Geographic Legal Counsel Specialist with Italian

• →Understand the CORE areas, relevant company policies
• →Develop subject-matter knowledge and proficiency in the concerned support area and act as its POC

• →Directly liaison with internal stakeholders on various issues and build credible and effective relationships with onshore counsels and within GLN team
• →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, manage SharePoint and communication records
• →Support recruitment efforts for the team, supervise resources, and assist GLN Team Lead in people management, as required, provide team members with positive and developmental feedback
• →Identify and support any specific trainings for the team, provide coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team
• →Support implementation of new initiatives in CORE support area or within Legal/GLN, try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal.

• →Provide legal support to Accenture Corporate Functions and other areas on local & global legal matters. Provide legal advice and guidance and respond to inquiries made by various internal teams such as Workplace Solutions, Marketing & Communication, HR, Corporate Citizenship, CIO, IT and business teams, among others, on their daily operation.
• →Provide Legal advice and support various areas of Accenture in the Compliance area, supporting with local Ethics & Compliance matters, Anticorruption, Competition Law, Regulatory, Data Privacy,  Accenture’s policies, Intellectual Property, conflicts of interests and reviews of Codes of Conduct, among others.  Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and with Accenture global and local policies and processes. Flag compliance risks in the day-to-day Accenture operations.
• →Provide Legal support in the review of local & global Data Privacy initiatives. Identify risks according to local law and Accenture policies and flag potential issues.
• →Support Entity Matters operations with various tasks, including drafting of corporate documents, drafting Board of Directors’ resolutions, management of Power of Attorneys, support to PMI processes and maintaining updated databases, among others. 
• →Provide general legal support in different areas collaborating with other Accenture Legal teams, such as Litigation, Employment Law, Taxes, Acquisitions, Administrative Law and Contract Management, among others.
• →Support the provision of training to Accenture teams on matters related to the support to the Corporate Functions.

• Team members providing services on a process/project or account/portfolio of accounts

• Accenture Counsels, Client commercial, procurement, contract management, business executives, outside counsels, vendors, corporate function

• Italian Bachelor’s degree in Law

• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience at law firms or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing. Experience with drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements.
• Flueent in Italiian and English (written and verbal)

• Experience in generic legal in-house matters, including but not limited to risk identification and mitigation, compliances, contracts, legal research, etc.

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