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Maintain, implement and enhance governance processes by remaining abreast of any updates made to regulatory and compliance policies related to the Bank to ensure that legal entity remain in good standing with the overall policies of the Standard Bank Group.

Inform and advise stakeholders within the legal entity by disseminating best practice data privacy advice to guide individuals in the legal entity around the Group’s policies and data protection legislation to ensure the legal entity remains compliant with its obligations.

Investigate, analyse and interpret system information in order to provide reporting tools support, input into training on data privacy to ensure that staff members are familiar with data privacy policies, tools, requirements and processes, to enhance the performance and deliverables to clients.

Analyse and interpret the Data Privacy strategy, in order to clearly formulate business requirements related the Data Privacy policies, processes, procedures, dashboards and reporting tools, in order to optimise business analysis tools, thus to allow business to make accountable strategic decisions.

Manage and oversee the day-to-day legal entity business operations, in their enablement of data subject rights as outlined in the domestic data protection legislation.

Support and collaborate with the legal entity Data Privacy Officer in operationalising both the operating model and incident management plan for the legal entity.

Collaborate with the group data privacy teams, legal entity Product Owners, Product Manager and IT, on a regular basis to address and mitigate issues and provide input into the prioritisation of work, to ensure the management of potential risk and compliance issues for in-country data privacy legislative and regulated requirements.

Provide reports on assessment and audit trails for review, as supporting evidence for all changes made on the system, processes and procedures as per compliance and risk management regulations.

Liaise and ensure proper client relationship with internal and external stakeholders, keeping them informed as to decisions, resolutions and progress on enquiries and system enhancements and changes.

Contribute to the implementation, oversight and maintenance of the legal entity’s Data Privacy and Protection Policy Universe, data management contract and regulatory matrix to ensure the appropriate governance and compliance restrictions are being applied and upheld to mitigate any potential gaps in data privacy and protection.

Support and assist the legal entity Data Privacy Officer with developing and compiling relevant reports to internal committees and the domestic data protection regulator.

Participate in Privacy Impact Assessments in collaboration with Group, Business Unit, and Legal Entity stakeholders and involving Procurement and Group Information Security or other stakeholder groups to manage and mitigate Privacy risk to the legal entity.

Participate in the consolidation of a Group Regulatory Universe with Group colleagues and other Group affiliates in the same jurisdiction as the legal entity.

Develop a deep understanding of the global regulatory environment affecting Data Privacy and Data Protection, specific to the legal entity’s processes and practices by being a key stakeholder in the process to deliver relevant advice and strategic guidance to process owners on applicable privacy laws, regulations, and best practices.