Strategic Growth Init Counsel Strategy and Consulting 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 centres 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 Legal (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 S&C, Interactive, Technology, Security and Operations.

S&C Role Summary – S&C is the home of our Strategy practitioners, industry and functional expertise, data insight and design. Support Accenture Applied Intelligence (AAI) and Center for Data & Insights, and collaborate with different industry functions such as Life Sciences, Health, Talent and Organizations, Retail & Consumer Goods, Supply Chain, etc. AAI is the world’s largest team of data scientists, data engineers, and experts in artificial intelligence. AAI believes a mix of data, analytics, automation, and responsible AI can do almost anything—spark digital metamorphoses, widen the range of what humans can do, and breathe life into smart products and services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand the Global Services 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 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:

• Support the Business as a strategic partner and trusted adviser to enable growth of the Business.

• Take on assignments as required by designated AAI Business/Legal Leads , and develop strong relationships with the Business and within the AAI legal team and broader Global Services Legal organization.

• Conduct legal assessments of products and services, including identifying risks and related risk mitigation strategies (contractual, operational, technical).

• Work with the Business to identify, manage and mitigate risks, comply with laws and company policies, and undertake ethical considerations in its endeavors.

• Advise on data management issues and responsible use of data for products and services, including artificial intelligence or machine learning technology.

• Develop clear communication messages, guidance, templates and trainings regarding the products and services and related use of data for sales and go to market teams, development teams, and technical teams.

• Independently handle the communication with internal clients, business teams and  stakeholders on various legal matters such as Open Source Governance, NDAs, Evaluation, Data sourcing, and Sponsorship Agreements, etc.

• Work with Accenture’s regulatory and compliance counsel to synthesize and apply regulatory and compliance advice, including future-looking projections of any anticipated regulatory changes potentially impacting the business;

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