Immigration Assistant

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About the team

The Immigration team sits within the Specialist Tax function. We manage a range of business immigration services for multinational clients wishing to send their employees to work in the UK and overseas. We also provide immigration services to private clients and to employees of Forvis Mazars.

About the role

• We are seeking a full time Immigration Assistant with key Global visa co-ordination and management experience to join our busy immigration team, based in London. Your role will be to co-ordinate global immigration applications, queries and other related activities under the general direction of the Manager, in providing quality professional services to both Forvis Mazars employees and clients.
• The role will involve liaison with our global immigration network and managing consular applications on behalf of Forvis Mazars and its clients. The role also has an element of UK caseworking.
• Acting as main co-ordination point for internal and external global immigration applications
• Assistance with outbound short-term business visitor applications (especially for the Schengen area)
• Provide advice and guidance on immigration compliance and processes to internal stakeholders
• Liaise with overseas member firms regularly to support UK clients with outbound immigration
• Ensure client records are created and updated in our case management system
• Manage team activities to ensure compliance with Forvis Mazars risk management policies and procedures and manage engagement administration
• Management of engagement financials, cash collection and billing
• Provide reports in line with milestones and other KPI's
• Ensure timely invoice production for globally co-ordinated accounts
• Preparation and submission of immigration and visa applications for the UK

What are we looking for?

• Experience of global visa applications and co-ordination is essential
• Experience with UK inbound immigration
• Confidence communicating to clients at all levels on a regular basis
• Strong organisational skills with ability to plan, prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects
• Excellent level of attention to detail and written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to carry out technical research independent and prepare and submit immigration applications for different jurisdictions
• Proactive, with the ability to plan and manage own workload

Learning and development

There will be an opportunity for you to study towards a professional accreditation if desired, which includes sponsorship for level 1 of the OISC Accreditation.

Your professional qualification is only part of the story at Forvis Mazars; we support all our trainees with a blended approach to training and development including classroom study, 1:1 coaching, and soft skills training. You will be supported by a mentor and an appraising manager to keep your career and aspirations on track and you will be allocated a buddy who will support you to settle into your team.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self.

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Visit forvismazars.com/uk to learn more.