Accenture Looking for Contracting Counsel Associate Manager at Alberta Full Time

Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Contracting Legal Professionals (CLP) in Accenture’s Corporate Functions organization coordinate and deliver legal, contract and commercial counsel in support of Accenture’s business. CLPs identify and help manage and mitigate risk and ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies, while providing guidance and negotiating contracts leveraging commercial and market relevant positions.

Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment which may include master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration, and agile development. Team with more senior CLPs in supporting more complex contracts and deal structures. Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently, and help to, structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.

• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal business clients prior to client negotiations.

• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices.

• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues.

• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business.

• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues.

• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives.

• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional.

  Reports to: Contracting Lead

  Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility

  External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate Degree (or equivalent)

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.

• Minimum 4 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, or outsourcing areas in a law firm or in a corporate legal/transaction group

• English is required for this position as this role will be aligned to multi-national teams where English is the common language across our Global Enterprise. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking multi-national teams, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company’s activities to avoid this requirement.

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred.

• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions.

• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions independently.

• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements.

• Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management

Professional Skills:

• Strong executive presence

• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions; and

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Experience and demonstrated capability in conducting and supervising investigations (including compliance-related investigations, employment investigations, and governmental investigations) and in drafting confidential reports and advising senior leadership on such risks.

• In-depth knowledge of local ethical/conduct/compliance-related risks, employee rights and obligations, and related laws

• Experience in civil code and/or Quebec law would be considered an asset.

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Work Requirements:

• Travel required.

• Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired in British Columbia as set forth below.

Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/ca-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia $73,300 to $176,800