Country Legal And Contracting Counsel Lead (Sa)

Accenture In South Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1 200 000 - 1 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is seeking a Country Legal and Contracting Counsel Lead in Gauteng. This role involves providing legal advice, negotiating contracts, and engaging with business leadership. The ideal candidate should possess a legal degree, be an admitted attorney in South Africa, and have at least 10 years of relevant experience. The position offers competitive rewards and opportunities for career progression in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Continuous coaching from senior colleagues

Competitive rewards

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, and outsourcing.
• Experience in law firms or fast-paced corporate legal environments.
• Knowledge across various legal areas including corporate governance and competition law.

Responsibilities

• Participate in local and global leadership meetings.
• Provide pro-active legal advice on various matters.
• Negotiate client-facing contractual agreements.

Skills

Interaction with senior leadership

Contract negotiation

Time management

Expertise in legal disciplines

Excellent communication skills

Education

Appropriate Legal degree(s)

Admitted attorney or advocate in South Africa

Tools

MS Office suite

Job description

Country Legal and Contracting Counsel Lead (SA)

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Job Summary

• Participate in local and global leadership meetings as required from time to time.
• Maintain general oversight and advisory role in relation to all legal matters impacting on Accenture in the local market as well as other markets in which the Company operates.
• Engage as necessary with other legal leads locally and globally to ensure awareness regarding relevant matters and connected engagement between all legal functions.
• Provide pro‑active legal advice to business and leadership regarding matters of concern.
• Review, draft, and negotiate several types of client‑facing contractual agreements in a fast‑paced corporate environment.
• Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing Accenture's market‑facing strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain "one legal" engagement model between all legal functions in South Africa, and ensure correct engagement with global legal functions.
• Engage with business leadership and participate in relevant local and, as applicable, global leadership forums in order to provide business with pro‑active advice and guidance on matters of interest impacting on legal position/risk of the Company.
• Oversee and guide implementation of revised contract models from time to time including guiding colleagues in global legal delivery centres on matters pertaining to local law and local contracting requirements, reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements and requests for proposals/other client tender documents as indicated above.
• Structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.
• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs and Global Legal Network colleagues.
• 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 Legal Group initiatives.

Relationships

• Reports to: Contracting Lead UKIA
• Supplies: Local contracting team
• External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; outside counsel

Qualifications

• Appropriate Legal degree(s)
• Admitted attorney or advocate (whether practicing or non‑practicing) in at least South Africa
• Minimum 10 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility following date of admission as attorney or advocate.
• Such experience should be in a law firm, private legal practice, or in a fast‑paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry.
• Experience across a broad range of different disciplines/legal areas will be advantageous, including litigation, corporate governance, public sector procurement law, competition law, labour law, corporate law – expert knowledge in all areas is not required, but sufficient familiarity with these areas will be necessary so as to enable you to identify any potential issues or risks related to business transactions and contracts or the business in general and to provide guidance as to resolution of matter including by engaging appropriate external counsel to provide specialist advice as needed.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Proven ability to interact with senior leadership and function at leadership level in a large and complex organization and having held demonstrable senior leadership position(s).
• Proven capabilities/familiarity with a broad area of legal disciplines sufficient to fulfil oversight and advisory role.
• Proven contracting history as lead negotiator.
• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions.
• Experience negotiating technology‑based arrangements.
• Demonstrable ability to independently manage drafting and reviewing of transactional documents and correspondence.
• Strong executive presence.
• Able to present alternatives and propose solutions to issues, and must be sufficiently skilled, and strong enough to form and defend opinions held both internally and externally as required.
• Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of local and/or global teams.
• Ability to apply judgment to broaden influence.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office suite of products.

Additional Desirable Criteria

• Experience in working with state and local government agencies.
• Experience in a multi‑jurisdictional environment with knowledge of cross‑border transactions.

Why join us?

We offer a transparent, fast‑paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues. You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools. Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards. You will have access to state‑of‑the‑art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends. You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live.

Seniority level: Director

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Legal and Consulting, Business Consulting and Services

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