Your role
As Risk Partner – Data Privacy, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the privacy of our customers and colleagues. You will oversight operational processes and business initiatives ensure alignment with internal and legal and regulatory requirements and risk appetite. You’ll act as a strategic advisor to senior management and point of contact for our Data Protection Officer, providing expert guidance on privacy-related matters and driving compliance across the organisation.
A day in the life of a Risk Partner – Data Privacy
You start your day reviewing the latest regulatory updates and assessing their impact on our privacy framework. A quick sync with the Team Lead sets the tone for the day. You then join a cross-functional meeting to advise on a new initiative, ensuring privacy by design is embedded from the start. After lunch, you prepare a dashboard for the monthly risk committee, highlighting key metrics and recent breach trends. In the afternoon, you lead a workshop with business stakeholders to improve awareness of data handling practices. Before wrapping up, you respond to an auditor’s inquiry, confident in the robustness of our controls.
Which team will you be joining?
This role is within the Data, Security & Technology team (Data-ICS), part of the Non-Financial Risk department. The team consists of 11 dedicated professionals, including specialists in Data Privacy as well as Data Management, IT and Security risk. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the business and auditors to ensure our privacy practices remain robust, transparent, and future-proof.
Your Accountabilities
- Define and update data privacy policies, procedures, and standards.
- Ensure compliance with internal requirements and law and regulations , regarding personal data.
- Advise senior management on privacy matters.
- Coordinate privacy initiatives with internal and external stakeholders.
- Review privacy assessments of change initiatives.
- Provide ad hoc privacy advice to cross-functional teams.
- Perform second-line compliance monitoring for data privacy.
- Conduct ongoing risk assessments and manage privacy-related controls.
- Monitor legal and regulatory changes and adapt local processes accordingly.
- Develop and maintain KPIs related to data privacy.
- Present privacy updates and breach dashboards to internal forums.
- Lead internal and external audits related to privacy.
Who you are
You are a seasoned risk professional with a strong legal or compliance background and a passion for data protection. You thrive in complex environments, are proactive, and bring clarity to regulatory challenges. You’re a natural communicator, able to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.
Key Competencies
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Minimum 8 years’ experience in risk or compliance roles.
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Deep understanding of GDPR and related regulations.
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Strong knowledge of risk control models and reporting.
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Proven ability to interpret complex information and support decision-making.
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Experience developing operational policies and improving processes.
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Excellent planning, organisation, and analytical skills.
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Fluent in German or Dutch and English (written and verbal).
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Hands-on mentality, self-motivated, and well-organised.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Law, Economics, or equivalent.
- Risk Management or Certified Compliance Officer qualification preferred.
Some highlights of our benefits for you!
- 13th-month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December.
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on full-time employment).
- Non-contributory pension scheme.
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs.
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
After you have submitted your application, our recruiter Stanley Waccary will reach out to you to plan a short introductory chat via Teams.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send your application, including your paper on risk elements within the mortgage market, to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.