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Global Business Immigration Services Consultant

We are looking for a Global Business Immigration Services Consultant to provide and manage a range of business immigration services to multinational clients who send employees and their families to work and live in another country. These services typically centre on the compliance and legal issues in coordinating and filing their work and visa applications, subsequent work permit/visa extensions and passport/nationality issues.

The Business Immigration Services Group has a busy, client service focused environment, and team members have high levels of contact with corporate clients and assignees at all levels within the organisation, from different cultural and national backgrounds.


Responsibilities will be as follows:

The role will involve looking after a portfolio of clients and managing these accounts on a day-to-day basis. In addition there will be 'supervisory' duties, dealing with technical queries from the team and reviewing straightforward work permit applications and emails of advice. The post holder will create and bridge the gap between Senior Management and the day-to-day work.

The successful candidate will be responsible for all UK Inbound immigration issues and will therefore have an excellent knowledge of work permits, settlement, Visas, citizenship procedures, good supervisory and people skills (responsibility for Global client account coordination may follow as the business grows but this is not guaranteed).

Specific accountabilities include:

* Responsible for day-to-day supervision and technical support within the UK immigration team (currently three Consultants and one Coordinator)
* Using technical knowledge to ensure high level of accuracy in advice
* Deployment of staff/project work during busy periods
* Escalating issues to Senior Management
* Responsible for day-to-day coordination of client accounts
* Liaison with the individual, Government departments etc regarding immigration issues
* Drafting immigration applications and complex technical advice
* Overseeing and dealing with additional queries and associated administrative matters
* Billing/debtors ensuring the Group's advisory work is quoted for and billed ensuring complex cases are re-quoted accordingly
* Monitoring accurate time recording ·monitoring and managing bill production and debtor queries
* Risk management/compliance
* Ensuring all client work has necessary client acceptance and engagement letter in place

The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in Business Immigration and will ideally come from a professional services/consultancy background.

Some supervisory experience is required with excellent project management skills and the ability to prioritise workload.