Data Protection Officer (12 month fixed term contract)
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
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📍London, Cardiff or Remote | 💰 £110,000 - £125,000 (depending on experience) + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨
🚀We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
⭐Our Risk teamWe work in small interdisciplinary teams. Everyone routinely interacts directly with engineers, designers, user researchers and product managers. We develop software to automate processes and we fine-tune every journey to minimise friction. We’re looking for a collaborative, knowledgeable, and experienced Data Protection Officer on a 12 month fixed term contract, to oversee the management of data protection risk at Monzo, and to help us find a skilful balance between meeting our regulatory and ethical obligations and creating innovative, customer-centric solutions to our users' everyday money needs.
As the DPO, you will provide advice and oversight across how our data protection framework is developed and delivered. You will need to work closely with our Chief Information Security Officer who is responsible for defining, implementing and leading data protection. You will help to build data protection into the culture at Monzo and make sure that everyone is aware of their responsibilities and the minimum standards we expect. You will keep our Board up-to-date on our data protection performance and risks through monthly and annual reporting. And you will take ownership of our relationship with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We expect you to work with the business, partnering with our data, product and engineering teams to enable growth and diversification on our journey to building a new way of banking. Monzo is not an organisation that lives to tick boxes, we need to strike the right balance for our customers to continue to grow and provide the best products and services.
The DPO is a second line role in the Risk and Compliance Collective and will report to our Chief Risk Officer (CRO).
🔑You’ll play a key role by…
You'll be responsible for providing advice and oversight across all aspects of data protection at Monzo including:
- Providing advice on our data protection obligations.
- Overseeing data protection risk management.
- Monitoring and advising on our Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and how associated risks are managed.
- Monitoring changes in law and issuing recommendations to maintain compliance.
- Monitoring our compliance with GDPR and other data protection legislation and policies, and raising awareness of risks and control weaknesses you identify
- Working with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and being their point of contact for data breaches.
- Providing Executive and Board reporting on all of these matters.
🤩We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have extensive experience in data protection in a corporate environment.
- You have experience working in a risk or compliance team.
- You have had significant interactions with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
- You have in-depth knowledge of GDPR and national/international data protection laws with a suitable data protection certification such as CIPP, CIPT, CIPM.
- You have worked with teams that have developed innovative data-driven consumer solutions at pace, and helped them develop solutions that were also compliant with data protection law and regulation.
- You have significant experience supporting C-suite and Board Directors and top-level governance of large complex firms.
- You are capable and enthusiastic about developing, leading and promoting a culture of data protection within an organisation.
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
🙌What’s in it for you💰£110,000 - £125,000 (depending on experience) 📍This is a full time (12 month contract) role and can be based in our London or Cardiff offices, or be distributed working within the UK ⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps:
- Phone call with Recruiter (30 mins)
- Initial video call with hiring manager (30 mins)
- Technical video call with hiring manager & stakeholder (45 mins)
- Behavioural interview (45 mins)
This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!
You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to business-hiring@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.
We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.