Trade Compliance Counsel - EMEA Manager

Accenture; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services company is seeking a Trade Compliance Lawyer with over 5 years of experience in trade compliance law, including sanctions. This role involves ensuring compliance with international trade control laws across the EMEA region and supporting business stakeholders on compliance matters.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in trade compliance law.
• Subject matter expert in EMEA region.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain trade compliance programs in EMEA.
• Develop and deliver trade compliance training.
• Provide practical advice on trade/export laws.

Skills

Trade Compliance

Sanctions

Job description

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services — creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 743,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in driving that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Accenture Song enable us to deliver tangible outcomes. Our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value helps us build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the value we create for clients, colleagues, shareholders, partners, and communities.

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Job Summary:

We are hiring a Trade Compliance Lawyer with 5+ years’ experience in trade compliance law, including sanctions, to serve as a subject matter expert in the EMEA region. The Trade Compliance Counsel—EMEA plays a vital role in ensuring Accenture’s compliance with international trade control laws in EMEA, assisting our Legal team and business units in understanding trade and export control risks, compliance, and program controls. This role supports business stakeholders on transactional trade compliance matters in client contracts and trade-related reviews of services and offerings. It is also responsible for developing and delivering trade compliance training, awareness materials, tools, templates, resources, and guidance documents.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain trade compliance programs in EMEA, including:
• Developing and delivering trade compliance training.
• Reviewing and implementing trade policies and internal controls.
• Planning and drafting trade compliance communications with internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with senior management and outside counsel to conduct risk assessments, recommend improvements, and support implementation.
• Build trade compliance and monitoring tools to help executives identify and mitigate trade-related risks.
• Provide practical advice to businesses and Legal professionals regarding trade/export laws, the Code of Business Ethics, and related policies.
• Work with Legal and business teams in EMEA to identify, analyze, and mitigate trade risks and conduct localized training on trade/export law issues.
• Respond to internal audits, investigations, and government inquiries related to trade/export law in EMEA.

Key Relationships:

• Legal teams, including Global Services Legal, Sales & Delivery, Contracting, Geographic Compliance, and Corporate Counsel.
• Corporate functions and business stakeholders.
• Market Unit leadership.
• Subject matter experts (analytics, security, government compliance).
• Privacy professionals at client and peer companies.
• External law firms and counsel.