Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Accenture PLC; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC seeks an experienced Contracting lawyer to draft, negotiate, and close complex agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment. You will collaborate with senior lawyers, manage risk, and advise executives on legal issues across digital and outsourcing transactions.

Requirements include a law degree (LLB/JD), 4+ years of transactional experience, and strong English and Bahasa Melayu. Bahasa Indonesia or Thai are a bonus. Malaysia-based, on-site position.

Qualifications

• LLB or JD (or equivalent).
• Minimum 4 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing roles.
• Minimum 2 years of experience negotiating IP and data privacy issues.

Responsibilities

• Structure, negotiate and close client transactions to maximize legal and business value.
• Strategize with senior Contracting lawyers before client negotiations.
• Stay informed on developments affecting the company and industries and apply them to transactions.
• Educate and advise company executives on legal and risk issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise in one or more contracting areas.
• Contribute to internal guidelines, toolkits, and knowledge capital on legal and business issues.
• Support, promote and implement Accenture Legal initiatives.
• Evolve as a pathfinder and technology-enabled contracting lawyer.

Skills

Negotiation

Independent work

Tech contracts

IP & Data privacy

Education

LLB or JD

Job description

Contracting lawyers in Accenture’s Legal organization coordinate and deliver legal, contract and commercial counsel in support of Accenture’s business. Our Contracting lawyers identify, manage and mitigate contractual risk, 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, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, applied intelligence, systems integration and agile development. Team with more senior Contracting lawyers 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:

• Independently, and help to, structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective
• Strategize with senior Contracting lawyers 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 subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business
• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues
• Support, promote and implement Accenture Legal initiatives
• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, an architect, as well as a business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled contracting lawyer

Qualifications:

• LLB or JD (or equivalent)
• Minimum 4 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced inhouse role in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 2 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Proven negotiator with an 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 negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements
• Understand basic principles of finance, accounting, marketing, and management
• Strong executive presence
• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Melayu. Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia or Thai language is a bonus.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 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 helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI 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 Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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