You will be based in our Mumbai or Hong Kong office as part of the litigation & investigations group, reporting to the deputy general counsel for the Asia region. 

You’ll support the firm on global litigation, investigations and related matters including crisis management. You’ll work closely with senior firm and legal colleagues including communications, risk, compliance, IT, insurance and finance. 

The legal department is a diverse and dynamic team within our firm, which provides comprehensive legal services and broad risk management support to our firm’s leadership, consultants and support staff throughout the world.

DUTIES

You will manage a broad range of complex litigation matters, advising and counseling internal clients on litigation risk. You will provide counsel to consultants on a variety of legal issues related to litigation and investigations, including advice about the pros/cons of pursuing affirmative legal proceedings.

In this role, you will manage complex litigation matters including government investigations. This may involve overseeing outside counsel, developing budget and overall strategy, scoping internal fact-finding, ensuring compliance with document discovery obligations and preparing witnesses for external interviews and depositions.

You’ll also manage interactions with regulators and be responsible for driving internal investigations including disciplinary matters. You’ll advise internal clients on litigation risks and provide counsel on potential or threatened litigation, collaborating with the communications team on internal and external responses to litigation and investigative matters. 

You’ll identify process improvements for investigations and help develop resources and tools that help drive consistent implementation of our global investigations process to ensure timely and appropriate investigation management and reporting. You will partner with communications on internal and external responses to litigation and investigative matters. You will work closely with risk, IT, compliance and human resources colleagues to identify trends, flag developing risks and develop and implement appropriate mitigation plans. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent academic credentials
• 8+ years of experience with an international law firm; in-house and/or regulatory experience with a focus on litigation
• Deep crisis management and litigation experience
• Government, prosecutorial experience and/or prior in-house experience is a plus
• Impeccable business judgment and ethics
• Self-starter with the ability to drive tasks and projects to completion
• Ability to develop relationships and network within and outside the company
• Ability to build and keep relationships with top outside legal advisors
• Enjoys working in a challenging, fast-paced, dynamic professional services environment
• Team player, highly collaborative, with a flexible work style
• Ability and confidence to work with people across geographies
• Excellent written and oral English communications skills

You will be based in one of our offices in Chennai, Gurugram, Montevideo, Prague, or San Jose as part of the Supplier Risk team within Optimize, S7Clear’s global procurement function that delivers distinctive, positive and productive experiences through various services ranging from travel, events, real estate, sourcing, technology, and purchasing.

The Supplier Risk team leads and oversees the firm’s global supplier risk management program. You will report to the Director of Supplier Risk and work cross-functionally with key stakeholders including Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance and IT as you support, shape and deliver on the firm’s supplier cybersecurity risk initiatives.

DUTIES

You will be responsible for mitigating supplier cybersecurity risks in the firm’s supplier onboarding process and across its supply base. You will ensure the robustness and efficiency of cyber controls in our end-to-end procurement lifecycle, while being able to balance cybersecurity requirements with supplier risk and business objectives.  

You will work closely with the One Firm Cybersecurity (OFCS) team to streamline and seamlessly integrate cyber assessments into our supplier onboarding process. You will deliver on and represent Optimize supplier cybersecurity priorities across the firm. You will assess and analyze supplier data and cybersecurity risks across our procurement processes.  

You will report on security compliance for suppliers, incidents, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You will proactively identify gaps and improvement opportunities and collaborate with other teams to problem solve viable solutions. You will propose functional process changes, controls and compliance measures as needed. You will gain alignment across teams and lead/support the implementation of agreed recommendations on behalf of the procurement team.   

You will foster and champion a “risk first” culture and create awareness across the firm on supplier cybersecurity risk topics. You will build rapport and develop trust-based relationships with key stakeholders and other risk teams that work on supplier and cybersecurity issues. You will be a subject matter expert and advise colleagues on cyber risk topics as they relate to supplier and procurement processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s/university degree required 
• 7+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, information security or related field  
• Deep knowledge of cybersecurity policies, standards and best practices  
• Experience in third-party risk management and/or procurement processes
• Understanding of information security testing methods, including vulnerability assessments and penetration testing 
• Experience implementing cyber processes and controls, including ongoing improvement opportunities 
• Technical understanding of the cybersecurity landscape and working knowledge of common information security controls, guidelines and standards (e.g., ISO27001, OWASP, SOC 2, NIST) 
• Project and process management skills, with expertise prioritizing and managing multiple projects/tasks simultaneously 
• Demonstrated experience in developing documents and presenting complex information to colleagues at all levels 
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to achieve collaboration and alignment 
• Global experience in a professional services or consulting environment a plus

You will be based in one of our US or European offices as part of our global sourcing team reporting to the director of services procurement and payment strategy.  

