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20/08 Jayamalini
HR at EY

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EY - Assistant Manager/Tech Lawyer - LLB (5-8 yrs)

Bangalore/Gurgaon/Gurugram Job Code: 1142640

Tech Lawyer AM role


Role description

Role: Assistant Manager,

Description/responsibilities:

Part of the Global GCO team, and shall as EY's legal representative, the Global Legal Counsel will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising on various procurement (and client) contracts, in particular:

- IT contracts for multiple EY divisions and variety of technologies (such as AI, robotics, analytics, blockchain).

- Software License contracts.

- Hosted software/hosted services agreements

- IT Services agreements and SLAs

- Software support agreements

- Sponsorship contracts

- Meeting and events contracts

- Services contracts

- Client Engagement letters

Key Responsibilities:

- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, finalizing and advising on global procurement (and client contracts, as required) contracts (for EY and its global network member firms) and shall include

- Providing business and legal advice and guidance to internal clients and end users regarding potential issues stemming from new and existing contracts

- Working with internal clients to develop strategies to address issues identified.

- Communicating progress, challenges, risks and benefits to appropriate management levels and affected user groups and other members of the GCO in the relevant jurisdictions.

- Understanding practice and user business goals and how they impact the types of products and services procured.

- Coordinating with cross functional teams (tax, data privacy, information security) in respect to contract review as appropriate.

- Ensuring that accurate and sufficient contractual documentation are developed to effectively document procurement transactions and to protect EY's interests.

- Preparing and maintaining internal contract summary reports for review as needed.

- Understanding the EY policies that are relevant to transactions and how contract drafting, negotiation and execution are impacted by those policies (Independence, Procurement, Data Privacy, etc.).

- Ensuring that all contractual documents developed are compliant with EY policies.

- Managing own workflow and propose process improvements.

- Maintaining an understanding of the impact of changes in EY policies, organizational structure, and procedures.

- Guiding and handholding the junior team members in their day-to-day transactions.

Knowledge, skills and experience:

- 3-4 years of Technology/software-related negotiation experience (licensee side preferably)

- Preferable if the candidates had at least some experience negotiating with the "big box" vendors (IBM, MSFT, SAP, etc.)

- Excellent negotiation skills;

- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and vendors;

- High degree of cultural and emotional intelligence;

- Ability to team effectively with onshore legal team and colleagues in other functions;

- Ability to grasp, understand, and accurately articulate and document technology transactions;

- Expertise in contract law, contract drafting, software licensing, intellectual property, data protection & privacy;

- Ability to assess size, scope and overall risk of contemplated transactions and to tailor contracts accordingly;

- Highly responsive with ability to manage high workload volumes efficiently and effectively;

- Solution oriented with focus on exceptional client service;

- Keen attention to detail;

- Strong communication and English language (verbal and written) skills;

- Solutions oriented with relentless focus on world class execution of projects and tasks;

- Confidence, maturity and high degree of awareness to be able to work effectively with a broad base of senior-level internal stakeholders;

- Strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership for success of a given task;

- Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment and ability to work cooperatively with other teams and country practices, demonstrating cultural sensitivity;

- Strong service-oriented personality, proficient at delivering the highest quality of work within deadlines;

- High levels of personal energy and appetite for work and success.

Other Personal Characteristics:

- Unquestioned ethics and integrity.

- High level of self-confidence and energy.

- High level of intellectual agility, initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness, and patience.

- Pragmatic with strong business acumen.

- Mature individual with good judgement.

- Strong analytical skills.

- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.

Qualifications: Strong academic record, 5-8 years of years of post-qualification experience

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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