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People Advisory Services - Immigration Consultant - EY UAE

Our People Advisory Services business (PAS) is focused on helping our clients gain a competitive people advantage in all its facets - reward management, global mobility, HR transformation, legislative compliance and much more.

PAS has five key areas: Mobility, Reward, Talent, Systems and Performance.

In Mobility, we help our clients manage the complex compliance and reporting risks inherent in deploying a globally mobile workforce and obtain the best value from this vital talent. We place great importance on providing valuable tax and immigration planning advice in order to facilitate the most cost effective and efficient operations for our clients.

Your key responsibilities:
  • Responsible for day-to-day client delivery
  • Building and maintaining relationships with clients and providing consistently high levels of client service
  • Build relationships both within the firm and externally with clients, identifying opportunities and managing expectations
  • Manage the successful delivery of immigration projects in UAE and GCC region
  • Manage the successful delivery of tax projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken
  • Adherence to Quality and Risk Management processes.
  • Coaching and motivating colleagues
  • Contribute to winning new work by proactively managing existing clients and contribute to winning new clients.
  • Key member of one of the client service groups providing full services to a client portfolio.
  • To proactively manage the financial metrics on their accounts.
Skills and attributes for success:
  • Enthusiastic and energetic; able to embrace new ways of working.
  • Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
  • Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output
  • Ability to build strong client relationships
  • Project management skills to plan and prioritise work, meet deadlines and monitor own budget
  • Attention to detail with a commitment to high quality and accuracy
  • Self starter; willing to be accountable for your decisions and output
To qualify for the role you must have:
  • Strong technical skills and keen to develop further (GCC immigration)
  • 3 years’ experience with mobility compliance work, and specifically UAE immigration compliance
  • Experience working within professional services
  • Ability to identify areas of risk, carry out an effective review and know when to refer upwards
  • A degree of flexibility to meet client /department needs and deadlines
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to multi-task
  • Computer literate including a good knowledge of excel and word
  • Client focused and commercially aware
  • Relationship management skills with ability to manage client expectations
  • Ability to solve problems creatively and pragmatical
  • Excellent communicator in range of situations both written and oral
What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

  • Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
  • Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
  • Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
  • Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  • The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
  • The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

EY | Building a better working world

  • EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
  • Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
  • Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Location: Dubai
Other locations: Primary Location Only
Salary: Competitive

Careers at EY

We’re change agents and cyber gurus. Performance improvers and problem solvers. Data scientists and growth hackers. Bot programmers and software builders. Risk managers and confidence builders. We’re more than 300,000 global perspectives ready to welcome yours.

Your bold ambition is just the beginning. Harness our global scale, our tech, our teams and our culture to realise your potential. Learn from the best, surround yourself with the curious, ask better questions to seek better answers and build a better working world.
The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

Experienced
Build a career as unique as you are. We’ll provide the global scale, personal support, inclusive culture and technology to help you grow, lead and learn.

Students
From apprenticeships, undergraduate work experience to graduate programmes, build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

What you can do here
You can ask better questions to get better answers. You can inspire change and open doors. You can learn and lead. You can be the best version of yourself by helping to build a better working world. Explore what’s possible on EY teams and across EY services.

What it’s like to work here
A better working world starts with the people at EY who are building it every day. Imagine having the freedom to customise the career you envision, in a place where an inclusive, supportive culture opens doors to rich experiences and opportunities. Discover how we’ll support and develop you.

Why EY?

At Ernst & Young Global, our purpose is Building a better working world.

In a world that’s more uncertain than ever, our purpose acts as our North Star guiding over 300,000 people — providing the context and meaning for the work we do every day. We believe a better working world is one where economic growth is sustainable and inclusive. We work continuously to improve the quality of all our services, investing in our people and innovation. And we’re proud to work with others – from our clients to wider stakeholders – to use our knowledge, skills and experience to create long term value and positive change for our clients, people and society.

Here are just a few reasons you might consider joining us to help fulfil our purpose of building a better working world:

  • We bring diverse ideas, backgrounds and mindsets together
    Ideas aren’t bound by borders, and neither are we. We know that by bringing together different perspectives, insights and experiences, we’ll create a more inclusive environment for EY people.
  • We’re embracing change in everything we do
    That’s why we’ve established a Global Innovation team led by Jeff Wong, our Global Chief Innovation Officer. The team is focused on understanding the external forces changing our world and how to do things differently in 6 months, 3 years, 10 years — and beyond.
  • Investing in technology
    Today, more than 44,000 people with technology backgrounds work throughout EY. We’re market-leaders in Robotics Process Automation and in Document Intelligence. We have provided ground-breaking blockchain projects for clients from helping run cities to tokenising wine. We have more than 30 technology and industry alliances and more than 100 technology and innovation relationships in EY today. And we’re just getting started.
  • Personalised development
    We're investing in your growth and development in unique ways, like the free, fully accredited EY Tech MBA by Hult International Business School. The first organisation to offer an entirely virtual MBA for free, for all EY people. With its focus on technology, leadership and business skills, you can build the transformative mindsets and tech skillsets we all need to thrive.
Additional Requirements
  • 3 years’ experience
  • Relationship management skills

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