You will collaborate closely with category leaders/directors and senior business partners/leaders across the firm to understand their business priorities and establish sourcing strategies that will enable their success. 

In this role, you will get a broad understanding of S7Clear’s overall business, gain visibility and understanding across the organization, and be responsible for leading the sourcing efforts for all categories, with a specific focus and expertise on technology. This role is critical to helping elevate the role of sourcing globally. 

DUTIES

You will lead a sourcing transformation – focused on enhancing our sourcing capabilities globally, supporting our category strategies, integrating sustainable and responsible buying practices, developing the capabilities of colleagues, and building a seamless end-to-end source-to-pay processes and systems.

You will initially lead a global team of 10+ indirect sourcing professionals across multiple regions for all in scope categories. During the transformation, you will evaluate the appropriate organization structure and roles/responsibilities; team size; outsourcing/insourcing model; and overall talent strategy (sourcing of talent, capability building, career planning). Your team will work with category management to determine and implement opportunities to reduce costs and counter inflationary pressures through multi-year category strategies based on market research & analysis, data collection, cost modeling, RFx strategy development, creation and management, supplier communications, negotiations, and contracting. 

You will be accountable for your team to comply with all relevant procurement policies and you will enable processes and systems to have continuous monitoring. You will shape how we approach strategic negotiations for large complex deals that have broad impact to the firm. You will ensure that a comprehensive end-to-end responsible sourcing process is developed, enabled and consistently followed.  

You will proactively develop and maintain colleague and supplier relationships in a way that delivers business results, tracks KPIs and ensures accountability while upholding S7Clear’s values. You will act as a change agent across the firm to drive a culture of procurement process efficiency and effectiveness. You will build and cultivate responsible sourcing capability; educate & partner with key leaders on its importance to accomplish strategic goals.

You will lead the development, in partnership with Risk and Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) leaders, of the firm’s responsible sourcing strategy and overall vision to comply with customer and regulatory sourcing requirements. You will advocate, drive, and sponsor the firm’s sustainable procurement, cost management/containment, risk and innovation objectives. You will champion and promote the use of diverse suppliers. You will stay current on external and internal influences that may impact the larger sourcing organization including firm / functional strategic initiatives, macroeconomic issues, industry trends, category specific etc. You will foster a culture of open thinking and collaboration.

QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree; MBA or advanced degree is preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience in category management
• Deep expertise of all in-scope categories (specifically with IT)
• Experience and maturity to establish credibility and manage a critical set of responsibilities 
• Strong strategy and thought leadership skills  
• Excellent attention to detail (including reviewing contracts) and passion for sourcing, contracting, and negotiating with suppliers
• Collaborative style and ability to develop and motivate teams in a distributed environment, provide mentorship and drive professional development of colleagues
• High energy, responsive, quality orientation and comfortable operating in a fast-paced autonomous and ambiguous environment
• Experience in negotiating software, hardware, software-as-a-service and consulting services contracts is preferred
• Excellent understanding of all functions, programs, and commodities managed, as well as sound financial principles and expense accounting
• Project planning, negotiating, organizing, documenting and problem-solving skills 
• Knowledge of business and legal implications of proposed procurement solutions

As a ‘lead’ for our equity-based arrangements you will work closely with partners/client service teams to discover and pursue these types of arrangements. You will also involve other functional leaders who have a role in shaping/approving including professionals in our Legal, Risk, Tax, and Accounting functions along with the firm’s governing body for equity-based arrangements (a group of senior partners).

S7Clear’s Equity Investments & Arrangements team is a team of commercially minded professionals who help to structure and negotiate non-standard arrangements including performance-based and equity-based arrangements. This role fits into the client facing side of our team’s mandate. We are growing in all areas of non-standard arrangements and therefore need new team members to help manage our growing equity and alternative fee related pipeline.

