Compliance and Ethics Counsel Manager

Compliance & Ethics Counsel Manager

Skill required: Contract Management - Regulatory Compliance Management
Designation: Compliance & Ethics Counsel Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18yrs
About Accenture
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What would you do? Draft, review and negotiate the buyside agreements and similar/related documentation with Accenture supplier, to procure various goods and services including but not limited to Contractors, Human Resources Support, IT & Telecom, Marketing & Communications, Workplace Support (Facilities & Services), Software as a Service etc. in accordance with Accenture s supplier s contracting standards, applicable laws, and business requirements to ensure contractual risks are clearly identified and addressed in compliance with Accenture s policies and standards. Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centres of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness.Legal Buyside Contracting is a focused legal function for third party contracting. The team is involved with drafting, reviewing and negotiating third party supplier contracts for Accenture and acts as a legal advisory services function leveraging technology to deliver support.Complexity: • Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures.• Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture.Overall Generic Responsibilities• Develop subject-matter knowledge and increase proficiency in the concerned support area and act as its POC• Directly liaison with internal stakeholders on various issues and build credible and effective relationships with the internal stakeholders as well as within the team• Support implementation of new initiatives in Legal Buyside Contracting support area or within Legal/GLN, try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal.• Ma
What are we looking for? Education:• Bachelor’s degree in Law.Work Experience:• Minimum of 3 years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing. Experience with drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreementsWork Requirements:• Travel may be required. • Fluency in English (and other language, depending on geography supported) with strong oral and written communication skillsKnowledge and Skill Requirements:• Demonstrate promptness, accuracy, consistency, and drives tasks to closure• Able to work with internal and external teams to assist with day to day support and to understand delivery requirements • Demonstrate adaptability, positive & collaborative attitude, good interpersonal skills, strong time management and prioritization skills, attention to detail, sound judgement, and organization skills• Demonstrates keenness to learn and train on new processes and areas, able to assist with day-to-day support and to understand delivery requirements• Able to recommend high quality and timely advice for risk mitigation by efficiently assessing business and legal implications• Understand Accenture offerings and function specific services, general basic corporate business practices, contracting regulations, commercial agreements, legal and compliance fundamentalsBehaviors and Attributes:• Understand cross-cultures and open to work with team members across the globe• Understand the value of diversity and recognize the strengths that different styles, innovative perspectives and experiences bring to Accenture
Roles and Responsibilities: "As part of the Accenture’s Global Data Privacy team, the role will include the following data privacy responsibilities:• Provide subject matter expertise and advice to internal corporate and client facing functions globally in respect of data privacy, privacy risk management, privacy reviews, incident handling and individual rights requests. • Support and drive development or improvement of the data privacy team’s processes and internal tools, and methodologies for governance and risk management in a data privacy context. • Conduct privacy reviews of new or existing internal projects and/or client facing and other data privacy compliance strategic projects on regional and global scale. Act as an expert on data privacy topics related to the processing of personal data within Accenture’s internal functions and client facing services. • Effectively work with the regional and local stakeholders to create and maintain suitable privacy review processes and embed privacy by design methodology into relevant business processes. The role will also closely collaborate with other legal functions, especially with Employment Law and Geographic Compliance & Corporate teams and with colleagues in Corporate Functions including the Data Privacy and Information Security Leads. Effectively work with the other DP team roles on global DP initiatives and projects and Data Privacy and Information Security Leads, where required. The role will require the successful candidate to stay abreast of legal and regulatory developments related to data privacy and adjacent fields/areas/topics, including public policy, regional data privacy regulation and standards that potentially impact Accenture and our clients’ ability to comply with local DP requirements. Further responsibilities related to the above may be aligned with the role in accordance with the needs of the team.Work Requirements• Must have ability to effectively work with others remotely and independently and manage a schedule with global clients and internal POC.Knowledge And Skill Requirements• Demonstrate data privacy and data security expertise of global data privacy and related laws.• Demonstrate experience in project/program management and operational skills to lead cross-functional projects, especially in a multi-cultural environment.• Be able to explain difficult-to-understand ideas, processes, or plans in simple terms, enhance simplification.