Legal Advisor - QRS

About Deloitte

When you work for us, you commit to a career at one of the largest and most prestigious professional services firms in the world. We have received numerous awards over the last few years, including Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence Award.

Our Purpose

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Responsibilities

During your tenure as a Legal Advisor, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

Legal

1. Review ongoing projects on any lifecycle—legal, reputational, or other risks.
2. Liaise with relevant leadership, functions, or industries to ensure that legal risk has been identified, and recommend actions or safeguards to be implemented.
3. Provide legal and legal risk management advice on contract management, contracting risk, and deal structuring.
4. Formulate legal opinions and disseminate as communication.
5. Interpret and advise on legal documentation.

Contract Negotiation

1. Manage the contractual landscape end to end from opportunity until close-out of engagement.
2. Assess legal implications of various opportunities and implementation for engagements.
3. Prepare, review, and modify contractual mediums to assist and support various delivery activities.
4. Negotiate, review, and draft commercial legal documentation for business transactions.

Contract Management

1. Review, edit, and negotiate change orders and amendments to the services agreement.
2. Review, edit, and negotiate basic contracts and other transactional documents (e.g., SOWs, NDAs, change orders, and amendments) throughout the continuance of the engagement.
3. Liaise with the engagement management team, quality risk assurance, and internal legal.
4. Interpret expectations, obligations, assumptions, and provide a business analysis for consideration, and coordinate and document change.
5. Communicate expectations and standards with key stakeholders.
6. Protect interests, property, confidential information, and marks.
7. Communicate and summarize contract and business deal propositions to present to leadership.

Service and Product Risk Management

1. Deep understanding of the different service and product offerings delivered in the engagement together with their inherent risks.
2. Classifying, evaluating, and monitoring risks, and implementing mitigations for the risks identified.

Qualifications & Skills

1. Bi-lingual, Arabic speaking preferred.
2. Based in Dubai, UAE.
3. Admitted attorney, solicitor, or barrister.
4. 6-7 years post qualification experience in the UAE.
5. Degree(s): LLB, LL.B (Hons), or equivalent (JD, LLM).
6. Experience in a reputable legal practice.
7. Prior consulting experience preferential (other Big 4).