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September 12, 2024
Accenture
Buenos Aires
OTHER
Geographic Legal Counsel Specialist
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Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centres of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness.
The Entity Matters role exist to support the management of more than 700 Accenture entities in more than 70 countries by tracking entity information such as shareholders, directors, officers, subsidiaries and changes thereto; managing related company records such constituent documents, shareholder/board minutes, powers of attorney, registrations, etc; and using the foregoing information to produce reports, organizational charts and other material needed to comply with local and global regulatory requirements. Assist with corporate secretarial activity such as approval of annual accounts, changes to directors and officers and management of powers of attorney. To manage various projects related to entity maintenance; and work with and maintain our main state of the art technologies and solutions including Global Entity Management System (GEMS), Share Point, etc.
Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role
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Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centres of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness.
The Entity Matters role exist to support the management of more than 700 Accenture entities in more than 70 countries by tracking entity information such as shareholders, directors, officers, subsidiaries and changes thereto; managing related company records such constituent documents, shareholder/board minutes, powers of attorney, registrations, etc; and using the foregoing information to produce reports, organizational charts and other material needed to comply with local and global regulatory requirements. Assist with corporate secretarial activity such as approval of annual accounts, changes to directors and officers and management of powers of attorney. To manage various projects related to entity maintenance; and work with and maintain our main state of the art technologies and solutions including Global Entity Management System (GEMS), Share Point, etc.
Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role
- Take responsibility for maintaining the accuracy and completion of entity data and records: ensure accuracy of GEMS records in respect of entities and their ownership, subsidiaries, directors & officers and basic information (such as registered address, company registration number, date formed/acquired…) by, namely, :
- Assisting, advising and performing legal due diligences for geographic expansions
- As and when required, reach out to local external counsel to seek advice on local company law or other applicable law to identify the risks and consequences of performing the services onshore in the case at hand; while doing so, fulfil any administrative or compliance responsibilities in relation to the onboarding of the law firm as an Accenture supplier (including compliance checks and risk assessments) in conjunction with the Procurement team, and coordinating with regards to the settlement of the counsel’s invoices, in conjunction with AP team;
- Understand considerations from Global Tax, Employment Tax & Immigration, Global Assistance and Protection and Treasury perspectives.
- Draft and implement corporate documentation for entities within region and ensure signature coordination and authentication coordination of same.
- Manage corporate secretarial matters, including documentation necessary to appoint/dismiss Directors and other Corporate Officers, holding of Annual General Meetings.
- Maintenance of “Entity Matters” information for responsible countries.
- Instruct External Counsel resources on specific projects.
- Support the team with matters relating to ensuring Policy compliance, research and advisory matters.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on various legal and commercial issues.
- Competent in building credibility and effective relationships within Legal team and with business and/or external Clients (as applicable);
- Escalate appropriately where needed and coordinate matters with internal and external stakeholders to find solutions.
- Coordinate and undertake legal assessments on regional/global projects, policies and compliance initiatives.
- Identify process improvements in Entity Matters or Corporate Functions domains and lead team in developing/drafting of guidelines, handbooks, know how material, checklists and process/tools associated documents (global/regional and local) for standardizing the process.
- Supervision of junior team members and quality of data in GEMS.
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Education and Experience:
Education:
Work Experience:
Work Requirements:
Education:
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Bachelor’s degree in Law
Work Experience:
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Corporate law and/or company secretary experience preferred;
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Minimum of 3-4 of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing
Work Requirements:
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Fluency in English with strong oral and written communication skills
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