Senior Contracting Counsel: Lead Complex Transactions

Accenture; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced Lead Counsel to structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions across master services, outsourcing, SOWs, SLAs, licensing and SaaS agreements. You will advise senior leadership on legal risks and mentor junior professionals in a fast-paced environment.

You will stay updated on industry developments, educate executives on risk and contracting issues, and help develop internal guidelines and knowledge capital to support market-facing strategies.

Qualifications

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one South East Asian jurisdiction.
• Approximately 13 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing.
• Approximately 3 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture's largest and most complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.
• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior legal professionals.
• 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's 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.

Skills

Negotiation

Executive presence

Contract management

Stakeholder communication

Risk analysis

Leadership

Education

LLB/JD

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced Lead Counsel to structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions across master services, outsourcing, SOWs, SLAs, licensing and SaaS agreements. You will advise senior leadership on legal risks and mentor junior professionals in a fast-paced environment.

You will stay updated on industry developments, educate executives on risk and contracting issues, and help develop internal guidelines and knowledge capital to support market-facing strategies.