Job Description & Summary

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 will have the chance to work on a variety of assignments, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are encouraged to ask questions, take initiative, and produce quality work that adds value for our clients and contributes to our team’s success. During your time at the Firm, you start to establish your personal brand, paving the way 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:

● Work side by side with experts in various areas of law such as Banking and Finance; Corporate; Disputes Resolution and Commercial Litigation; Employment; Mergers and Acquisitions to provide clients with well-rounded tailored advice backed up by sound legal expertise;

● Be involved in legal research of laws and regulations related to clients’ businesses;

● Assist your senior colleagues in preparation of legal documents;

● Gain experience in legal analysis, reasoning, writing skills and commercial acumen.

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;

● Strong command of spoken and written Azerbaijani, English (Russian will be an advantage);

● 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;

● Proficient knowledge of MS Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point);

● Strong analytic and good problem structuring skills;

● Highly resourceful team-player as well as having ability to work independently.