Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy, 12-months FTC

ABOUT BARINGA  Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. OUR GLOBAL PEOPLE FUNCTION ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED HR BUSINESS PARTNER TO JOIN THEM. We have a team of dedicated and talented professionals, taking responsibility for all “people” aspects of the business. This includes the whole employee life cycle, from attracting new joiners, on-boarding, development throughout their career, ensuring they work in a balanced and healthy way, supporting them when needed, enabling efficient and effective processes throughout, every day, for their entire journey at Baringa.  As we continue to grow organically, we need to ensure our people offerings are set up to enable the future size and shape of the business to operate effectively and efficiently, using the appropriate tools. Supporting the ever-evolving business needs and being a key player in the change management of the firm, is a core part of this role. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING * Be the principal HRBP for one or more sectors within our Consulting business, looking after the full breadth of their people agenda. * HRBP roles at Baringa are very broad, so there will be plenty of scope to operate across a range of people activities, including workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership capability, performance and development, employee relations, employee engagement, reward, promotions and people insights. * Develop and own sector-specific People Plans for your client groups and be accountable for ensuring progress against these, including engaging with other parts of the People function, such as Reward, Recruitment and L&D, to deliver outcomes. * Build trusted relationships and provide support and advice to Partner Leads in helping them deliver the people elements of their business plans. You will work closely with your People Sponsor Partner and Sector Lead as key stakeholders to help shape and enable the people elements of sector strategy. * Use people insights, data and feedback to identify risks, opportunities and emerging priorities, helping to inform decision-making and people interventions across your sector(s). * Support organisational change and transformation activity within your client group(s), helping leaders navigate change and manage people impacts effectively. * Support leaders and people managers on a range of people matters, including organisational effectiveness, talent, engagement, performance and development, helping to ensure teams are set up for success. * You will be managing an HR Advisor who provides support across multiple sectors. * You are likely to support some colleagues outside the UK, and you will need to be able to flex your approach to accommodate different cultures and jurisdictional requirements. This role reports directly into the Head of the Global HRBP team, and interfaces with Partners and senior leaders across the business.  You will live and breathe our values and be a great role-model for our culture and behaviours. YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE * Significant HR Business Partner experience, ideally gained within a professional services, consulting or partnership environment, with a track record of partnering with senior leaders to deliver business and people outcomes. * Experience operating across complex client groups or sectors, with an understanding of the opportunities and challenges associated with supporting diverse and evolving business needs. * Deep employee relations expertise, including managing complex and sensitive cases independently and providing pragmatic, risk-based advice that balances legal, commercial and people considerations. * Strong knowledge of local employment legislation and market practice, with the ability to anticipate and respond to legislative changes, shaping people approaches and influencing stakeholders accordingly. * Demonstrated ability to build credibility with Partners and senior leaders, providing strategic counsel, challenge and coaching to support effective decision-making and leadership capability. * Strong organisational effectiveness and workforce planning capability, with experience translating business priorities into people strategies and interventions that drive performance, engagement and growth. * Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to navigate complexity, challenge constructively and build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups. * Operates with a high degree of autonomy, sound judgement and commercial awareness, balancing local business needs with the long-term interests and values of Baringa. * Strong project and change management skills, with the ability to lead multiple strategic people initiatives simultaneously and deliver measurable outcomes. WHAT A CAREER AT BARINGA WILL GIVE YOU  PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST. BARINGA IS A PEOPLE FIRST COMPANY AND WELLBEING IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR CULTURE. WE RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING AND PROVIDE OUR STAFF AMAZING BENEFITS. SOME OF THESE BENEFITS INCLUDE:  * Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.  * Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.  * Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.  * Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.  * Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.  AN AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here [https://www.baringa.com/en/impact/awards/] to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.  USING BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD.  We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.  We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have. JOIN US All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.   BARINGA PRIVACY NOTICES For UK & EU Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / [https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-004-ukrpn---uk-recruitment-privacy-notice-pdf.pdf]EU Recruitment Privacy Notice [https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-005-eurpn---eu-recruitment-privacy-notice-pdf.pdf], to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com [privacy@baringa.com] For the USA Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC) [https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-007-nerpn-amer--apac-recruitment-privacy-notice-word.pdf], to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com [privacy@baringa.com] For Australia & Singapore Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC) [https://www.baringa.com/globalassets/careers/dp-007-nerpn-amer--apac-recruitment-privacy-notice-word.pdf], to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com [privacy@baringa.com]

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets. We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus. DRW has an opening for a Senior Software Engineer focused on digital assets. The team builds and operates systems that move and safeguard cryptoassets across the firm — including treasury automation, wallet inventory and reference data, integrations with custody platforms, and operational controls used by digital asset operations. You’ll work directly with those business partners and enjoy building meaningful products from day one. At DRW we strive for an environment where technologists are free to pursue solutions to the problems of the business free from arbitrary management constraints and supported by excellent technical resources. All development teams at DRW believe in rapid deployment and feedback, automated testing, and cohesive, transparent, lightly-coupled service architectures. We ship on Kubernetes with modern CI/CD. Candidates should have strong initiative and proven experience independently driving projects to completion. We work from high-level requirements and value engineers who dig into the business to build the right thing. Responsibilities: - Designing, building, and testing full-stack applications (APIs through UI) used by digital asset operations and related business partners - Partnering with those teams to turn ambiguous business problems into clear technical plans and shipped software - Owning software end-to-end after it ships — we run what we build (deploy, operate, on-call); we don’t hand systems off to a separate ops team - Working across greenfield systems and existing codebases - Building and improving tooling and processes around CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes / internal cloud - Collaborating with other software teams, trading desks, and business units - Mentoring and raising the bar for engineering practice on a small team - Learning and championing useful new technologies where they fit Desirable Experience: - We are looking for strong senior engineers with crypto or digital-asset systems experience. Deep Python expertise is a meaningful differentiator for this role. - Cryptoassets, digital-asset operations, or custody / wallet platforms (or closely adjacent high-stakes money-movement systems) - DeFi, smart contracts, staking, or other on-chain systems - Full-stack development with Python (FastAPI) - Strong relational data modeling fundamentals - GitOps and Kubernetes - Job orchestration systems (Airflow, Prefect, etc.) For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice [https://drw.com/privacy-notice]. California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice [https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice]. #LI-MM1