Legal Operations MENAP

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. You use your ability to work independently, your in-depth knowledge, and significant experience in a specialty area to apply legal knowledge in the practice area and propose legal solutions and alternatives to in-house counsel.

How you will contribute

Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s legal leader or counsel, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus. In this role, you provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, region and global stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed. You will operate systems and technologies relevant to the area of support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience in a legal specialty area to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

• Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
• Working independently and coping with stressful situations and deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving, project management, and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Technology and Systems Savvy; ability to operate and manage systems and technologies relevant to particular job

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Process outside counsel legal invoices. Understand direct and indirect tax implications for outside counsel legal invoices for the countries/regions that company does business
• Respond to law firm and vendor queries regarding invoices and payments and act as primary contact for all invoicing issues with internal colleagues
• Monitor and reconcile invoices between e-billing and SAP systems
• Monitor and audit invoices to ensure timely processing and in accordance with Outside Counsel Billing Guidelines
• Analyze rejections and/or deductions, resolve issues, coordinate and process revisions or adjustments
• Assist with internal forecasts, financial planning and potential budget risks to ensure the department meets their strategic financial targets
• Develop outside counsel reports for the regions and business units
• Support regularly scheduled monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements
• Develop understanding of Mondelez International’s database reporting capabilities, including an understanding of the metrics Mondelez International possesses or can develop that reflect Legal spending
• Analyze and measure the law firm’s performance against budgets, staffing models, budget and staff plans, maintain metrics scorecard and develop strategies and recommendations
• Manage the accrual process, reconciliation and communication with the firms
• Matter and Vendor Management
• Act as the primary contact for all matter management issues with internal stakeholders, law firms and vendors
• Project management, development of policies and procedures, define reporting requirements, process improvements, as well as end-user training and enhance the global team’s operational effectiveness and support.
• Support the Legal team with basic legal work such as templates, correspondence preparation and information consolidation.

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

Job specific requirements:

• 0-2 Years of experience in multinational and/or Law Firm environment.
• Ability to interact with all levels in the organization
• Strong written communication and presentation skills
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (Macros, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP)

Work schedule:

Full-Time

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz International in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan serves the Middle East and Africa markets as well as Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, we have more than 2600 employees working across seven plants and six commercial offices; we make, bake, sell and deliver our products to customers. We are market leaders in key snacking categories with iconic global and local brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, Milka, Oreo and belVita biscuits, Barni Cakes,Tang powdered beverage, Chiclets and Trident gum and Halls candy. 

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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