Legal & Compliance Expert

Legal & Compliance Expert

Miejsce pracy : Kraków

Your responsibilities

• Data Privacy - providing SME advisory and coordinating privacy and data protection efforts, ensuring alignment of local procedures with EU, Polish, and HEINEKEN internal regulations, managing the PIA / DPIA process in collaboration with Legal & Compliance, requestors, and external consultants, including review and mitigation recommendations, supporting GDPR compliance in projects by advising on principles like privacy by design, data minimization, and retention, maintaining up-to-date records of processing activities, coordinating and verifying Data Processing Agreements, leading data breach investigations and related communications, handling data subject rights requests, and fostering strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to identify and mitigate privacy risks
• Code of Business Conduct - coordinating activities with the local business conduct workgroup, maintaining contact with the global COBC team, and supporting the setup of governance models, monitoring relevant legislation and internal changes while proposing updates to policies and procedures, contributing to COBC training plans and attendance tracking, keeping COBC materials on SharePoint up to date, promoting COBC topics in alignment with the Legal & Compliance function, supporting annual reviews and operational tests of the dawn raid process, collaborating with other HEINEKEN Kraków teams on topics such as health and safety, human rights, discrimination, environment, and responsible communication, and assisting the L&C Manager in overseeing COBC-related areas including data privacy, bribery, corruption, money laundering, sanctions, conflicts of interest, insider dealing, and the management of gifts, entertainment, hospitality, and donations
• Legal process - coordinating and validating legal and compliance checks within the third-party agreements process in collaboration with the Procurement Officer, external legal advisors, L&C Manager, Finance Manager, and requestors, monitoring and assessing new regulatory developments while providing actionable recommendations, designing and implementing local controls, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with local laws and HEINEKEN Group standards, as well as coordinating the preparation and maintenance of powers of attorney (POAs) and related data
• Risk Assessment - contributing to the periodic risk assessment process led by the internal control function, identifying new legal and compliance risks, proposing and executing mitigation plans, and reporting progress to the L&C Manager and internal control team

Our requirements

What we offer

Benefits

The purpose of the Legal & Compliance function (L&C) is to ensure that HEINEKEN Krakow complies with specific regulatory requirements and the employees comply with HEINEKEN Kraków internal policies, rules and outside specific regulatory requirements in order to help organization manage risk and maintain a positive reputation.

The L&C function scope covers areas of : Legal, Code of Business Conduct (COBC), Data Privacy, and L&C Risk Management. L&C Manager with the L&C Function is empowered to identify any trends or new regulatory related risks to the business and advises the Management Team on any remedial actions needed.

Legal & Compliance Expert role is to provide high quality SME expertise to L&C Manager, engage with HEINEKEN Kraków, Global Functions and OpCos relevant stakeholders, as well as provide ongoing advisory for HEINEKEN Kraków employees. Legal & Compliance Expert role is to also drive awareness activities at HEINEKEN Kraków as agreed within the L&C function.

HEINEKEN Global Shared Services

At HEINEKEN Kraków (HEINEKEN Global Shared Services) our success comes directly from our great people. We are a growing team of finance, accounting, data and technology professionals ready to „WOW” the world with our expertise, passion and pride to be GREEN. Our employees can develop in the following areas : Purchase to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Business Performance Management, Accounting, Reporting & Consolidation, Digital & Technology, Transformation Management, Global Audit, Global Process & Control Improvement, Global Process Expertise, and Support Functions like HR, Service Management, Global Master Data, Internal Finance, Change & Communications.

An integral part of HEINEKEN’s day-to-day operations, our Global Shared Services center has significantly contributed to leveraging the benefits of the company since 2012. With more than 1100 employees comprised of 27 nationalities, we collaborate with 26 Operating Companies in 25 languages. A truly global experience! We value enjoyment of life, respect for people and planet and passion for quality in all that we do.

HEINEKEN is a proud independent global brewer, committed to surprise and excite consumers with its brands and products everywhere. The brand that bears the founder's family name - Heineken® - is available in almost every country around the globe and is the world's most valuable international premium beer brand. Our company is present in over 70 countries, operates more than 160 breweries and markets more than 250 brands.

HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center was awarded as the Business Services Firm of the Year 2021!

At HEINEKEN Kraków, we take integrity and ethical conduct seriously. If someone has concerns about a possible violation of legal regulations indicated in Polish Whistleblowing Act or our Code of Business Conduct, we encourage them to speak up. Cases can be reported to global team or locally (in line with the local HGSS Whistleblowing procedure) by selecting proper option in this tool or by communicating it on hotline.