Manager - EY Law - Legal Transformation Solutions

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EY Law – Legal Transformation Solution – Manager

 

Legal departments are facing significant pressure to demonstrate greater efficiencies and value. New regulations, technologies and events are prompting legal departments to explore new ways to optimize their functions, reduce costs and provide value to the overall organization.

 

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior on our EY Law Legal Transformation Solution (LTS) team. Our LTS team works with clients to improve the performance of the legal function and add value to the overall organization. LTS serves high-profile, national, and multinational clients across the globe. We are a growing, dynamic practice with excellent opportunities for career development.

 

The EY LTS team is focused on helping clients improve how they operate their legal function. Many clients leverage groups like LTS to bring best-in-class ideas and provide the insight and experience on how to implement these ideas. Nearly all our projects are carried out in a teaming environment with client personnel often fully involved. Our LTS team is dedicated to helping companies: (1) assess the complexities of delivering value, (2) manage risk in their corporate legal functions, and (3) improve efficiency across all aspects of the legal department - talent, processes, technology, and actionable data. Team members serve as business advisors and assist clients in transforming their legal processes from analysis phase to full implementation.

 

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 technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

 

Your key responsibilities as a member of our team:

 

Ability to demonstrate proficiency or expertise in one or more of the following areas:

 

• Operating strategy and organizational design– assist clients in identifying improvement opportunities and developing responsive legal service delivery operating models and organizational structures
• Process Optimization – design effective and controlled legal-business processes to increase efficiency, reduce risk and drive business results.
• Spend analysis and strategic sourcing - perform spend analysis and correlative strategic planning for legal departments activities
• Legal contracts transformation – understand contracts and contract lifecycle management (CLM) processes. Assist clients modernize, streamline, and/or automate their contracting efforts as well as leverage the data available in contracts to deliver the business actionable insights.
• Digital transformation
  • Assist the client to maximize the value firm existing technology investments and design new legal service technology platforms (e.g., Case Management, Matter Management/ eBilling, CLM, legal service workflow, Document Management, Document Automation).
  • Experience with commercially available legal technology applications– assist the client in evaluating, selecting and implementing technologies that will bring faster and more efficient processing (e.g., SharePoint, Onit, Team Connect).
  • Apply knowledge of emerging technologies – assist the client with opportunities to leverage RPA, AI, Self Service workflows and other technology to drive efficiencies and overall cost reduction across the legal function.

 

Qualifications to apply:

• Bachelor's degree and approximately 5 - 7 years of related work experience; or master’s degree/JD and approximately 4 years of related work experience (preferred); Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Finance, Accounting or Legal Studies (undergraduate)/JD (graduate) fields of study preferred.
• Valid CPA, CIPP/E, CIPPM, CISA, CISSP, CISM, LPIP, PMP or member in good standing of the Bar in one of our 50 States
• Demonstrated ability to ide