Playtech
Data Protection Compliance Analyst
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About Playtech
Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.
As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.
Ready to level up your career?
We are looking for a Data Protection Compliance Analyst to join our Group Data Protection team in London, reporting to our Chief Privacy Officer. This is a role for an aspiring subject matter expert, someone curious, organised and genuinely interested in understanding how things work, who wants to grow into a specialist in data protection. You will not be expected to arrive as the finished article. You will be expected to be inquisitive, to read closely, to ask questions, and to learn fast, because we will invest real time in teaching you. If you enjoy piecing information together until the full picture appears, read on.
Job Description
Your Influential Mission: You Will…
- Own the day-to-day record keeping that sits at the heart of our data protection framework, creating, maintaining and quality-checking records so they always tell an accurate story
- Support a Group-wide review of our Records of Processing Activities (ROPA), making sure every legal entity has up-to-date documentation of the personal data it processes, as the law requires
- Help run our data mapping exercise, building and maintaining a clear, current view of where personal data lives and how it moves across the business
- Assist with Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), helping identify, document and assess higher-risk processing activities
- Support supplier and system due diligence, gathering information, tracking reviews and flagging anything that needs a closer look
- Highlight potential data protection risks and help track the actions taken to resolve them
- Work closely with colleagues across the business, explaining requirements clearly and following up until things are done properly
- Learn continuously, through structured training, mentoring from the team, and the work itself
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Components for Success: You…
- Want to grow your career in data protection, privacy, compliance or regulation, this is a step forward, not a step down
- Read carefully and enjoy it, you can take a long document and pull out what actually matters
- Communicate clearly and confidently, in writing and out loud, with people at every level
- Can explain something precisely enough that someone who cannot see it still understands it
- Are highly organised and detail-orientated, and take pride in getting the small things right
- Are proactive, you spot what needs doing and start it, rather than waiting to be asked
- Are comfortable with structured, repetitive work when it builds real understanding, and are curious about the 'why' behind it
- Are confident with spreadsheets and comfortable working with structured information
- Are fluent in written and spoken English
- Are based in, or able to work from, London on a hybrid basis (currently three days a week in the office)
You’ll Get Extra Points for…
- Any exposure to compliance, regulatory, legal, risk or data protection work, whether through your studies or a previous role
- Experience in an office-based customer service environment, our best privacy professionals often come from backgrounds where they learned complaints handling, ethics and clear correspondence
- Experience in a regulated sector such as banking, financial services, gaming or with a regulator
- Experience preparing or delivering presentations
- A genuine interest in technology, social media and artificial intelligence, and how they intersect with privacy
- A relevant degree or certification in law, compliance, information governance or data protection welcome, but never a substitute for curiosity
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Thrive in a culture that values...
- Real investment in you, structured training, hands-on mentoring from experienced privacy professionals, and the space to ask questions
- Genuine exposure: you will work across our legal entities and business units, and see how a FTSE-listed international group handles privacy end to end
- A team that explains the reasoning, not just the task, you will understand the story behind every record you keep
- Hybrid working and a culture built on trust, transparency and delivery rather than clock-watching
- An international, inclusive environment where diverse thinking is treated as a business advantage
- The chance to build real depth in one of the most in-demand disciplines in technology today
Additional Information
HOW TO APPLY?
In addition to your CV, please add a brief motivation letter covering your goals, your current experience in data protection, privacy, compliance or a related field, including any customer service or regulated-environment experience, or your experience of working in a corporate environment. You can write it in the comment section at the end of the application page (under "your message to the hiring manager").
GROUP DATA PROTECTION TEAM
Our Group Data Protection team is a small, close-knit and highly trusted function reporting into the Chief Privacy Officer. We are the independent second line of defence that enables Playtech to grow safely across the UK, Europe and beyond, advising the business, challenging constructively, and making sure the right, fact-based decisions get made. We work on live regulatory questions every single day, across every part of the group. If you want to learn data protection properly, from people who do it for a living at scale, this is where it happens.
Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.
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