Description:
The Opportunity:Are you passionate about combining your government contracts compliance expertise with big picture business thinking to empower innovation, drive critical missions, and deliver enduring growth and value? At Booz Allen, you'll join a team of experienced professionals motivated to excel and realize values-driven change for our clients, colleagues, and communities. We bring bold thinking to complex challenges across analytics and artificial intelligence, cyber, digital solutions, engineering, and consulting, and with industries ranging from defense to health, energy to international development.
As a member of our Government Contracts Compliance Team and reporting to the Government Contractor Compliance and Competition (GCC) Lead, you'll help propel our forward-thinking and purpose driven GCC team as we advance our clients' missions. You'll anticipate business needs and develop practical solutions with agility and action. You'll establish trusted partnerships across the firm and collaborate with fellow members of the Legal, Ethics, and Compliance team to protect and advance the company while navigating the complex, multifaceted, and often novel legal and compliance risks we face today.
On our team you will serve as a counsel for the Government Contracts and Competition compliance programs. In this role, you will help with maintaining and enhancing the foundational elements of the programs, including policies, processes, training, and monitoring, as well as providing subject matter expertise to support internal investigations and M&A due diligence and integration. You will closely coordinate with sector-aligned government contracts attorneys to leverage business priorities and areas of transactional risk into best-of-breed compliance controls and enhancements. You'll have the opportunity to lead high-visibility, high-impact initiatives and advise the firm's senior leaders and employees firmwide on compliance risks and mitigation measures in your area of expertise. Guided by Booz Allen's purpose and values, together we'll anticipate and proactively prepare for the issues we'll encounter tomorrow.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:
- 4+ years of experience practicing law in a law firm, corporate, or government environment
- Experience with government contracts compliance, including FAR, DFARS, and federal procurement statutes and regulations
- Experience partnering closely with business leaders to develop comprehensive solutions to problems, build relationships, and act as a trusted advisor
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and process owners to design and implement practical enhancements to address key risk areas and provide integrated and long-lasting solutions
- Ability to listen actively and ensure that the right questions are being asked and answered
- Ability to translate legalese or regulations into succinct, clear, and workable business solutions
- Ability to execute against clear goals, priorities, and success metrics or KPIs, manage against program plans, and work under pressure in a dynamic environment
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- J.D. degree
- Active bar admission with any U.S. state bar
Nice if You Have:
- Experience with contract negotiation, including federal or non-federal
- Experience with antitrust or competition compliance in a professional services firm
- Experience with government contract compliance requirements in a professional services firm
- Experience or interest supporting M&A due diligence or post-merger integration with respect to evaluating and implementing compliance programs, policies, and procedures
- Experience designing, implementing, executing, and enhancing compliance programs or sub-programs in areas such as gifts and business courtesies, anti-kickback, post-government employment restrictions, organizational and personal conflicts of interest, and competition and antitrust
- Experience leading or managing program assessments and after actions, as well as assisting in design and implementation of comprehensive training and awareness initiatives
- Experience developing key risk indicators, compliance monitoring activities, and leveraging data-driven insights to evaluate the impact of compliance initiatives
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
