Employment:
Full Time
Line of Service
Tax
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Immigration
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
PwC Legal Middle East
PwC Legal Middle East is a multiple award-winning regional team of over 50 lawyers and legal professionals working across Corporate & Commercial (particularly M&A and Restructuring), Financial Services & FinTech, Projects, Employment, Immigration, Corporate Governance, Entity Incorporations & Compliance and NewLaw. Globally, we are part of the largest legal network in the world and we have over 3,500 lawyers in over 100 countries.
Our lawyers and legal professionals work alongside the PwC’s service lines, providing a truly integrated “one stop shop” service offering alongside Tax, Deals, Consulting and Assurance Services. We look to embrace technology in everything we do.
Our Immigration team provides transactional and advisory support to businesses that are setting up or expanding in the region, and have a need to hire, retain and manage an expatriate workforce. Our centre of excellence in Dubai coordinates support throughout the Middle East and parts of North Africa, which allows us to quickly mobilise our industry specialists, whenever and wherever needed.
PwC Legal Middle East’s employees
Our employees must be entrepreneurial and have a collaborative mindset to succeed in a truly different legal environment to a traditional law firm.
Technical excellence is a given and local knowledge is required. We look for people with business acumen, a global mindset and those who enjoy building relationships across PwC and our clients across the Middle East region and globally.
Our employees work closely with other lawyers and PwC professionals at all levels and across various jurisdictions. Our senior employees play an important role in the development of junior employees.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our existing team of Immigration professionals.
The role will involve:
– Providing regional immigration advice pertaining to new entity set ups, mergers and acquisitions, expansion planning, organisational health checks/audits, etc
– Working in a multi-disciplinary environment with other PwC professionals
– Taking a lead on business development including RFPs, client pitches and strategic delivery models
– Overseeing transition and onboarding of new engagements and projects
– Training and coaching junior members of the team
– Driving and developing business development initiatives
– Developing and delivering thought leadership via seminars/webinars, roundtable discussions etc
Requirements
We are interested in individuals who have the following experience and attributes:
– At least 10+ years of experience in the immigration/mobility space, with at least 3+ Middle East experience
– Significant experience in at least one GCC country, managing the end to end immigration process
– Managing and coaching more junior immigration/mobility staff
– Managing a portfolio of clients and operating with a mindset of a business owner
– Sufficient network of contacts in the immigration/mobility industry and experience in leading business development initiatives
– Strong communication and analytical skills
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.
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