Senior Legal Advisor with French

Short company description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company helping the world’s top businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, reinvent with data and AI, optimize operations, and accelerate growth. We are a talent‑ and innovation‑led company of approximately 779,000 people in more than 120 countries.
We’ve made 15 consecutive appearances in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, reflecting our commitment to putting people first.

Requirements

- University degree in law.
- Legal background mainly focused on contracting;
- Minimum 3-5 years of legal experience within a large company (multinational one preferred);
- Analytical thinking, good communication skills;
- Availability to travel - travel as required;
- Fluency in English and French, including legal French;
- Fluency in other language would be an advantage;
- Attention to details, organized, flexible;
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment;
- Strong written and oral communication skills;
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

You will provide support to the Global and/or Regional Service Center team and the Global Data Privacy team to enable the administration of contracts and subcontracts. The specific focus will be on reviewing, drafting and advising on contracts including EU model clauses, data transfer agreements, inter-company agreements and data privacy provisions. All of them should be in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws, and customer requirements.

You will be responsible for tracking and monitoring contract changes, deliverables, correspondence and risks, maintaining associated documentation, advising on contract risk and issues, and other duties as may be assigned.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support of a project team (Legal Professionals, Contract Management and business teams) and/or Service Center in accomplishing assigned tasks, including but not limited to reviewing of contracts or dealing with different administrative matters;
- Assist in the application of tools and processes for the performance of Service Center designated activities;
- Perform research on contractual terms and conditions or other regulations;
- Responsible for ensuring that where Contracting is deployed, all contract risks and issues are identified, contract compliance is maintained and issues resolved. If the contract is not aligned with or issues are not resolved they should be promptly raised to their Contracting line manager;
- With/ without supervision, may work on small, medium, large and multiple engagements or single engagement;
- May be requested to provide information relative local customs and practices which could potentially impact the Service Centers.