Jobs at Accenture

Job Summary:

• Participate in local and global leadership meetings as required from time to time. Maintain general oversight and advisory role in relation to all legal matters impacting on Accenture in the local market as well as other markets in which the Company operates. Engage as necessary with other legal leads locally and globally to ensure awareness regarding relevant matters and connected engagement between all legal functions. Provide pro-active legal advice to business and leadership regarding matters of concern.
• Review, draft, and negotiate several types of client-facing contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment. Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing Accenture’s market-facing strategy.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Maintain “one legal” engagement model between all legal functions in South Africa, and ensure correct engagement with global legal functions;
• Engage with business leadership and participate in relevant local and, as applicable, global leadership forums in order to provide business with pro-active advice and guidance on matters of interest impacting on legal position/risk of the Company
• Oversee and guide implementation of revised contract models from time to time including guiding colleagues in global legal delivery centres on matters pertaining to local law and local contracting requirements, reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements and requests for proposals/other client tender documents as indicated above;
• Structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective;
• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs and Global Legal Network collegues;
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices;
• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues;
• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business;
• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues;
• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives;

Relationships:

• Reports to: Contracting Lead UKIA
• Supervises: Local contracting team
• External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; outside counsel

Qualifications:

• Appropriate Legal degree(s)
• Admitted attorney or advocate (whether practicing or non-practicing) in at least South Africa
• Minimum 10 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility following date of admission as attorney or advocate. Such experience should be in a law firm, private legal practice, or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry;
• Experience across a broad range of different disciplines/legal areas  will be advantageous, including litigation, corporate governance, public sector procurement law, competition law, labour law, corporate law – expert knowledge in all areas is not required, but sufficient familiarity with these areas will be necessary so as to enable you to identify any potential issues or risks related to business transactions and contracts or the business in general and to provide guidance as to resolution of matter including by engaging appropriate external counsel to provide specialist advice as needed.   

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Proven ability to interact with senior leadership and function at leadership level in a large and complex organization and having held demonstrable senior leadership position(s);
• Proven capabilities/familiarity with a broad area of legal disciplines sufficient to fulfil oversight and advisory role;
• Proven contracting history as lead negotiator
• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions.
• Experience negotiating technology-based arrangements;
• Demonstrable ability to independently manage drafting and reviewing of transactional documents and correspondence;
• Strong executive presence;
• Able to present alternatives and propose solutions to issues, and must be sufficiently skilled, and strong enough to form and defend opinions held both internally and externally as required;
• Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills;
• Ability to work independently as well as part of local and/or global teams;
• Ability to apply judgment to broaden influence;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Proficient in MS Office suite of products.

Additional Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in working with state and local government agencies.
• Experience in a multi-jurisdictional environment with knowledge of cross-border transactions.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitating client process walkthroughs to understand business processes and alignment with solution functionality.
• Acting in a client facing role to determine business requirements.
• Identifying how the Oracle Cloud Finance solution can be best utilised to meet client requirements.
• Providing support to the interface workstream to understand business scenarios and integration between the solution and other applications.
• Supporting configuration, testing, training, data migration and change management workstreams.
• Project management or team lead of large Oracle Cloud Finance implementation
• Be the design lead of Oracle Cloud Finance implementations for the modules in your expertise.
• Shape Oracle Cloud Finance solutions to help our clients solve complex situations.
• Deliver also advisory services in broader technology-enabled business change
• (integrator selection, vendor selection, application studies, solution architecture, or program diagnostics and recovery).
• Deliver advisory services to the most innovative client organisations.
• Building and maintaining client relationships Qualifications

Qualification

Qualifications

• An appropriate bachelor's degree together with applicable work experience would be advantageous.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• +8 Year experience in complex Oracle Cloud Finance Implementations.
• +5 years’ experience in designing and/or implementing Oracle Cloud Finance (in lead roles).
• Certified in one or more Oracle Cloud Finance modules.
• Strong communication and leading skills.
• Understanding of Finance Business Processes.

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Tasks

• Apply standards to identify safety risk and protect cyber-physical functions
• Determine the operational and safety impacts of cybersecurity lapses for Accenture customers
• Review enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives
• Implement and review intelligence collection requirements
• Develop strategic plans
• Maintain strategic plans
• Develop risk, compliance, and assurance measurement and monitoring strategies
• Manage Accenture customer’s cybersecurity budget, staffing, and contracting
• Identify opportunities for new and improved business process solutions
• Advise stakeholders on the development of continuity of operations plans
• Conduct technology program and project audits
• Oversee independent cybersecurity audits
• Determine if technology services are delivered successfully
• Gather customer satisfaction and service performance feedback
• Define operating level agreements (OLAs) in collaboration with customers
• Determine supply chain cybersecurity requirements
• Determine if cybersecurity requirements included in contracts are delivered
• Advise stakeholders on enterprise cybersecurity risk management

Knowledge

Knowledge of :

• security operational planning processes
• cybersecurity practices in the acquisition process
• Computer networking protocols
• Cyber risk management processes
• Local and international cybersecurity laws and regulations
• Local privacy laws and regulations
• Cybersecurity principles and practices
• Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities
• Risk management principles and practices
• Information technology (IT) architecture models and frameworks
• System threats and vulnerabilities
• Resource management principles and practices
• System life cycle management principles and practices
• Process improvement principles and practices
• Process maturity models and frameworks
• Service management principles and practices

• Industry experience such as Manufacturing, Mining and Telecommunications will be advantageous.

Qualification

• Minimum BSC/BCOM in Computer related studies in a reputable institution in South Africa
• CISSP/CISM or other information security certifications advantageous

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Job Description

Skills Development Strategy & Planning

• Develop and implement an annual Skills Development Plan aligned with business objectives and legal requirements.
• Conduct skills audits and training needs analyses in collaboration with HRBPs and departmental leaders.
• Ensure initiatives align with the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR).

Regulatory Compliance & Reporting

• Prepare and submit WSP and ATR reports to the relevant SETA.
• Ensure full compliance with the Skills Development Act, Employment Equity Act, and B-BBEE requirements.
• Maintain accurate training records, including attendance registers and assessments.

Learnerships, Internships & Apprenticeships

• Design, implement, and manage learnerships, internships, and apprenticeships in collaboration with training providers and SETAs.
• Ensure compliance with all related contractual and legal obligations.
• Monitor programme effectiveness and learner progress.

B-BBEE Alignment

• Lead and optimise performance on the Skills Development element of the B-BBEE scorecard.
• Collaborate with Transformation and Compliance teams to achieve spend and demographic targets.
• Support the B-BBEE audit and verification process with relevant data and documentation.

Training Programme Management

• Identify and manage relationships with accredited training providers.
• Oversee delivery and quality of internal and external training programmes.
• Monitor training budgets and ensure ROI and alignment with rebate opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the main liaison for SETAs, QCTO, and other regulatory bodies.
• Provide guidance and support to internal stakeholders, including managers and employees, on skills development matters.
• Assist in developing Individual Development Plans (IDPs).

Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting

• Analyse and report on training metrics and skills development KPIs.
• Conduct post-training evaluations and impact assessments.
• Prepare regular updates for HR leadership, EXCO, and audit teams.

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Education, Industrial Psychology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in Skills Development or Learning & Development.
• Strong knowledge of South African labour and skills development legislation, including B-BBEE and SETA processes.
• Proven experience with WSP/ATR submissions, learnership management, and training ROI analysis.
• Certified Skills Development Facilitator (SDF).