Employment:
Full Time
Tax & Legal Services – Legal – Immigration – Administrative Assistant (Associate)
Line of Service
Tax
Specialism
Immigration
Management Level
Associate
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Immigration, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients adopt a more strategic approach to managing their immigration matters.
You will manage a high-volume team in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment that will carefully and efficiently manage the end to end process of various non-immigrant (temporary) and immigrant (permanent residence) visas. You will also provide strategic advice and counsel to both employers and employees to help our clients gain maximum value on their immigration and mobility strategies.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As an Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
– Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
– Share and collaborate effectively with others.
– Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
– Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
– Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
– Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
– Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner – verbally and in the materials I produce.
– Build and maintain an internal and external network.
– Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
– Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Who we are
We are part of the largest global legal network and have over 3,500 lawyers and legal professionals in over 90 countries (over 170 countries including immigration law and entity governance & compliance). Our Middle East Legal Network continues to rapidly grow.
Our lawyers and legal professionals work alongside the wider PwC, providing a truly joined up client facing service offering. Our team often works with Tax, Structuring, Consulting and Risk Assurance Services and other professionals from within PwC to deliver a unique, comprehensive and integrated service to our clients.
We are a thriving business across the Middle East with a regional hub in Dubai, looking to expand further.
The Immigration practice provides advisory and compliance services to clients in relation to immigration and provides a unique opportunity to broaden your own skills and be at the cutting edge of legal services. We also look to embrace technology in everything we do.
About the role
We are looking for an GRO with ideally 8 years’ experience and a Middle East Immigration background is desirable, to join the team and to help support its continued expansion.
Our new GRO will be fully responsible to liaison with Government Ministries and other Government Entities and the Immigration team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We expect those in this role will enjoy an interesting, varied and challenging workload. The day-to-day work will involve being the main point of contact within all administrative/HR related tasks for our client employees, issuing all employees related documentations including LoIs, ERE Visas, Iqama and Labor Licenses Cards, dealing with the various government authorities (such as GOSI, GAZT, MOL, SAGIA, COC) as well as submitting on-line administrative forms/requests. In addition to the above, the GRO will be responsible for upkeep of critical government portals such as HRSD, GOSI, Muqeem, Qiwa, Mudad etc.
Requirements
The following skills are required for this role:
Essential skills:
– Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English; clear, articulate and confident in written and verbal communication skills
– Excellent research and analytical skills
– Good relationship building and interpersonal skills
– Ability to work in a process-driven environment
– Ability to work as a team
– Problem solving skills
– Excellent client/customer service
– A high level of computer literacy, including a good working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and legal databases/caseworking tools
– Well organised and able to deal with large amounts of information
– Excellent attention to detail
– Primarily a team player but also able to complete specific tasks under own initiative
– Ability to adapt and be flexible
– Highly driven and proactive
– Respect for confidential information
The skills we look for in our employees
Our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, “The PwC Professional”.
The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes: whole leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.
As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we’re open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.
We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.
PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.
We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.
If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.
Source: Job Posting - gulftalent.com
