Legal Counsel Manager

Posted:
8/21/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Karnataka, India ⋅ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Legal & Compliance

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At Accenture we put innovation at the heart of everything we do and coupled with our core values of client value creation, one global network, respect for the individual, best people, integrity and stewardship, we offer careers that provide unparalleled opportunities for career growth and job satisfaction.

The mission statement of Global Services Legal is to “drive sustainable business growth for Accenture by providing deep legal expertise at the intersection of business strategy, industry and technology in a highly dynamic environment.” The Global Services Legal team functions as the integrator between various other parts of the Legal team, coordinating between the multidisciplinary areas of deep expertise across the wider Legal team, to deliver one holistic Legal perspective to the business.

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CL7 (Manager) job description – GLOBAL SERVICES LEGAL

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the Cloud First business team in conducting assessments of new service and product offerings, and preparing those offerings for market
  • Collaborate with colleagues across Legal and Quality & Risk to identify legal and regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies
  • Enable Accenture’s Sales & Delivery Legal team to efficiently handle day-to-day contracting, including developing contracting templates and guidance and providing SME support to deal teams
  • Supporting Accenture’s Ventures & Acquisitions Legal team and business leadership in the evaluation of prospective acquisition targets related to the Cloud First organization and development and implementation of post-merger integration strategy

Knowledge Skills and Experience

  • Minimum [8 yrs.] relevant experience in a corporate or law firm setting, ideally advising on cloud services
  • Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies
  • Understanding or willingness to learn applicable regulatory landscapes as required for the offerings, including with respect to data protection and privacy
  • Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders
  • Experience shaping deals and evaluating innovative commercial models for new product and service offerings, including cloud services

Behaviours and Attributes

  • Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies
  • Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace
  • Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Accenture Legal department
  • Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams and industrialization of more mature processes
  • Open to learn, work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization

Education and Qualifications

Education: JD and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or their local equivalents)

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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