Global Mobility & Immigration Advisor - Human Resources - London at BDO UK

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Reporting into the Global Mobility & Immigration Senior Manager you will be responsible for the management, coordination and compliance of Immigration and International secondments, international assignments and permanent hires in line with BDO policies. Just as importantly, you will also get the opportunity to develop your own skills and expertise.

In this busy and rewarding role you'll also:

• Be the first point of contact for the business, Internal teams, and new joiners in advising on Immigration and International secondments related matters
• Work with the GM manager on conceptualise, develop, and execute GM&I Strategy
• Act as a Subject matter expert to provide guidance to the business, internal teams, and other key stakeholders to ensure advise provided is correctly structured, considering policy, cost and compliance
• Ensure that all cases are complete, and files are compliant against immigration legislation
• Ensure adherence to immigration timelines and monitor process of all new and existing cases
• Complete monthly and quarterly reports on immigration
• Ensure employees close to visa expiry are contacted about the next steps of the visa renewal process
• Conduct secondment briefings with new secondees in person and over the phone providing a professional, informative point of contact throughout the secondment process taking a proactive approach to any challenges along the way
• Instruct tax, payroll, and benefit provider (if appropriate) on international secondments
• Conduct secondment briefings with new secondees in person and over the phone providing a professional, informative point of contact throughout the secondment process taking a proactive approach to any challenges along the way
• Be responsible for accurately executing compliance tasks pertaining to migrant workers immigration compliance and maintenance of BDO’s Sponsorship license
• Request visa invoices and calculate the amount reclaimable from leavers and sharing the details within HR
• Manage the client and virtual secondment process
• Regular calls with Internal /external teams- Taxation/ Payroll/ various suppliers to ensure smooth functioning of Immigration/Secondment processes
• Host calls with the business / Immigration provider to discuss updates in relation to cases and issue
• Instruct and work with the relocation provider (to arrange temporary accommodation), monitor and manage any issues
• Instruct Immigration supplier on new visa case initiations and approve DCoS applications; monitor application status
• Liaise with Partners for appropriate activity sign-off; liaise with internal teams to manage the Sponsorship visa renewal process
• Escalate policy or process exceptions, compliance risks, vendor performance issues and assignee complaints to the Global Mobility Manager as appropriate and have a Problem-solving mind-set
• Ensure monthly trackers for various teams are completed and shared timely

You’ll be someone with:

• Prior experience in the area of Global Mobility and Immigration
• The ability to hit the ground running and use their solid previous experience to navigate the ever complex and changing world of global mobility
• Previous experience in a Global Mobility or Immigration role in a large, complex organisation
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, analytical, problem-solving and verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to prioritise and deliver to tight deadlines
• Multi-tasking skills and the ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment 
• Time management and prioritisation skills 

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.