Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Tax
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
M&A Legal
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career within Legal Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients adopt a more strategic approach to global entity governance across their organisations. We help our clients and their legal entities with the incorporation of new companies, on going compliance with local legislation, and restructuring of their global businesses to manage governance and compliance risks.
Our team specialises in providing legal advice across all of our clients disciplines. You’ll help provide legal support to a wide array of specialty areas from cyber security and technology to banking and intellectual property.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
– Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
– Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
– Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
– Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
– Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
– Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
– Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
– Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
– Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
– Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Role
We are looking for one Corporate Lawyer with extensive experience of working on Energy & Infrastructure Projects in the MENA Region and in particular in the KSA and GCC markets to join our existing Energy practice and be based in the KSA. We are primarily looking for senior lawyers based in the KSA but will also consider senior lawyers based in other GCC jurisdictions such as the UAE and Qatar who would be willing to consider making a move to the KSA.
The role will involve
– Working on Energy & Infrastructure Projects in the KSA , the GCC and the wider MENA Region;
– Working in a multi-disciplinary environment;
– Leading the execution of projects in the Energy & Infrastructure Sectors in the KSA and the wider MENA Region including projects in the Oil & Gas and Power & Water Industries;
– Training and coaching junior members of the team; and
– Supporting with business development initiatives.
Requirements
We are interested in individuals who have the following experience and attributes:
– Minimum of 6 years experience of working on Energy & Infrastructure Projects for a leading International Law Firm with offices in the MENA Region with a particular emphasis on projects in the GCC;
– Proven track Record of Working on Energy & Infrastructure Projects including Projects in the Power & Water and Oil & Gas Industries in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar;
– Extensive knowledge of working on EPC and O&M Documentation required;
– Experience of Working on Project Finance/ Loan Documentation on Energy & Infrastructure Projects in the MENA Region preferred;
– Previous experience of working on M&A and corporate restructuring projects in the Energy Sector in the MENA Region preferred;
– Arabic language skills preferred including fluency in spoken Arabic; and
– Ability to work independently and within a collaborative team setting whilst also working efficiently and meeting deal/project related deadlines.
At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.
We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.
PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.
We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.
If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.
Source: Job Posting - gulftalent.com
