Sr. Compliance Specialist

The Sr. Compliance Specialist is responsible for the facilitation, coordination, and execution of regulatory-related projects (with a current emphasis in privacy) on behalf of DFAs Value Integrity Compliance Program. Work involves diverse and complex tasks across projects, including understanding the applicability and potential impact of certain regulations on DFA, and collaborating with business units to document internal controls, ensure compliance, and mitigate risk.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional projects for compliance initiatives (with a current emphasis in privacy) across the organization
• Collaborate with business units in the development of solutions to limit compliance risk, support risk mitigation plans to completion, and provide guidance to address changes in the regulatory environment
• Research, evaluate, and respond to unique or unprecedented compliance and regulatory inquiries
• Navigate ambiguity and incomplete information by identifying the right stakeholders (e.g., business owners, IT, Security, Legal, and outside counsel), facilitating discussions or fact-finding, and documenting outcomes, decisions, and next steps
• Drive cross-functional execution to meet agreed-upon project milestones and deliverables, including the coordination of dependencies, follow-ups, and escalation of risks/issues
• Document and/or evaluate processes and corresponding internal controls to ensure compliance with applicable US and international laws, regulations, and policies
• Evolve and execute the organizations Data Privacy Impact Assessment methodology, and utilize the privacy module within DFAs enterprise-wide solution to capture the results
• Evolve DFAs Privacy Compliance Program for industry best practices or privacy regulations by updating/creating corporate policies, procedures, guidance, and training materials
• Operate effectively in an evolving program environment by helping define emerging workstreams, building repeatable processes (e.g., intake/triage, documentation standards, control libraries), and driving continuous improvement as the privacy compliance program matures
• Help shape the evolution of the program by proposing enhancements to governance, metrics, reporting, and tooling to improve scalability and effectiveness
• In partnership with Legal, provide education on emerging and existing privacy risks with the business to guide decision making
• Drive discussions on the creation and implementation of any necessary employee communications related to new or altered privacy regulations
• Contribute to the organizations Privacy Risk Assessment
• Partner with DFAs Legal Department from an advisory perspective as it relates to the organizations privacy initiatives
• The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as required.