DUTIES

Your primary responsibility will be to drive the commercial diligence, structuring, negotiation, and execution of the Firm’s largest and most complex arrangements. They could be as small as $2M or as large as $100M+.

You will start by helping Partners/client service teams review opportunities for suitability. In many cases the preferred model will turn out to be something more traditional (fixed fees paid in cash) or something performance based (with a portion of our fees linked to deliverables or outcomes/impact). If the situation meets our minimum equity guardrails then you will direct through our Legal and Risk steps along with advising the Partners on how to achieve appropriate syndication/approval. Along the way you will be the client’s #1 contact with the Firm with respect to the equity negotiation. Once agreement is met you will then help to facilitate receipt and valuation of equity and transfer to our portfolio manager.

You will also drive more traditional commercial negotiations such as multi-year rate cards, performance arrangements and the occasional work-out/settlement.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/undergraduate degree; MBA, Law degree or other advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience structuring and negotiating complex commercial arrangements, preferably in private equity, venture capital and/or Corporate M&A along with proven execution capabilities. 
• Ability to lead investments from identification to execution and then from value creation to exits. Experience in minority stake investments is preferred
• Exceptional drive and confidence
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Expertise in structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, including business case financial modelling and due diligence across all relevant disciplines (e.g., financial, HR, legal, tax, operations, etc.
• Talented relationship builder. Ability to gain the respect of senior leadership as this role requires front facing execution with senior partners and C-suite clients
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead cross-functional teams, work with and from time-to-time advise senior firm leaders, and help build consensus
• Ability to spot issues/risks and understand how these impact commercial outcomes
• Excellent project management and problem solving skills
• Strong sense of entrepreneurship and ownership mindset, with a client service orientation
• Exemplary judgment and professionalism

You will be based in one of our North America offices as part of the Supplier Risk team within Optimize, S7Clear’s global procurement function that delivers distinctive, positive and productive experiences through various services ranging from travel, events, real estate, sourcing, technology, and purchasing. 

The Supplier Risk team leads and oversees the firm’s global supplier risk management program. You will work closely with a global cross-functional team led by the Director of Supplier Risk Strategy, to manage a global supplier onboarding program and technology. 

DUTIES

You will shape and implement approaches to deliver on Optimize’s ESG, risk, and automation strategies.

You will be responsible for managing the risk-based processes that will enable an efficient and effective end-to-end supplier onboarding program and user experience. This includes the ongoing development and implementation of S7Clear’s supplier risk framework and delivering risk programs to achieve excellence in managing supplier onboarding risk. 

You will foster strong partnership and collaborate regularly with global firm functions and risk teams including Finance, Global Social Responsibility, Compliance, Sanctions, Data Privacy/Security, Sourcing and Legal. 

You will work with Supplier Operations team to ensure effective risk management, timely risk escalations and training for ensuring governance, for overseeing that risk is being appropriately analyzed, and for raising issues and escalations to the related stakeholders, with recommendations for resolution.    

You will play a leading role in continually improving the risk management capabilities, technologies, data sources and documentation of the supplier onboarding program. You will support the development of standards, reporting and other program materials and documentation while ensuring that the supplier onboarding program processes are auditable. You will partner with the broader Supplier Risk team to foster and coach a risk first awareness culture at S7Clear. 

In addition, you will support supplier incident response, coordinating with the incident response team to ensure relationship management, prompt communication, investigation and risk mitigation. You will stay ahead of risk issues and drive special projects that address emerging risks, market developments and/or internal customer needs. You can expect to manage a broad range of interesting projects on a global level. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of professional experience out of which 5+ years spent in enterprise or third-party risk management, ideally in a global firm 
• In-depth knowledge and firsthand experience of developing risk assessment methodologies, internal controls, processes and principles related to end-to-end supplier risk management, preferably in indirect procurement 
• Superior communication & interpersonal skills, including the ability to present to a global audience on a regular basis, build and maintain highly effective and collaborative relationships
• Ability to drive change proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and inspire confidence among senior leadership 
• Demonstrated ability to learn new concepts and ideas, and to apply those concepts across multiple content areas 
• Professional, impartial, and independent attitude with a high degree of integrity 
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams covering various organizational levels  
• Strong professional computing skills, including Microsoft Office products (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) 
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a work-setting, knowing how to address and manage unpredictable outcomes 

Overview

You’ve got big plans. We have opportunities to match, and we’re committed to empowering you to become a better you, no matter what you do.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there’s no limit to the impact you can make. Let’s do this. 

