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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.
Job Summary 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 the company's transactional practices.
Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues.
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.
Relationships Reports to: Contracting Lead Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel Qualifications Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction