Regional Legal Lead Australia- NRR 3841
Accenture offers a compelling mix of work and training opportunities, work environment and structure for career progression.
Job Summary:
You will support Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, which is a leader in cloud services, AI, and sustainable industry solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem. Avanade focuses on mid-market clients with revenues ranging from $500 million to $5 billion, providing agile and high-value IT services.In this role, you will advise business leadership on legal risks and guide clients through contracting processes. You will drive growth by winning clients with creativity and innovative legal strategies, even in smaller deals. High agility and urgency are essential to manage a high volume of deals with shorter cycles and shifting priorities.
You will make informed decisions and take calculated risks to propel the business forward. Your role will involve balancing ease of collaboration with the need to avoid undue risk to Avanade. You will also balance the aggressive expansion of Avanade’s recurring platform business with providing customized, high-touch legal services for select clients who prefer traditional contract negotiations.
As an independent advisor on legal and commercial risks, you will support Legal, Business, and Sales Leadership in shaping Avanade’s mid-market strategies. We achieve this by being bold, fresh, passionate, and optimistic.
As Avanade’s Regional Legal Lead for Australia, you will be responsible for leading, structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex client transactions in a dynamic corporate environment. This includes master services agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals, and agreements involving cloud, security, artificial intelligence, systems integration, and agile development.
You will oversee the delivery of a variety of in-house legal services that support the business in achieving its goals while ensuring all areas of risk and compliance are managed effectively. You will collaborate with business management, business development executives, contract coordinators, internal business units, and other support functions.Additionally, you will manage a team to provide the necessary legal support to the business.
As a member of the Legal team, you are expected to be a steward for Accenture and Avanade’s business and people, and an exemplar of Accenture’s core values.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, shape, negotiate and close complex transactions.
- Work with finance, solution and commercial teams to identify and manage issues across the transaction and architect workable solutions.
- Work with deal teams to develop effective negotiating strategies.
- Form part of the negotiation team and lead the legal negotiations to conclude the contractual documents.
- Manage the escalation process for key legal and commercial risks.
- Prepare and provide briefings to legal and business approvers and other stakeholders.
- Counsel, guide, train and support other members of the legal team, including building the legal team’s negotiation and core deal-shaping skills and acumen.
- - Provide general legal advice and guidance to other business units including Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Sales and Marketing.
- Proactively manage and ensure all corporate compliance and company secretarial obligations are met for the business.
- Resolve issues and disputes, minimize potential for litigation and foster protection of Accenture and Avanade’s reputation.
- Actively participate in global legal initiatives, develop and present training initiatives for the benefit of the global legal team and the business.
- Also as a member of the Avanade Australian Leadership Team, support the business to meet its goals; including strategising with Avanade executives regarding legal issues that affect the company.
- Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices
- Support, promote and implement Accenture and Avanade Legals initiatives.