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Immigration Manager - UK

You will be empowered to manage all aspects of UK immigration applications. This will require you to apply your understanding of legislative changes to ensure that processes and systems are operationalised and followed to comply with current and new legislation. 

The role will require you to manage and supervise a high volume of casework and consultations, whilst requiring interaction with key stakeholders on client engagements, to ensure a seamless experience for all assignees/employees.

The Role   

•    Provide day-to-day operational oversight across all aspects of the UK immigration process, ensuring day to day execution of service commitments including rigorous quality controls and service enhancements

•    Oversee case management including review and sign off

•    Take on case work on an as needed basis

•    Identify opportunities to use technology to streamline immigration processes

•    Implement the SLA framework ensuring timely and accurate escalations in line with service level commitments

•    Employ strong risk management controls in line with legislation and compliance requirements

•    Adapt to continuous and ongoing legislative changes ensuring process is ‘fit for purpose’ and supported by ongoing training and development

•    Identify the team’s training and development requirements, ensuring the team receives sufficient support and coaching

•    Interpret and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance and support

•    Management of a team: this includes undertaking responsibility for all day-to-day operational matters including managing financials, risk, capacity and performance of the team.

Education & Qualification    

Experience Required

This is a growing team, and the role will suit an ambitious immigration professional with the desire and ability to play an important role in continuing that growth.

The successful applicant will be organised and efficient, whilst also possessing excellent communication skills and attention to detail. The successful candidate will also possess the ability to consistently produce high quality and technically accurate legal advice within demanding timeframes, whilst challenging unethical behaviours and seeking appropriate clarifications when required.  Experience of working on multiple, as well as high volume, corporate immigration accounts is essential.

The successful applicant will have a proven track record in overseeing and effectively managing a team, including reviewing, and signing off complex immigration advice, whilst consulting and escalating as appropriate. The applicant will also have experience of advising alongside other professionals and have an understanding of the immigration elements involved in cross-border moves, including business traveller risks, remote working, and compliance obligations.

The applicant will have experience of handling a wide range of UK immigration applications which ideally will include the, following:

•    Work Visas (Senior or Specialist Workers, Skilled Worker)

•    Frontier Worker Permits

•    Sponsor licence applications and associated ongoing compliance

•    Family applications

•    Mock audits

•    Prevention of illegal working/Right To Work

•    Student and Graduate routes

•    Immigration policy design

KPMG is looking for a confident client-facing UK Immigration Manager, with strong technical and inter-personal skills, who thrives in a hi

Base Location: London

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The KPMG Powered Enterprise function is a cornerstone of our business. We do work that matters to our local business and communities – supporting technical innovation and adoption of cutting-edge solutions across the United Kingdom. Working on complex engagements for the whole of the KPMG client-side business portfolio through delivery of core technology and managed services capabilities, collaboration and innovation development services and building of our Alliances network. Our integrated capability teams design, build and operate flexible technology enabled solutions for clients to help them solve the most complex business problems and transform their operations. These clients trust us to get it right first time.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancy businesses, we've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

Why Join KPMG Powered Enterprise function as Oracle Manager?

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions driven by a pre-defined back-office function based on leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. The target operating model comprises of service delivery model, people, process, technology, data & insight and governance & controls. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities, and insight into what makes a world class corporate services function with the latest in ERP technology provided by the leading SaaS ERP vendors such as Oracle.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g., Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Apps team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

What will you be doing?

About KPMG Delivery Network

KPMG is focused on achieving significant growth ambitions while becoming the most trusted professional services firm. For Audit, this requires a relentless focus on key initiatives that drive Audit Quality and achieve Operational Excellence through standardization, centralization, automation, and innovation.

The establishment of a global delivery model, KPMG Delivery Network for Audit (KDN Audit), will help make significant strides in all these focus areas. We envision a network of global, regional, and specialty focused delivery centers that provide standardized services (on a cost recovery basis) to engagement teams in all member firms. The potential benefits are plentiful. Audit quality will be increased by the centralized, consistent performance of certain audit procedures. Engagement teams will be able to increase their focus on more complex procedures or on serving more clients. Our multi-national clients will have a more consistent experience around the globe. Most member firms will be able to achieve better margins. Finally, the firm will have a mechanism to help quickly deploy new and emerging solutions (e.g. ESG) and audit innovations (e.g. audit technology).

Role Summary

KDN for Audit is a critical component of delivering the Global ESG Assurance strategy, and is fundamental to ensuring member firms can scale their assurance practices’ in a rapidly changing market. 

Our vision is that the KDN ESG Assurance team will support every ESG Assurance engagement across the global network with access to market leading expertise and highly standardised services so they can deliver consistently high quality. The CSRD in the EU is expected to create a multi-billion dollar opportunity for KPMG in ESG assurance, but in order to meet demand, we will need a significant amount of capacity and subject matter experience. KDN will be the only way member firms can meet the scale of this challenge, and is a truly transformative opportunity for the firm.

We are seeking a Manager to serve as an assurance subject matter expert to partner with global Leaders to build profile, provide credibility for ESG sales pitches and develop and lead the delivery of assurance services.  Through this work, you will have the opportunity to help shape a more sustainable future, as well as work with fantastic colleagues and the brightest minds in KPMG.

How you will make your mark

To be successful, KDN ESG Assurance aims to amplify existing investments in ESG knowledge, experience and processes to deliver best in class services across the KPMG network.  The role therefore focuses on building a framework and solutions that are innovative, purposeful, and fit for adoption across the network.

We need you!  New projects and service developments are always on the horizon, so we’re looking for someone who can contribute to our growth and success.

Key activities will include:

• Representing KPMG and building the assurance brand from an international perspective
• Supporting and partially managing ESG assurance engagements, including report assurance, readiness services and other assurance related activities
• Building capacity within the member firms through training and knowledge sharing:
  •   Enabling member firm teams to work in compliance with the latest legislation and frameworks
  •   Ensuring teams are up to date on developments on frameworks and requirements
  •   Developing and rolling-out training for sustainability and audit teams
• Identifying opportunities for KDN process improvement and standardisation including:
  •   Work paper development and explore ways to make the process more effective
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The KPMG Audit Technology team is dedicated to building cutting-edge solutions in close collaboration with the Audit function. We blend audit expertise with the latest technology, enabling us to understand the challenges our customers face daily and develop indispensable products that simplify their lives while promoting Audit Quality.

As a crucial member of the team, you will collaborate with a talented mix of Product Owners/Managers, Solution, Cloud and Enterprise Architects, Experience Designers, Business Analysts, and Testing specialists. Together, we build, deliver, and manage a portfolio of truly exciting products.

In recent years, our products' size and scale have rapidly expanded, leading to significant growth in our technology capability. There's never been a better time to join us.

In the role, you will be responsible for managing and delivering our  most complex audit engagements to a high standard of quality, from planning through to completion. 

You will have your own portfolio of large and/or complex audited entities, with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including specialists), monitoring budgets, and supervising the KPMG audit process. You will manage and nurture stakeholder relationships at audited entities throughout the engagement, working with senior level staff.

You are also likely to have a departmental role, facilitating the internal operations of running the business, for example, roles relating to finance, technology, quality, people etc. 

As an Audit Senior Manager, you will be responsible for leading teams and supervising the work of junior staff, providing coaching and development to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements. You will also have performance management responsibilities for a small number of employees.