Kumkum Mohanty
Bangalore
Summary
A seasoned Legal and Contract Management with experience in multiple jurisdictions. Demonstrates effectiveness in diverse working environments by applying knowledge of various legal systems and cultures.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2023 - Current
- Provides strategic risk management and contracting support to identify risk and propose risk mitigation strategies that may arise throughout the engagement lifecycle.
- Conduct risk reviews and participate in risk consultations with internal counterparts and business stakeholders to evaluate risk indicators and provide risk guidance.
- Ensure compliance with contracting requirements by aligning processes with organizational policies, regulatory standards and industry best practices.
- Collaborates with various groups including sales and delivery, legal, confidentiality & security and finance to ensure successful deal closures and support.
- Manages quality and delivery excellence throughout engagement lifecycles.
- Part of several process improvement initiatives for the team.
Associate Manager
Accenture Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2015 - 12.2022
- Drafted/reviewed RFPs, SOWs, Change Requests, Amendments, Termination Letters/contract closeout, Data transfer Agreements/EUMCs.
- Finalized (staffing, commercials – rate cards and margins, FX rate mechanisms, COLA and other provisions in coordination with Finance teams); progressed it to the final stage for the Client Account Lead, Legal Account Lead, MD and Commercial Director to finalize with Client(s).
- Negotiated with client basis service lines & towers – scope, staffing, payment terms, subcontractors and employee/consultant/contractor travel policies.
- Reviewed non-legally binding agreements on a frequent basis and updated Client Account Leads with the progress, flag commercial related risks pertaining to nonpayment, invoicing and penalties.
- Assisted project teams with full contractual support during operations and service audits (including internal quality audits and external/client audits across service locations and providing in depth information on project status w.r.t compliance including local and global regulatory requirements) and processes.
- Worked with a global team of ~750 team members across multiple locations (includes Leadership – MDs, Commercial Directors, Country Controllership, Quality Directors; Operations Account Leads, Client Account Leads, Delivery Leads, IT and Senior Management, Solution Architects, In-house and external Counsels and Global Leadership.
- CM Process Lead/Ownership of CM processes - Prepared contract awareness presentations (PowerPoint) and conducted sessions across delivery centers (Global Internal/External Stakeholders - Finance, Operations, Project Managers and Delivery Team including Leadership – Commercial Directors and Managing Directors), answered contractual queries, contract overview, R&I, Deliverables & Obligations, document CM processes with process flows, summarization of contractual provisions, assisted team members with process related queries, template preparations.
- Successfully introduced multiple reporting dashboards for the Leadership and Management Level Review committee, covering contract overview on open risks and issues, mitigating actions, identifying owners, maintaining opportunity pipeline, true-up and baselining status, CDP etc.
- Involved in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to assess non-compliance of contractual obligations and deliverables (both, Client(s) and Accenture), Wrongful Payments, potential frauds, ASOC cases, incident management and information cascade.
- Conducted trainings on CM processes, compliance, policies, tools and assist in expectation management.
- Involved in occasional Recruitment drives of Contract Managers for India location (profile screening, interviews and reporting to Legal Head India and HR)
- Widely appreciated by Client stakeholders as a competent counterpart.
- Awarded as “Business Operator” by Local Service Center.
- Career Counsellor for 7 Contract Managers.
Professional I (Assistant Manager)
Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
08.2011 - 12.2014
- Managed client contracts & providing business advice to management teams responsible for the performance of client contract.
- Identified issues & risks in existing contracts and striving to minimizing risks to CSC.
- Participated in resolution of disputes/issues affecting business & contractual relationships with client.
- Imparting contract education to account teams through contract briefing on important contractual terms & conditions.
- Reviewed SOWs, proposals & new project scope & managed client change control process.
- Advised on and monitor contractual/delivery obligations & ensured end to end obligation management (timely completion of all obligations).
- Ensured that export compliance, data protection and other relevant regulations and legislation are followed, with adequate support from other internal teams.
- Interfaced with the Project Management Office to ensure projects and proposals for new services are contractually compliant with the current contract as well as CSC objectives; reviews and makes changes to proposal documents, as required.
- Travelled to client site in Denmark, UK and Hong Kong for high integration into the account, to better understand the responsibilities of onsite Commercial Manager.
- Mentor Program – Mentored colleagues and new hires in various contractual activities.
- Promoted to Assistant Manager (post organizational realignment it is Professional 1).
- Received accolades for consistent performance.
Legal Associate
Clutch Group LLC.
Bangalore
05.2010 - 08.2011
- Member of a team of legal professionals engaged in outsourced E-discovery, document review, contract management, legal research projects for multinational clients including financial institutions and international law firms.
- Contract Management: Abstraction and summarizing clauses of Software licensing agreements, master service agreements, click wrap agreements, NDA’s for leading anti-virus service provider and contract abstraction project for major U.S. Investment bank.
- Intellectual Property Management: Conducted search of existing marks in USPTO database and other jurisdictions.
- Comprehensive search of existing trade marks on client preferred database and on search engines like Google for an Investment Bank.
- Due Diligence: Assisted leading compliance firm in their due – diligence assignment by examining entities and individuals and classifying them whether an entity is high risk and individuals as Politically Exposed Personal.
- E-Discovery: As a member of e-discovery team reviewed documents for cases involving patent infringement, securities law violation.
- Quality Control and Training: Member of quality control team for due diligence project and trademarks search assignments to meet client requirement and frequently conducted training sessions for new hires to conduct trademarks searches.
Jr. Associate
Goals Law Firm
Bhubaneswar
07.2008 - 04.2010
- Member of a team of legal professionals engaged in outsourced E-discovery, document review, contract management, legal research projects for multinational clients including financial institutions and international law firms.
- Assisted senior advocates in firm on projects which involved drafting pleadings, deeds, memorandum of understanding for companies, various applications, including Writ Petitions in the High court.
- Worked on different litigation projects including document review and legal research.
Intern
Law Office of Suryakanta Sanganeria
09.2007 - 10.2007
- Assisted senior advocate in his litigation and arbitration side of practice and also accompanied him during court visits.
Intern
Law Office of Ramakanta Mohanty
03.2007 - 08.2007
- Assisted senior advocate by taking dictation, maintain court diary, review court files and documents.
Education
B.A.L. LLB (Hons.) - Law
Utkal University
Orissa, India01.2008
Skills
- Contract management expertise
- Contract lifecycle management
- Risk management
- Contract drafting
- Stakeholder engagement
- Process improvement
Extracurricular Activities
Trained Odissi (Indian Regional Dance) dancer and choreographer Active member of CSR activities
References
Can be provided at request.
Professional Development
- Alternative dispute resolution with emphasis on settlement through permanent and continuous Lok Adalats, 11/01/03, Orissa State Legal Service Authority
- Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights, Indian Law Institute, Delhi
Timeline
Manager
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current
Associate Manager
Accenture Solutions India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 12.2022
Professional I (Assistant Manager)
Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2011 - 12.2014
Legal Associate
Clutch Group LLC.
05.2010 - 08.2011
Jr. Associate
Goals Law Firm
07.2008 - 04.2010
Intern
Law Office of Suryakanta Sanganeria
09.2007 - 10.2007
Intern
Law Office of Ramakanta Mohanty
03.2007 - 08.2007
B.A.L. LLB (Hons.) - Law
Utkal University
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