Business Analyst - Law Enforcement Compliance
Cork
Description
Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined and now can’t imagine living without. Collaboration is important at Apple, and every day you will connect with and be supported by your peers and colleagues at one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world. As an individual, you will have responsibility for working toward our continued success and be a key player within your job function.
We are looking for a proactive, highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills and a privacy first mindset to join the Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance team. In this role, you’ll support our law enforcement response operations’ continuous improvement. This role presents the opportunity to join the dynamic team in Cork, Apple’s European Operations Headquarters. You’ll analyse complex workflows, identify process improvements, and translate operational insights into structured, evidence-based recommendations. This will strengthen compliance outcomes on a large scale. You’ll work at the intersection of legal operations, process excellence, and data, becoming a key partner to senior stakeholders. Your work will shape how our compliance function measures impact, ensures ongoing quality, and prepares for an evolving regulatory landscape.
- Process Optimization: Map the end-to-end lifecycle of law enforcement and government data requests (intake, validation, triage, review, approval, production, and record retention). Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, improve triage logic, and implement internal controls to mitigate compliance risks.
- System Implementation: Design and lead cross-functional teams to implement scalable, standardized processes that enhance accuracy, timeliness, and legal compliance.
- Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate with legal and privacy counsel to interpret new or evolving regulatory requirements and translate them into system or process changes.
- Quality Assurance: Monitor data quality, audit trail integrity, and system access controls.
- Experience in business analysis, process improvement and auditing within a compliance, privacy, or highly regulated environment.
- Proven experience mapping complex processes, gathering requirements, and translating operational insights into actionable improvements.
- Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data, including advanced proficiency in Excel and Tableau.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex regulatory or technical topics and collaborate effectively with legal counsel and technical teams.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational and documentation skills.
- Proactive and capable of managing multiple priorities in an adaptable, evolving environment.
- A postgraduate qualification in Quality Management, Audit, or a related discipline.
- Formal project management certification.
- Lean/ Six Sigma certification.
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