Risk and Compliance Associate

About the Role

This role is within the Global Legal Network (GLN) at Accenture, specifically supporting the CORE and Global Services (CGS) team in India. GLN provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services, focusing on delivering value and innovation by partnering with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centers of excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities

• Understand the CORE areas.
• Understand relevant company policies.
• Understand company's service offerings in context of the support area.
• Understand company's approval processes and ensure timely engagement and information of stakeholders.
• Assist in drafting checklists, process documents, and generic tracking reports.
• Directly liaise with internal stakeholders on various issues.
• Recognize issues and provide timely escalation to Team Lead or appropriate stakeholders.
• Understand and suggest process improvements in the support area.
• Provide on-the-job training and support to new joiners.
• Support implementation of new initiatives in the support area or within Legal/GLN.
• Build credible and effective relationships within the GLN team.
• Support the tech team in developing new tech tools or enhancing existing ones.
• Manage SharePoint and communication records.

Specific Responsibilities Aligned To Role

• Demonstrate review skills with minimal dependency on supervisor inputs.
• Review contracts/sub-contracts, proposals, agreements, and other documents relevant to the CORE functional area for process compliance.
• Assist in negotiating access-related documentation and other contracts in collaboration with the account CM or legal counsel, ensuring proper risk mitigation before permitting colocation arrangements.
• Conduct end-to-end compliance and risk analysis for commercial software used in project solutions, for software usage, tools, applications developed by Accenture, and for reusable technical assets.
• Review, evaluate, and recommend whether Accenture has the right to reuse/redistribute software, tools, and applications developed by Accenture, based on related third-party licenses and associated IP rights. Define the scope and limits of Accenture's use and reuse of such assets.
• Review, evaluate, and recommend the rights and restrictions involved in a software license agreement and end-user license agreement for both commercial and non-commercial software. Analyze associated risks in using software on Accenture-owned devices according to the user's intended scope of usage.
• Directly liaise with internal stakeholders and deal teams on various legal and commercial software licensing aspects.
• Understand process improvements in the CORE support area and assist in drafting checklists and process documents.
• Support implementation of new initiatives in License Management or within Legal Services.
• Understand company's service offerings in the context of License Management and ensure compliance with applicable company policies, procedures, and the regulatory environment.
• Independently handle requests, understand business requirements, and advise on process compliance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders for process improvement and track requests, generating quarterly and annual reports for senior management.
• Maintain process compliance in line with company policies and procedures, ensure issues are resolved, and escalate to the line manager.

Requirements & Tech Stack

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Qualifications

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