Technology SME Specialist

Your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, your curiosity and your best true self to your work.

Here, you’ll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to make incredible things.

In Accenture Operations we rethink the way people work and businesses perform by harnessing the power of rich data for decision-making, innovative technology, and advanced machine intelligence.

In an era where people are critical to success, join a team that prioritizes human ingenuity and fosters a workforce where technology elevates people (not the other way around), freeing them up for more creative thinking and exciting work.

Every day is a process of growth !

Global Legal Network (GLN) 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.

CORE and Global Services (CGS) is a group of legal professionals working and supporting different legal areas such as Compliance, Regulatory Offerings, Ethics, Procurement, Corporate Matters and the Services Areas aligned with the new offerings and technologies such as Strategy & Consulting, Interactive, Technology, Security and Operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Generic Responsibilities

• Understand the Global Services Legal areas

• Understand relevant company policies

• Develop subject-matter expertise in the concerned support area

• Act as a POC for the support area

• Understand and suggest process improvements in the support area

• Support LTO/CIO in development of new tool or enhancement of existing ones

• Assist team in drafting checklists and process documents

• Directly liaison with internal stakeholders on various issues

• Manage SharePoint and communication records

• Identify and support any specific trainings for the team

• Support implementation of new initiatives in Global Services Legal support area or within Legal/GLN

• Build credible and effective relationships with onshore counsels and within GLN team

• Support recruitment efforts for the team

• Supervise resources, and assist GLN Team Lead in people management, as required

• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team

• Provide individuals with positive and developmental feedback

• Try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal.

Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role:

• Independently draft and review and negotiate medium/high complexity agreements and documents including but not limited to Non-Disclosure agreements, Software License Agreements, renewals, amendments, and Open Source Software License Agreements, among others.

• Provide responsive and strategic SME guidance to business and legal team in support of Accenture Technology Initiatives, including offering and assets/tool development, multy-party innovation, technology ecosystems, and risk management.

• Support the business teams in conducting assessments of new service and product offerings, and preparing those offerings for market, especially in the emerging technology space (e.g., blockchain, quantum, extended reality, etc)

• Collaborate with colleagues across Legal and Quality & Risk to identify legal and regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies.

• Enable Accenture´s Research Labs and Innovation Hub to efficiently handle day-to-day contracting, including developing guidance and providing SME support to deal teams and contracting lawyers.

• Require approvals when needed - in particular, ensuring that all stakeholders are fully informed and engaged on a timely basis with the process and associated responsibilities.

• Perform research of laws and regulations or technical aspects applicable to assigned requests, consulting as necessary