Legal Counsel Manager - Telecom & Energy Sector

Generic Responsibilities:

- Understand the CORE areas

- Understand relevant company policies

- Develop subject-matter expertise in the concerned support area

- Act as a POC for support area

- Understand and suggest process improvements in the support area

- Support LTO/CIO in development of new tool or enhancement of existing ones

- Assist team in drafting checklists and process documents

- Directly liaison with internal and external stakeholders on various issues

- Manage SharePoint and communication records

- Identify and support any specific trainings for the team

- Support implementation of new initiatives in CORE support area or within Legal/GLN

- Build credible and effective relationships with onshore counsels and within GLN team

- Support recruitment efforts for the team

- Supervise resources, and assist GLN Team Lead in people management, as required

- Provide coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team

- Provide individuals with positive and developmental feedback

- Try to 'give back' to GLN/Legal.

- Manage and supervise allocation of work and delegation of tasks to team, per bandwidth and requirement

- Quality Analysis of Regulatory Reviews prepared by team Members

- Assist Team Lead in coordination activities, managing workload and planning organizational adjustments in the Team

- Deliver global training and help build key relationships with Business and internal teams and global stakeholders

- Help develop team members in higher complexity Reviews by knowledge transfer and training

- Independently conduct Regulatory Reviews for various Offerings under the scope of the team.

- Manage medium to high complexity regulatory reviews.

- Recognize issues and provide timely escalation to Team Leads, in-country Counsels, or appropriate stakeholders

- Direct communication with business teams & internal stakeholders regarding specific regulatory matters.

- Act as escalation point for issues related to Regulatory Reviews and other similar processes

- Interact with external counsel, manage ongoing research requests.

- Understand whether licenses are needed, determine how to obtain them, and acquire them for Accenture's Offerings.

- Conduct and coordinate internal research projects, ensuring outcomes are delivered in agreed upon format.

- Participate in/lead strategic initiatives.

- Prepare presentations, email templates and newsletters.

- Elaborate, compare and refresh guidance documents.

Offerings:

- Conduct and coordinate internal research projects, ensuring outcomes are delivered in agreed upon format.

- Participate in/lead strategic initiatives.

- Prepare presentations, email templates and newsletters.

- Elaborate, compare and refresh guidance documents.

Certifications and Membership:

- Compliance related global professional certification considered a plus

Work Experience:

- Minimum of 10+ years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing, as an attorney providing legal and regulatory advice, including experience as a transactional attorney

- Good knowledge of relevant regulations and market trends

- Management experience in a corporate legal department or Law Firm

- Experience in driving complex multi-national projects and deals

- Knowledge in designing/implementing compliance programs

- Management of outside counsels on complex multi-national transactions