I am responsible for for defining, owning, and executing the organisation's group-wide data compliance roadmap, aligning it with budgetary constraints and risk thresholds. Collaborating with Legal, IT, and key Global Function Leadership to gather inputs and ensure strategic alignment.Achievements:- Set a comprehensive Data Compliance Strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives, budgetary considerations, and risk tolerances.- Led the Global Privacy Office, maintaining it as a Centre of Excellence by fostering a clear vision, providing coaching, inspiration, and empowerment to team, enabling them to make significant impact.- Redefined and launched the Group's Data Risk Committee, encompassing crucial areas such as Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, AI Governance, and Responsible Data Practices, thus ensuring top-down alignment and buy-in, reinforcing the company's commitment to legal and ethical data practices.- Played a pivotal role as a founding member of Reckitt's Responsible Data and AI Working Group, shaping and implementing governance and assurance processes to adapt to evolving legal requirements.- Monitored and reported key metrics and progress of regional programs across various regions worldwide, ensuring full engagement and support from regional teams.- Established and nurtured a growing privacy champions network, ensuring that Data Protection is integrated into all business functions across the organisation.- Provided oversight of core privacy operations, including Privacy Incident Management, DSR fulfilment, DPIAs, internal and external audits coordination, and regular governance policy reviews.- Negotiated Data Processing Agreements for high-risk vendors across multiple jurisdictions and oversaw the execution of Reckitt’s Intra-Group Data Transfer Agreement, ensuring robust contractual safeguards in place.- Nominated point of contact for ICO and all other regulatory interactions on behalf of the Group.

Led the strategy and approach for the organisation's Global Privacy Program, shaping its governance structure and execution model from the ground up.Achievements:- Spearheaded the consultation process for Reckitt's Global Privacy Programme, shaping its strategy and approach, and designing a robust governance and execution model.- Developed and conducted engaging face-to-face privacy training sessions, workshops and remediation programs for the Legal department and key business functions across diverse regions, building privacy awareness and upskilling employees on privacy principles and best practices.- Designed, documented, and implemented core privacy processes such as Breach Management, Data Subject Requests, and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) using the OneTrust Privacy Management Platform, enhancing the organisation's ability to manage privacy-related activities and ensure regulatory compliance.- Established a collaborative partnership with the Cyber team to optimise vendor assurance, resulting in increased efficiency and simplified due diligence procedures, strengthening vendor risk management and privacy controls.

Responsible for design and implementation of key aspects of the organisation's data protection operations.Achievements:- Conducted a comprehensive GDPR gap analysis, identifying areas of non-compliance and presenting key recommendations and advice to data stakeholders. - Designed and documented processes such as Record of Processing Activities, DPIAs, and Consent Management. - Set privacy metrics with a clearly defined reporting process, enabling the business to capture, monitor, and remediate key privacy risks effectively. - Played an instrumental role in the review and creation of global retention policies and schedules, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and best practices.

Leadership role reporting to Board of Directors to ensure the organisation's compliance with data protection regulations, evolving the company’s culture of privacy by design.Achievements:- Appointed DPO for UK business, taking ownership of policies, training, compliance monitoring and reporting, ROPA, PIAS, breach management, negotiation of data protection agreements, liaising with ICO, etc.- Engaged in consultations and working groups with Group headquarters and other country-level DPOs, building improved privacy process solutions to be adopted across the Group.- Trained in a hybrid environment of German and UK privacy practices, advantageous in preparations for GDPR.- Polished technical and legal fluency in German, enabling effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders in multinational environments.

Achieved a firm grounding in banking and financial services through formal training from the world’s largest custodian bank in areas of custody banking such as equities, bonds, funds, foreign exchange trading & compliance.Utilised my language abilities to help other team members follow trade instructions and resolve client issues.Led team on business continuity projects involving regular correspondence with sites in Germany and India.Quickly adopted the use of new bookkeeping systems to ensure trades were processed accurately within given deadlines ensuring timely settlement processed free from cost incurring errors.Effectively communicated and worked with colleagues from other departments to ensure all clients’ needs were met.

Gained experience in using a range of accounting software to book invoices as well as create and proof read reports, developing my ability to analyse issues and implement effective solutions.Quickly learned how to take on new tasks and organise time efficiently.Volunteered for additional in-house project selling event tickets in various office locations across Munich, proving my ability to sell and communicate fluently in German.Attended various in-house development seminars to further my knowledge and understanding of compliance and risk management within the insurance industry.

Worked as an employee of the LDS Church upon completion of voluntary service, training German speaking volunteers/missionaries in teaching and communication skills, organising and leading role-play exercises and providing individual feedback to volunteers.Translated training and instruction materials from English into German.