EY - Lead Analyst/Senior Analyst - Commercial Contracting - LLB

Lead Analyst Commercial Contracting /SA role

Key Responsibilities :

- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, finalising and advising for EY and/or 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 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 EY policies that are relevant to procurement 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 :

- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

- 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 and 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.

- 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 quality 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.

- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.

Qualifications : Legal graduate (LL.B) with consistent strong academic record.

Experience : 3 - 7 years of years of post-qualification experience