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; and
• Producing 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.
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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; and
• Attending 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; and
• Accepting 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 certification
• regular company sponsored team building and social events
• Sponsored 3rd level education including MSc from top tier universities
• health & wellness facilities
• company pension scheme
• full access to onsite gym facilities
• sports and social clubs
• subsidised staff restaurant
• TaxSaver travel schemes
• Partial work from home
• Flexi-time and Time off in lieu
• Bike to work scheme