Job Description

Accenture Legal encompasses ~3000 lawyers, contract management and other professionals in 47 countries, making us amongst the biggest in-house units of our kind globally.

The Employment Law Team sits within the Compliance, Offerings, Regulatory & Ethics (CORE) function within Legal, and offers the full range of Employment Law services from advisory and litigation support on HR (Human Resources) and Employee Relations issues to implementing compliance projects and supporting transactional matters. The team also has responsibility for overseeing employment law matters across the Southeast Asia (SEA) region.

Enjoy challenging and interesting work that requires innovation and creativity. Your entrepreneurial spirit and vision will be encouraged and rewarded, and your success will fuel opportunities for increased impact and rapid career advancement. You will also build the deep, valuable industry and functional expertise that will keep you relevant as you grow your career.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting into the Employment Law Lead, this is an exciting opportunity to work directly with key stakeholders across a workload that is both interesting and varied:

· Provide strategic and pragmatic Employment Law advice on a wide range of advisory matters to key internal stakeholders – including Human Resources, Employee Relations, Inclusion and Diversity, Total Rewards, Mobility, Mobilisation and Leadership.

· Oversee and provide support for litigation and pre-litigation matters, in conjunction with Employee Relations team and external counsel.

· Provide operational and strategic support for transactional matters:

 o Outsourcing – negotiating and advising on contractual aspects of outsourcing deals including risk management and transition of staff into (and out from) Accenture.

 o Ventures & Acquisitions – negotiating and advising on Mergers and Acquisition/joint venture deals, including due diligence, deal execution and post-merger integration support.

· Advise on industrial relations and collective bargaining issues, particularly collective consultation requirements.

· Contribute to development of internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on Employment Law and business issues for the region.

· Manage and oversee external counsel relationships with law firms as appropriate, including budget management.

· Stay abreast of legal developments impacting on Accenture, its clients, and industries and incorporate it into company practices.

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