At Grant Thornton we offer the opportunity to work in a dynamic and
challenging professional services environment. Each member of our team
is encouraged and supported to develop their own unique talents and
gain experience operating across a wide variety of business sectors
including financial services, public sector, healthcare, and
telecommunications.
_WE OFFER_ an inclusive and collaborative working environment, with
rapid career progression opportunities based on performance and proven
ability.
You will work in our cyber and privacy team based in our new Dublin
Docklands office which includes cybersecurity, data privacy, and
incident response and investigation services. Our team provides a full
spectrum of privacy services including privacy assessments,
transformation, data protection outsourcing services, privacy breach
management, subject access requests amongst others.
Candidates will be asked to demonstrate flexibility as we serve
clients both across Ireland, with opportunities for international
assignments. As part of Grant Thornton internationally, we also
collaborate with other member firms across the globe.
Candidates for this role should be able to demonstrate project
management and consulting skills with a good working knowledge of IT
and data protection. Successful candidates will ideally have a
professional services background with experience of providing
practical advice and solutions to companies in meeting regulatory and
standards-based challenges, in particular for GDPR. They must have
excellent problem solving and communication skills.
Ideally, they should be naturally inquisitive with a keenness to learn
and broaden skillsets.
They must have a client-centric ethic because, as a consultant with
Grant Thornton, they will experience direct client facing engagements
and project delivery.
Generalist IT project managers, information security, regulatory
compliance, risk or internal audit professionals with similar
experience will also be considered.
The role will require strong client delivery skills, with a passion
for data protection and a commitment to personal development. The role
will involve client delivery, business development and people
development.
Client Delivery
As a consultant in the privacy team, you will deliver excellence for
clients, including:
Working on large privacy transformation engagements ? these projects
often involve working with Grant Thornton colleagues as well as client
teams and third party contractors; andProducing deliverables of high
quality on multiple small and medium size engagement simultaneously,
often managing your time whilst working with multiple engagement
managers these include data protection assessments, privacy impact
assessments and privacy implementations.
Supporting Cyber Security client engagements as required.
Business Development:
Consultants are expected to contribute to business development
activities, including:
Contributing to sales and marketing materials for bringing our
services to market;
Writing proposals for new client work with a keen eye for detail and
commitment to quality; andAttending events to keep abreast of industry
developments and build personal brand capital.
People Development
As a people business, we place a strong emphasis on the development of
our people. Consultants are expected to be committed to developing
themselves and others, including:
Engaging in course based and on the job training to develop their
skillset and increase their value;
Contributing to the development of more junior staff; andAccepting
effective feedback and embracing opportunities to grow and develop.
Required experience:
A minimum of four years? experience.
Professional Services experience or experience working in a large data
protection team.
Supervisory and/or management experience of people and resources.
Strong academic and/or professional qualifications.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrable
experience in a client facing role.
Strong focus on quality and commitment to excellence.
Strong analytical/problem solving skills.
Desired experience:
Experience in consulting, preferably in I.T. or regulatory and risk
management.
Relevant data protection qualification (e.g. CIPP).
Project management qualification (PRINCE2/PMP).
Relevant professional experience in the field of privacy/data
protection.
Ideally delivered elements of a privacy related change programme.
Additional staff perks
Here at Grant Thornton we appreciate that you will be a continuous
learner and we are fully supportive of personal and professional
development. As such, we offer a wide variety additional staff
services, including;fully paid industry relevant training and
certificationregular company sponsored team building and social events
Sponsored 3rd level education including MSc from top tier
universitieshealth & wellness facilitiescompany pension schemefull
access to onsite gym facilitiessports and social clubssubsidised staff
restaurant
TaxSaver travel schemes
Partial work from home
Flexi-time and Time off in lieu
Bike to work scheme Position: ?Experienced Privacy / Data Protection Delivery Consultant
At Grant Thornton we offer the opportunity to work in a dynamic and
challenging professional services environment. Each member of our team
is encouraged and supported to develop their own unique talents and
gain experience operating across a wide variety of business sectors
including financial services, public sector, healthcare, and
telecommunications.
_WE OFFER_ an inclusive and collaborative working environment, with
rapid career progression opportunities based on performance and proven
ability.
You will work in our cyber and privacy team based in our new Dublin
Docklands office which includes cybersecurity, data privacy, and
incident response and investigation services. Our team provides a full
spectrum of privacy services including privacy assessments,
transformation, data protection outsourcing services, privacy breach
management, subject access requests amongst others.
Candidates will be asked to demonstrate flexibility as we serve
clients both across Ireland, with opportunities for international
assignments. As part of Grant Thornton internationally, we also
collaborate with other member firms across the globe.
Candidates for this role should be able to demonstrate project
management and consulting skills with a good working knowledge of IT
and data protection. Successful candidates will ideally have a
professional services background with experience of providing
practical advice and solutions to companies in meeting regulatory and
standards-based challenges, in particular for GDPR. They must have
excellent problem solving and communication skills.
Ideally, they should be naturally inquisitive with a keenness to learn
and broaden skillsets.
They must have a client-centric ethic because, as a consultant with
Grant Thornton, they will experience direct client facing engagements
and project delivery.
Generalist IT project managers, information security, regulatory
compliance, risk or internal audit professionals with similar
experience will also be considered.
The role will require strong client delivery skills, with a passion
for data protection and a commitment to personal development. The role
will involve client delivery, business development and people
development.
Client Delivery
As a consultant in the privacy team, you will deliver excellence for
clients, including:
Working on large privacy transformation engagements ? these projects
often involve working with Grant Thornton colleagues as well as client
teams and third party contractors; andProducing deliverables of high
quality on multiple small and medium size engagement simultaneously,
often managing your time whilst working with multiple engagement
managers these include data protection assessments, privacy impact
assessments and privacy implementations.
Supporting Cyber Security client engagements as required.
Business Development:
Consultants are expected to contribute to business development
activities, including:
Contributing to sales and marketing materials for bringing our
services to market;
Writing proposals for new client work with a keen eye for detail and
commitment to quality; andAttending events to keep abreast of industry
developments and build personal brand capital.
People Development
As a people business, we place a strong emphasis on the development of
our people. Consultants are expected to be committed to developing
themselves and others, including:
Engaging in course based and on the job training to develop their
skillset and increase their value;
Contributing to the development of more junior staff; andAccepting
effective feedback and embracing opportunities to grow and develop.
Required experience:
A minimum of four years? experience.
Professional Services experience or experience working in a large data
protection team.
Supervisory and/or management experience of people and resources.
Strong academic and/or professional qualifications.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrable
experience in a client facing role.
Strong focus on quality and commitment to excellence.
Strong analytical/problem solving skills.
Desired experience:
Experience in consulting, preferably in I.T. or regulatory and risk
management.
Relevant data protection qualification (e.g. CIPP).
Project management qualification (PRINCE2/PMP).
Relevant professional experience in the field of privacy/data
protection.
Ideally delivered elements of a privacy related change programme.
Additional staff perks
Here at Grant Thornton we appreciate that you will be a continuous
learner and we are fully supportive of personal and professional
development. As such, we offer a wide variety additional staff
services, including;fully paid industry relevant training and
certificationregular company sponsored team building and social events
Sponsored 3rd level education including MSc from top tier
universitieshealth & wellness facilitiescompany pension schemefull
access to onsite gym facilitiessports and social clubssubsidised staff
restaurant
TaxSaver travel schemes
Partial work from home
Flexi-time and Time off in lieu
Bike to work scheme
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