Legal Counsel II

Temenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We have been doing this for over 30 years through the pioneering spirit of our Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together. We serve over 3000 clients from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably. At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.

The primary focus of this role will be the provision of legal advice in relation to data protection compliance and privacy issues impacting Temenos and, in particular, its client offerings. Working with SVP- General Counsel, Europe this work will ensure that Temenos complies with privacy and data-related laws across its global business, including the EU GDPR and that our client offerings also support our clients’ ability to do so. This will involve interacting with our banking clients, partners and suppliers as well as working across the globe with colleagues in the legal, privacy, compliance, security, operations and product teams. The post holder will ensure development of strong relationships within the legal team, with Temenos’ Chief Compliance Officer and with colleagues in particular, in the SaaS Operations, Security and Product Teams.

Specific duties will include:

• Advising, drafting and negotiating data protection elements of client agreements and privacy terms across all regions with a view to protecting Temenos’ interests.
• Developing appropriate training tools to assist the regional legal and sales teams on key legal aspects of privacy.
• Advising in relation to legal aspects of data protection compliance including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Impact Assessments (LIAs).
• Working with the Compliance and Product teams to further embed privacy by design and by default into products and processing whilst enabling business innovation.
• Analysing of controller and processor roles and obligations in different parts of the business.
• Advising on legal issues arising out of data protection operational matters during the lifecycle of client contracts and specific client contract enquiries.
• Advising on international data transfers within the Temenos group of companies and Temenos partners and vendors.
• Advising on legal aspects of security incidents including issues arising in relation to the SaaS operations, working in conjunction with the security and compliance team to ensure that personal data breaches are assessed and that notification requirements across relevant jurisdictions are complied with.
• Advising on the ePrivacy Directive and related legislation concerning the use of cookies and similar technologies as well as the use of personal data for electronic marketing.
• Monitoring ever evolving data protection regulations which impact Temenos or its clients, liaising with external counsel where appropriate.
• Assisting with managing the business contracting templates and updating any relevant playbooks and toolkits provided to regional legal, sales and business teams.
• Identifying legal issues and risks relating to data protection compliance and escalating to SVP- General Counsel, Europe as appropriate.
• Working with the procurement team to ensure that Temenos’ procurement process takes into account data protection compliance and is in line with best practices.
• Liaising, consulting and cultivating close working relationships with other internal teams in the company to ensure adherence with corporate policies and guidelines.

You should have:

• A qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in the technology sector and data protection within either a law firm or in industry.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in data protection matters relating to technology and cloud services, and a commercially aware approach to legal and compliance matters.
• Solid knowledge and experience of global privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA.
• CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT or similar credentials preferred.
• Understanding of the issues involved in and experience of working with multidisciplinary teams.

Attributes:

• A level of interpersonal skills sufficient to enable to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationship with senior contacts both internal and external to the company.
• Commercial approach to business in addition to legal flair.
• Strong eye for detail and effective time management skills.
• Ability to remain confident and assured in difficult circumstances and to possess the resilience and stamina to sustain performance, particularly when under pressure.

Care about establishing interest, trust and credibility towards your internal stakeholders. Commit to being part of an exciting culture and product evolving within the financial industry. Collaborate to maintain the highest standards of Temenos through self-motivation, ambition and focus. Be a truly Temenosity ambassador! Challenge yourself to keep Temenos at its highest level in the market.

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave: Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month.
• Civil Partnership: 1 week of paid leave if you’re getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership.
• Family care: 4 weeks of paid family care leave.
• Recharge days: 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally recharge.
• Study leave: 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal development.

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