S7Clear’s Finance Transformation Advisory Practice helps organizations maximize efficiencies and drive business value across the organization. The Finance function is evolving to become a business partner that supports, provides insights and challenges the business, creating value by improving the quality of decisions and ensuring that a chosen business strategy delivers the highest financial value at an acceptable level of risk. The question we, as S7Clear, want to answer is “What can we do to improve what finance brings to the organization?”

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager interested in fostering a highly visible presence in the business community in Vancouver to join S7Clear’s Finance Transformation advisory team. This role will be responsible for leveraging existing capabilities within the Management Consulting group and helping drive expansion opportunities.

This role is based out of Vancouver. It is expected that the candidate be within a commutable distance of this city or be open to relocate within a reasonable timeframe
What you will do

Service delivery:

Providing a broad range of services involving the finance function, including :

• Managing transformation projects (diagnostics, roadmap and implementation of improvement opportunities
• Improvement of business processes
• Experience one or more of the following end-to-end business process: Source (Procure) to Pay o Quote (Order) to Cash o Acquire to Retire o Project to Result (Project Accounting) o Record to Report o Plan to Perform o Treasury o Initiate to Operate
• Benchmarking and developing performance indicators
• Supporting ERP selection and implementation, automated consolidation solutions or financial and budgetary analyses
• Writing reports in French and English
• Presenting results to clients in French or English
• Assisting with change management for optimization or transformation projects
• Managing resources assigned to a project, along with corresponding budgets

Business development:

• Helping to identify and develop business relationships and new opportunities with existing clients and future prospects
• Overseeing or participating in the preparation of proposals or presentations for prospective engagements
• Developing in-depth knowledge of S7Clear products and services in order to identify client opportunities
• Participating in any technical or industry training on a local or national scale
• Presenting conferences on the future of the Finance function for S7Clear staff or clients

Practice Management:

• Contributing to performance management and/or mentoring for advisory services personnel in support of our “S7Clear for Life” strategic orientation
• Supporting work scheduling program
• Identifying and implementing opportunities to improve the quality and efficiency of our services Participating in and/or conducting internal meetings with advisory services personnel and creating practice administration initiatives

What you bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, majoring in accounting, or other accounting training. Accountancy credentials required (CPA, CA or CPA, CMA or CPA, CGA)
• 10 to 15 years of consulting experience, managing finance function transformation or process improvement projects
• Experience in management of systems implementation projects
• Experience in ERP software, including but not limited to: Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Cloud, SAP or SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics AX or D365, Workday etc.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills as well as the ability to effectively present ideas
• Experience in the Energy and Natural Resources industries is considered an asset
• Highly confident and motivated
• Skill in communicating concepts and serving clients
• Demonstrated ability to plan, execute and successfully carry out projects
• Experience preparing proposals

Overview

At S7Clear, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into an opportunity for clients and communities around the world.

The Opportunity

S7Clear is currently seeking a Service Delivery Manager to join our Global Information Technology Group, which is part of the S7Clear International organisation. This role will primarily be responsible for ensuring that the Service Management processes provide consistent interfaces between customers and service providers in the areas of incident, request, problem, configuration, knowledge, service catalog, service level, continuous improvement and change management are implemented, managed and continuously improved across the enterprise.

