data protection frameworks, and driving awareness about privacy best practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and a hands-on approach to identifying and mitigating privacy risks in both structured and unstructured datasets.

This position will involve consultancy as subject matter expert, leadership of business work streams and the proactive identification, reporting, management and resolution of requirements, solutions, risks and issues throughout the full project lifecycle.

Privacy Compliance and Regulation Management will be vital, so the key responsibilities are:

• Ensure compliance with global, regional, and industry-specific data protection regulations, including GDPR, POPIA. Also knowledge of PIPEDA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FDPA, PDPB etc would be beneficial.

• Maintain and update the organisation’s privacy policies and procedures in line with evolving regulations.

• Reducing the frequency and severity of Data risk events (breaches and disclosures).

• Assist in managing regulated activities such as GDPR data subject access requests (DSARs), Due Diligence (DD’s), Records of Processing (ROPAs) etc ensuring compliance.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation:

• Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIAs) and data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) for new and existing systems or processes.

• Identify, analyse, and mitigate data privacy risks by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Investigate and respond to potential data breaches, ensuring compliance with breach notification requirements.

Training and Awareness:

• Design and deliver privacy awareness programs for employees to promote data protection best practices.

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for data privacy queries across departments.

Technology and Process Implementation:

• Support the deployment and management of data loss prevention (DLP) tools and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).

• Partner with IT teams to ensure secure data handling, encryption, and pseudonymization techniques.

• Collaborate on the implementation of privacy-by-design principles in projects and workflows.

Reporting and Auditing:

• Develop and present regular reports on privacy risks, incidents, and compliance metrics to senior leadership.

• Conduct audits of internal processes and third-party vendors to ensure adherence to privacy standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data privacy, information security, or data protection.

• Strong knowledge of global data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA).

• Experience conducting PIAs, DPIAs, and privacy audits.

• Familiarity with privacy technologies like OneTrust, TrustArc, or similar tools.

• Strong understanding of privacy-by-design and default principles.

• Experience in incident management and breach response.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

• Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement and training.

Preferred certifications:

• CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT from IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals).

• ISO 27701 Lead Auditor/Implementer certification.

• Certifications in information security, such as CISSP, CRISC, or CEH.

Opportunities

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies.

• Remuneration and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority;

• We provide significant financial rewards for high performing individuals; and

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, Czech Republic, Australia or New Zealand.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.