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Contracting Counsel Senior Analyst with German

Warsaw Job No. r00213381 Full-time

Job Description

Global Legal Network is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centers of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness.

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, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, consulting, 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: 

  • 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 deeper skills in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business
  • 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 for the MU
  • Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility
  • External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Law Degree
  • Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
  • 3-5 years of experience in legal services with experience in digital, consulting and/or systems integration areas in roles with increasing responsibility preferred, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry
  • English and German fluent language skills

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

  • 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 in negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements is preferred
  • Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management
  • Strong executive presence
  • Understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills  

Our Offer:

  • Employment based on an employment contract
  • Hybrid work (put info about office visits here)) and flexible working hours
  • Private medical care and life insurance
  • Access to the MyBenefit platform (the possibility of using a wide range of products and services, including the Multisport card) 
  • Employee Assistance Program - free support in legal, financial, and psychological consultations
  • Individual support in career development
  • A broad learning package (soft and technical training offer, access to the e-learning platform, possibility of co-financing courses and certification) 
  • Paid employee referral program and Employee Share Purchase Plan 

When applying please enclose the below statements: 

I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data by Accenture sp. z o.o. with its registered seat in Warsaw (00-121), at ul. Sienna 39, NIP 526-00-15-900 (Data Controller), in accordance with the Act of May 10, 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1000) and the Regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (Data Protection Directive), necessary to carry out the recruitment process by Accenture . At the same time, I declare that I provide my personal data completely voluntary. I also declare that I have been informed about my right to withdraw my consent or object to processing of data, request access to them, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing and their transfer, at any time and the right to lodge a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority.

I hereby also consent to the processing of my personal data for future recruitment proceedings held by Accenture sp. z o.o. with its registered seat in Warsaw (00-121), at ul. Sienna 39, NIP 526-00-15-900 (Data Controller), in accordance with the Act of May 10, 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1000) and the Regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (Data Protection Directive). At the same time, I declare that I provide my personal data completely voluntary. I also declare that I have been informed about my right to withdraw my consent or object to processing of data, request access to them, rectification, deletion, limitation of processing and their transfer, at any time and the right to lodge a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority.

Accenture does not discriminate employment candidates on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, national origin, political beliefs, trade union membership, ethnicity, denomination, sexual orientation or any other basis impermissible under Polish law.

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