Assistant Manager - GCO Contracts - Rank 64

Job description

Role description

 

Role : Assistant Manager, Global Legal Counsel

Group : GDS, supporting the Global General Counsel’s Office (GCO)

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 contracts, in particular:
·  IT contracts for multiple EY divisions and variety of technologies (such as AI, robotics, analytics, M2M), including:
·  Software License contracts;
·  Hosted software/hosted services agreements;
·  IT Services agreements and SLAs;
·  Software support agreements
·  Sponsorship contracts;
·  Meeting and events contracts;
·  Services contracts;
·  Consultancy Agreements

Key Responsibilities

·  Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, finalising and advising on global procurement 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 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:

·  Candidates needs to have a minimum of 3-4 years of software-related negotiation experience (licensee side preferably)
·  It would also be 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 in a major jurisdi