Legal Specialist

Business & Team:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Draft and review a wide range of contractual documents, including appointment agreements, onboarding agreements, commercial contracts, and NDAs.
• Monitor compliance with the terms and conditions of the agreements and liaise with concerned parties for complying with the contract requirement.
• Administer and manage contracts post-execution. Track and monitor contract deliverable and obligation compliance
• Adherence with internal frameworks, mandates, and processes.
• Working with Contract Management tools
• Draft, review and negotiate the supplier/buyside agreements and similar/related documentation with suppliers, to procure various goods and services including but not limited to Contactors, Human Resources Support, IT & Telecom, Marketing & Communications, Workplace Support (Facilities & Services), Software as a Service etc. in accordance with organization’s supplier’s contracting standards, applicable laws, and business requirements.
• Customize the existing templates in exceptional cases to suit the business requirements, thereby ensuring compliance with applicable local laws and organization’s supplier’s contracting standards.
• Review the supplier templates and ensure that the deviations to the organization’s supplier’s contracting standards are timely identified and highlighted to the business whenever they pose as risks to Accenture operations.
• Liaising with various internal stakeholders (Business, finance, and Tech teams) to ensure timely closure of agreements and advise them on contractual mandates and compliances.
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements/needs, spot issues, and propose/implement solutions.
• Support in-house legal team and other departments as may be necessary.

Essential Skills:

• 7-9 years of relevant hands-on work experience.
• Deep understanding of various contractual documents to ensure that the Intake Triage is conducted efficiently within 24 hours of receiving a request from the Business team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to conduct meetings with senior leadership in the Business team to understand the request and advice on additional information/documentation required to move the request through the review process.
• Knowledge in contract law and ability to quickly learn Organization’s contracting processes and policies to assist with drafting and reviewing contracts.
• Attention to detail even when working under tight timelines.
• Highlighting potential risks and ability to work with team members, including onshore legal counsel, if required, to find mitigating solutions.
• Skills in contract and obligation management in compliance with the contractual requirements.
• Knowledge and experience of working on contract management tools would be considered an asset.
• Developing a deep understanding of professional service offerings, performance details, and related business strategy (experience with large-scale technology companies, technology-driven consulting projects or other cloud and transformation projects, including, without limitation, system implementation, cloud migration, and/or digital transformation, is desired but not required).
• Exercising an entrepreneurial, problem-solving mentality and autonomy in developing and progressing contracts through their creation.
• Explaining contract terms and positions in a collaborative manner to internal stakeholders.
• Driving process improvement by analyzing current contracting approaches and processes and improving contracting efficiency and overall experience.
• Respecting and maintaining confidentiality of client, staff, and firm information; and
• Navigating basic independence and other regulatory issues related to audit firms.

Education Qualifications:

• A degree in Law (LLB).