Privacy Manager

GoHenry is a London and New York-based fintech company that pioneered the youth fintech and financial education category. We are on a mission to make every kid smart with money and to delight our community of 2 million parents, kids, and teens with innovative, market-leading tools to help parents raise financially healthy kids.

GoHenry offers a debit card and app for kids and teens and companion apps for the family, with in-app tools for sending money, automating allowance, managing chores, setting savings goals, giving to charity, and in-app financial education lessons where kids can watch videos, take quizzes and earn points & badges. This is all designed to help kids and teens build good money habits that will last a lifetime.

Reporting to our Vice President Business Risk & Compliance, the Privacy Manager position will involve working in close collaboration with our Legal and Compliance teams to help ensure that our business meets its regulatory objectives.

What you’ll do

• Develop a Privacy Risk Framework that will help to ensure that we comply with applicable privacy and data protection regulations. This will include ensuring that we have appropriate policies and procedures, documented risks and controls, clear roles and responsibilities and suitable reporting in place.
• Work closely with our Legal, Compliance and Security teams to keep ahead of changes in regulations, understand their implications for GoHenry and help our managers to implement changes. You will also work with these teams to answer queries from the business and help them to understand the implications of their plans.
• Lead work to ensure that our Record of Processing is kept up to date and support business developments through the completion/review of documents such as Data Protection Impact Assessments.
• Develop a proportionate assurance framework and lead its implementation to provide insight into how privacy/data protection risks are being managed.
• Assist with designing and delivering bespoke training to our people.

What we’re looking for

• Strong knowledge of the UK regulatory framework for data protection and privacy, awareness of global developments. Ideally you will also have a sound level of understanding of US privacy regulations.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to build and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Good team player, gaining the benefits of work as a team to achieve a stronger result
• Will be self-motivated, enjoys challenges and is very organised
• Ability to think strategically and get involved at a practical level to deliver detailed changes.

Ideally, you will have knowledge or experience of working in a payments systems business.

As a person, you are a self-starter who is motivated to kick start their own projects, welcomes challenges, seeks feedback from others, asks “how can I help” and then “how can we make this better”, shows perseverance on long-term goals, and generally goes above and beyond in their work.

Benefits

• goFlex - flexible working that lets you choose how (& where) you work best (office / home / a mix of both)
• 33 days of holiday (including public holidays)
• An additional birthday day off
• Family-friendly leave policies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Westfield Cash Health Plan (for you and your children)
• Westfield surgery plan after 3 years’ service
• Westfield Rewards (receive discounts at over 600 retailers)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Training opportunities to further develop your craft
• Choose your own equipment

We are proud to say...

• We help over two million members improve their money skills every single day.
• We are one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest growing UK companies.
• We were nominated for ‘Best Personal Finance App’ at the British Bank Awards 2020.
• We were voted 'Best Children's Financial Provider' at the British Bank Awards 2021.
• Our kids and parents have donated over £200,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts.
• We won the Kids' Cards category of Finder's Customer Satisfaction Awards 2022.

GoHenry is an equal opportunity employer, and we are on a mission to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Want to join our mission?

If GoHenry sounds like a place you would like to be, please apply using the link below.