Deloitte is hiring Legal Business Services (Legal Trained) - Consultant /

Position Summary

Context: Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory Function (Advisory) helps clients manage strategic, financial, operational, technological, and regulatory risk to enhance enterprise value, while our experience in mergers and acquisitions, fraud, litigation, and reorganizations helps clients emerge stronger and more resilient. Learn more about Deloitte Advisory.

Legal Business Services (Advisory), is a part of Advisory function and focuses on providing a breadth of business services to our clients – corporate legal teams of multinational corporations and law firms. We work closely in collaboration with other functions of Deloitte – Deloitte Tax, and Deloitte Consulting. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice.

Why you should come work with us:

Advisory’s Legal Business Services (LBS) practice, believes,

· That legal teams can transform the ways in which they deliver value to businesses, when

· they are able to reimagine how all aspects of their work are received, processed, and delivered.

· Our practice simply helps them perceive these new possibilities and make them realities

To this end, we bring together a team of professionals who invariably bring to the table, a great attitude, a can-do spirit, legal and legal operations knowledge, and experience with proven technology solutions. And then, we focus our energies on creating better leaders out of them. And you’re invited to give us a try.

What you’ll do here:

As a professional in our LBS – India offices of the US (LBS USI), your work will involve supporting the delivery of engagements/projects for our clients in the US, UK, and other regions. Typically, depending on the engagement/project, the work may include any of the following:

· Contracts Analytics – Contract abstractions, contracts reviews & analysis, contracts migration, repapering, remediation, Template rationalization

· Managed Services – supporting end to end contract management process including drafting & redlining, of agreements & SoWs, negotiating and interfacing with third parties, managing agreement workflow with business

· System Implementations – Implementing contract management technologies and systems such as iCertis, Agiloft, Evisort etc. for our clients. Work typically involves understanding and reviewing business requirements and working on functionally configuring tools to align with such requirements

· Legal & CLM Assessments – Contracts & Legal workflow design, development, advisory, and consulting

· Information Governance/Data integration work – Assisting clients with set up, and streamlining of information governance practices within their organization

As a member of the practice, you will also be expected to:

· Read & understand the scope of each engagement, process updates, & relevant substantive issues and subjects pertaining to such engagement

· In a timely manner, seek clarifications on any questions within the engagement to ensure that your work is aligned with the client’s expectations

· In a timely manner, raise any flags that may hinder the delivery of the engagement and escalate appropriately

· Participate in client & leadership calls as needed

· Work closely and report directly into LBS USI project leads on project delivery

· Monitors your own quality, utilization, and productivity metrics

· Follows all best practices established by the LBS USI practice from time to time

If you are:

· Someone with legal training, and

· A substantive bent of mind coupled with process understanding

· A clear understanding of processes and practices in the commercial contracting space

· Preferably, some familiarity with contracts drafting, redlining, and negotiations

· Are familiar with the CLM Tools currently in vogue in the industry

· Have experience with contract management engagements – abstraction review, drafting etc. (all or any)

· Well versed with MS word, excel, and PPTs

· Have a relevant experience of 1-7 years

And:

· An empathetic team player

· Someone who believes in a community and workplace that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion

· Someone who believes in work life balance, and flexibility

· While also believing in a clients first approach,

· And bring a point of view to the table every time

Then, we’d like to talk to you.

Where you’ll work: Prioritizing your health safety and well-being always remains Deloitte’s number one priority. As such, while you will be assigned to one of Deloitte USI’s four India locations, you will be expected to attend work remotely at least until early Jan, 2022. We are also in the process of starting offices at new locations – including Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Kochi – not immediately but in due course. At the appropriate moment, please discuss with us on your location preferences and possibilities. We are also constantly monitoring the pandemic situation and appropriate government regulations and advisory regarding public safety. We will provide further guidance and policy on when we will return to offices accordingly. Our focus on your well-being will be continuous and paramount.

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