Опытный юридический консультант в отделе налогов и права

At PwC, our people in legal services offer comprehensive legal solutions and advice to internal stakeholders and clients, maintaining compliance with regulations and minimising legal risks. These individuals provide strategic guidance and support across various industries. In legal specialties at PwC, you will focus on legal support and advice across specific areas of law, confirming compliance and mitigating legal risks for the organisation. Your work will involve a wide range of specific legal matters and collaborate with different teams to drive business objectives.
Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  

The role:
The successful candidate will:

• Build and maintain productive working relationships with clients. Establish credibility, influence where appropriate and provide excellent client service;
• Researching and analyzing the law on complex issues and writing briefs for submission to a supervising lawyer in the firm;
• Analyzing and summarizing complicated legal documents, including contracts, and suggesting alterations to those documents;
• Conducting legal research in legislation and case law;
• Draft contracts, legal memorandums, papers, reports, presentations etc.
• Prepare fee matter estimates and quotations;
• Performing due diligence in legal matters;
• Provide legal advice on respective areas of civil law;Participate in client’s meetings, provide the substantive input and draft the preliminary opinions;
• Help in preparing various legal documents;
• Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the project;
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen;
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues;
• Ensure you are adhering to compliance matters;
• Acquire skills and knowledge in legislation research, legal analysis and legal writing skills;
• Develop your technical skills on a daily basis by supporting projects and by interaction with our professional team;
• Work on developing internal relationships and your PwC brand.
  

What we are looking for:

• A top graduate degree with major in Law;
• An LL.M. degree from overseas (preferably US or leading European) University would be an advantage;
• Attorney, member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association is an advantage;
• 1 to 3 years of professional experience from a leading law firms as a practicing (consulting) lawyer; Excellent research, drafting and writing skills. A record of undertaking research and writing of legal memorandums, papers, reports, presentations will be an added advantage;
• Ability to write simply as part of outreach and advocacy, while also skilled at serious research-based writing;
• Ability to formulate, consider and select the most appropriate solutions;
• Strong command of spoken and written Azerbaijani, English (Russian will be an advantage);
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point);
• Strong analytic and good problem structuring skills;
• Strong communication and negotiation skills;
• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be effective independently;
• Willingness to undertake new and challenging tasks;
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion;
• Ability to demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response.