Contract Analyst

About the Company:

FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. With more than 4,600 employees located in 28 countries, FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities. The Company generated $1.81 billion in revenues during fiscal year 2016.

FTI Consulting continually strives to offer employees and eligible dependents, including domestic partners and eligible domestic partner children, a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Please click here for more information.

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About Technology:

Our Technology practice helps clients manage the risk and cost of e-discovery. From forensic data collection to fully managed document review services we collaborate with our clients to deliver strategic solutions tailored to their unique legal requirements. With keen focus on the productivity and defensibility of document review, clients rely on our comprehensive portfolio of software, services expertise and to address matters ranging from internal investigations to large-scale litigation with global e-discovery requirements.

If you are interested in becoming part of a fast growing company and helping shape its future, read on.

About the Opportunity:

Our clients have questions about their contracts. Our Contract Analysts read and review contracts in a technology platform, extracting relevant contract language/information and then analyzing that language/information to answer our clients’ questions.

Sometimes these questions are straight forward. What type of contract is it? Is it an amendment to another contract? When does it expire? The questions almost always get more complex. For example:

1)     Notice/Consent: Does our client need to give notice or seek consent of the counterparty to the contract for a triggering event (e.g., a pending merger or company acquisition)?

2)     Compliance: Do contracts need to be amended to add in company or legally required compliance language (e.g., Data Privacy or Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) program)?

3)     Risk: Do contracts conform to our client’s risk standards (e.g., limitation of liability thresholds and exceptions)?

4)     Obligations: What are our client’s key rights and obligations under the contract and when do they have to be performed?

The questions change from one project to the next. While the contract types are usually commercial and vendor documents like Service Agreements and Supply Agreements, they will really range in complexity. Everything from short Non-Disclosure Agreements and Order Forms to 100+ page License Agreements and Financing Agreements. Regardless, every project gives an opportunity for our Contract Analysts to work on challenging, time-sensitive and high-profile projects for global financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. An opportunity to complete challenging analysis that goes well beyond issue spotting from an e-Discovery project.

We are looking to expand our pool of qualified Contract Analysts for our Contract Solutions projects.  Contract Analysts work on a per-project basis and work is performed at the direction of attorneys who provide briefing materials, along with substantive training and support to the Contract Analysts. Contract Analysts will be members of a team that also includes project managers and contract subject matter experts. These are work from home opportunities.

The Contract Analyst role requires the following:

·        Bachelor’s degree

·        Experience reviewing and analyzing contracts; with a good understanding of contract structure, terminology and terms

·        Attention to detail, able to identify small nuances in contract language

·        Critical thinking / logical reasoning skills, able to interpret ambiguous and confusing contract language

·        Ability to quickly and accurately make decisions, entering data for large volumes of contracts, while also identifying where contract language presents new issues that need to be escalated to senior team members for clarification

·        Ability to escalate questions about contracts you review in a way that is clear, to the point, and isolates the issue at hand

·        Experience and comfort working in Microsoft Excel, plus comfortable working in an online review tool

The following are not required for the role (please apply even if you don’t have them) but are desirable:

·        Experience working in-house at a corporation

·        Experience drafting and negotiating contracts (In-house and/or law firm)

·        Experience with Relativity, the platform that we use

·       Experience working in contract review and artificial intelligence tools like Heretik, Kira, eBrevia, Luminance or DocuSign Insights

·        A law degree (Juris Doctor or LLM) or Paralegal certification

·        Data science degree, background or experience

·        Fluency in a foreign language

Position Classification: Non-Exempt

FTI Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer