<p>Robert Half is partnering with a global company in the <strong>Greater Seattle Area </strong>to identify a Corporate Counsel who is ready to IMMEDIATELY jump in to assist and possibly join their team. This position is contract with potential for extension/conversion into a permanent role.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Location</strong>: Greater Seattle Area</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Duration</strong>: 4+months, with strong potential for extension</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Schedule:</strong> M-F, 8am-5pm</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Responsibilities:</strong> </p><ul><li>Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including NDAs, licensing agreements, and employment contracts.</li><li>Manage the full lifecycle of contracts, from initiation to execution, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal standards.</li><li>Provide strategic legal advice on corporate matters, partnering with internal stakeholders such as sales, supply chain, and finance teams.</li><li>Collaborate with external vendors and legal counsel to support business operations and resolve legal issues.</li><li>Oversee and advise on global contracts, including international transactions with subsidiaries across multiple jurisdictions.</li><li>Conduct risk assessments and deliver practical, business-focused solutions in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Support mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate governance activities as needed.</li></ul>
RESPONSIBILITIES <br>Financial Reconciliation & Reporting<br>• Validate that all inventory related transactions (receipts, issues, transfers, adjustments, scrap, returns) are accurately recorded in Parity (inventory system) by the Operations team daily.<br>• Post Inventory transactions in Great Plains (accounting system)<br>• Reconcile inventory between GP and Parity<br>• Reconcile outside warehouse inventory to GP. <br>• Process inventory transactions for sales from outside warehouses to move finished goods from PB to PFFI within GP to support sales order fulfillment.<br>• Investigate and resolve discrepancies related to inventory quantities, units of measure, and transaction timing.<br>• Validate monthly transactions in financial reporting systems. <br>Transaction Validation & Compliance<br>• Review transactions entered by operations, procurement, and warehouse teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies.<br>• Identify incorrect or missing transactions and follow up with responsible teams to correct them.<br>• Monitor open POs, unmatched receipts, and unposted transactions to ensure timely resolution.<br>• Validate BOM accuracy, production reporting, and WIP movements as needed.<br>Process Monitoring & Issue Resolution<br>• Track recurring errors or process gaps and escalate systemic issues to management.<br>• Collaborate with cross functional teams to correct root causes of inventory inaccuracies.<br>• Support cycle count and physical inventory processes by validating results and ensuring proper adjustments are recorded.<br>• Maintain documentation of reconciliation procedures and transaction workflows.<br>• Maintain standardized reports and dashboards for monitoring inventory accuracy<br><br>Most important keys: <br>• Bachelors is a must <br>• Needs to be a thinker, who is willing to be trained<br>• Heavy reconciliations of data between different systems and resolving discrepancies with operating and accounting teams (standard month end, journal entries, etc)<br>• 1+ years experience would be ideal, open to college grad at lower comp<br>• Communicating issues to leadership and operations (corporate and onsite) and begin able to identify them- will need to be meticulous and detail oriented- great communicator to leadership at the plant onsite with them<br>• Training included<br>• Willing to evolve into an accounting role<br>• Software- Great Plains (Accounting System), and Parity (Inventory System)