What you will do

The Service Delivery Manager will play a significant part in aligning business requirements, and operational expectations and reporting on service quality metrics. This encompasses planning, implementation, and ongoing efficiency in process management to identify and meet the needs of our customers.  They will be accountable for the following activities;

• Ownership of the IT service management (ITSM) processes and ensure the ongoing adherence and adoption through compliance reporting and education
• Managing the service provided by Supplier teams working with the Global Service Management Office to ensure management and governance of IT Service Management processes
• Provide ongoing input into continuously improving service management processes and implementation within ITSM tools
• Development quality metrics (Power BI) for service management processes lifecycle management, analyze data and implement quality improvements
• Run or ensure management of major incident investigations to facilitate the resolution of major incidents 24 x 7 x 365
• Act as an escalation point for all ITSM Process and Tool management activities

What you bring to the role

• Strong knowledge and experience working with Power BI is a must. Additional reporting experience is a plus.
• Experience managing service management processes, policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Knowledge in industry standards, related to areas defined in: ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, COBIT, ISO 20000, DevOps is a must
• Minimum 7+ years IT experience with 4+ years professional experience in IT Service Management
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent work experience
• Good knowledge of cloud technologies, primarily Microsoft Azure Technologies
• Experience in ITSM process governance
• Documented understanding of ITIL processes, Statements of Work (SOW), Agreements, SLA’s and KPI’sDemonstrable experience with Service Operations
• A strong understanding of IT / Business processes, challenges, and issues
• Understanding of Agile / Scrum / DevOps approach to realize business value for the customer

The Director, Global Procurement will be responsible for establishing a sourcing and procurement function within the Global Corporate Services (GCS) team at S7Clear. Core responsibilities will include analyzing the current landscape of sourcing and procurement, performing a comprehensive analysis of global spend, building relationships across a wide array of business stakeholders, and developing a procurement function in partnership with GCS and practice leadership that embraces Environmental, Social and Governance principles, delivers cost savings, eliminates waste, improves our risk and compliance posture, and improves service, quality, and collaboration with our suppliers. Over time, this role may lead and develop a team of procurement professionals. This role reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct a thorough assessment of the company’s spend on direct and indirect goods and services and identify areas for improvement.
• Assess the complete market for relevant goods and services including trends, forecasts, risks, geopolitical effects, and supplier profiling.
• Define a fully comprehensive category strategy for indirect goods and services.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and avoidance that are attributable to the P&L
• Develop working relationships with internal stakeholders to understand their sourcing and contracting needs, which they are accustomed to handling on their own.
• Lead the negotiation and development of key contracts through the effective partnering with the supplier, Legal, and the business stakeholders.
• Partner closely with internal legal, risk, governance, and privacy teams to balance sourcing and business priorities.
• Identify procurement processes and policies for alignment at the country, region, and global levels.
• Develop and implement business plans, policies, and procedures.
• Manage key strategic supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and service.
• Conduct timely reviews with suppliers to measure performance against contractual standards and performance expectations.
• Develop risk management strategies relating to critical vendors including alternative sourcing options and product/service availability.
• Collaborate with other departments and Milliman practices to prioritize procurement needs.
• Assist executives in defining organizational goals and strategic plans.
• Implement strategies to mature our supplier diversity and sustainability efforts.
• Develop metrics and reporting to share with the business to highlight the value provided by the function.
• Over time, direct and manage component purchasing specialists and procurement specialists.
• Over time, develop a strategy for contract management and supplier relationship management.
• Advising Milliman practices on how to work with client procurement functions.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, finance, supply management, or other related discipline with minimum 15 years of procurement experience
• The ideal candidate must have previous experience in national and international procurement / sourcing activities with a record of leading change and cost reduction in cross-cultural environments.
• Experience creating and/or growing, developing, and coaching a team of sourcing and procurement professionals.
• The ideal candidate must have demonstrated history of successfully collaborating with multiple internal stakeholders who possess a high degree of autonomy.
• Must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of purchasing practices, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge of IT systems, contract management, strategic sourcing practices and software vendor licensing models
• Ability to analyze unstructured or imperfect data related to spend and identify insights and opportunities to pursue.
• Must have a passion for managing and developing employees in alignment with company values.
• Must have excellent analytical and financial acumen including cost modeling, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships with team members and suppliers.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:

• Experience in a professional service firm environment
• Experience incorporating ESG into the supplier base.
• Industry certification in the procurement space such as Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Certified Professional in Supplier Diversity (CPSD), Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) qualification, or APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) is a plus.

COMPENSATION:

The salary range is $160,000 to $275,000, depending on relevant factors, including but not limited to education, work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc. This role is based out of the S7Clear’s office, but candidates can work remotely anywhere in the US.