Business Unit:  Chief Data Office
Career Direction: Data Protection and Privacy
Salary range: £37,000 - £47,000 per annum DOE
Location:  UK hybrid – with travel to one of our UK Virgin Money hubs when required.
Contract type: Permanent full time

Our Team

The Data Governance and Regulation (DG&R) team provide valuable support to help Virgin Money harness the value from its rich data assets. The Data Protection and Privacy function sits within DG&R. We help deliver the Bank’s innovative change agenda, by providing SME oversight, advice and guidance. Our goal is to ensure the business can process data fairly and ethically, building trust and enhancing good customer outcomes whilst also meeting our regulatory obligations.

What you’ll be doing

• The Senior Privacy Analyst will help the team embed a proactive data protection culture across the Bank, by providing subject matter expertise on all data privacy matters.
• You will build strong relationships with key Business Partners and stakeholders to ensure that Data Privacy processes are understood, met and managed in line with our policy and technical standards.
• You will help the Business complete its transformation agenda, by supporting critical and complex project and change initiatives, encouraging and building a privacy by design and default approach.
• You will support delivery of training and awareness sessions to ensure Data Protection and Privacy (DP&P) standards are upheld pan Bank.
• You will provide oversight and assessment of Data Privacy Impact Assessments, Personal Data Breach events and drive the delivery of action plans created to strengthen the DP&P risk and control environment.
• You will deliver best in class advice and guidance to business areas on data governance and privacy to support control activities, reducing DP&P risk events and maintaining compliance in line with Virgin Money’s standards and processes aligned to 2^nd Line policies.
• You will support creation of horizon scanning reports and help enhance the reporting MI suite to support compliance and risk tracking as well as keeping the business abreast of external data events, and regulatory changes.

We need you to have

• Significant demonstrable experience of working within the frameworks of UK GDPR, PECR and DPA 2018.
• An ability to analyse complex Data Protection Impact Assessments, providing effective guidance to influence and drive compliant decision making.
• Experience in translating regulatory ICO expectations into actionable, practical and meaningful advice across a varied range of stakeholders.
• Experience of communicating and presenting key messages to engage with people across all levels of the Group.
• Strong analytical skills (possibly statistical analysis) and experience of interrogating large volumes of data to identify and report on risk trends.
• Experience of prioritising competing tasks and working autonomously as part of a high performing data team.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• A professional Data Protection and Privacy Qualification
• Experience or working with Power Platforms, including Power Automate and Power BI
• Financial services experience

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. 

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. 

Advert close date is 21st May 2025