EY Law Contract Solutions Senior FY26 HDG#1409

EY Law Contract Solutions Senior

Legal departments and the corporate functions they support are facing significant pressure to demonstrate greater efficiency and value. New regulations technologies and events are prompting corporations to explore new ways to enable their functions reduce costs and provide value through optimized contracting services. The investment in legal services including AI is at the center of the growth strategy for EY Law. As a Senior youll be at the heart of that goal. Its a role with far-reaching implications so youll be working with stakeholders across industries with some of the most innovative technologies available and learning from industry experts.

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior in our US EY Law practice. Our Legal Transform and Operate/Contract Solutions team works with clients to improve the performance of enterprise contracting operations and add value to the overall organization. Contract Solutions serves high-profile national and multinational clients across the globe. We are a growing dynamic practice with excellent opportunities for career development.

At EY you will be part of a learning culture where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged excellence is rewarded and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching mentoring and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

Responsibilities

Major areas where the individual provides assistance include:

• Supporting delivery of project-based engagements involving contract review abstraction analysis and remediation services in response to client transactions and other triggering events

• Create executive summaries of executed contracts to enable client business teams understanding of risk and compliance with positions
• Review redlining and negotiation of broad range of contract types including procurement and sale of services technology data content and products
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to mitigate identified risks in the contract language being negotiated and ensure the commercial objectives are fulfilled within the stipulated timeframe
• Understand and work within client specific processes and negotiation strategies
• Communicate independently with the clients business and legal stakeholders with a view to building/strengthening relationships
• Work within a team to ensure service delivery in accordance with the agreed project scope ensuring overall client satisfaction and compliance with SLAs and actively identifying client needs
• Participate in regular communication forums involving internal and external stakeholders
• Work to understand implement and facilitate use of Contract Management technologies and AI point solutions to enable delivery services and address client needs.

• Innovate and improve upon current processes and techniques including in relation to workflow time and knowledge management.

• Facilitate reporting via daily/weekly/monthly metrics packs to internal and external project stakeholders including members of senior management

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 3 to 5 years of experience in (including combination of) a large multinational corporation law firm or management consulting firm
• Deep contracting subject matter expertise; ability to work with different contract types and structures and strong issue spotting ability
• Contract negotiation experience handling volumes across a variety of transactions; ideally on both the buy and sell side
• Experience leading workstreams in large data-driven engagements
• Strong communication writing and interpersonal skills at all levels including presentation skills both formal and informal
• Familiarity working with contracting/ CLM technology and an interest in developing and utilizing leading AI applications
• Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers other project managers and team members) as well as external clients
• Strong relationship and people leadership skills be a team player facilitate encourage different points of view and effectively manage any associated conflict
• High energy self-starter ability to work independently analytical quick learner organized flexible to change and drives results
• Strong problem solving analytical and project management skills are desirable

Ideal candidates should have:

• JD or masters degree in a preferred field (Information Systems Business Analytics Finance or Accounting)
• Membership in good standing with a State Bar or relevant certifications (e.g. CPA CIPP/E CIPPM CISA CISSP CISM LPIP PMP)
• Experience working with legal-adjacent functions (e.g. procurement supply chain commercial) and understanding of non-legal business objectives

What we look for

We seek candidates with strong contracting process and operations knowledge demonstrated ability to team with and motivate others and demonstrated ability to build meaningful and influential relationships with clients and colleagues.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where youll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our addition our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage both pension and 401(k) plans unlimited paid time off plus 19 observed holidays and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical financial and social well-being. Plus we offer:

• Support coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way thats right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance tax transaction and advisory services were using the finance products expertise and systems weve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join however long you stay the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people well make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

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