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Ref: HP639-1094
Job description / Role
Line of Service
Tax
Specialism
Immigration
Management Level
Administrative
Job Description & Summary
We are part of the largest global legal network and have over 3,500 lawyers and legal professionals in over 90 countries (over 170 countries including immigration law and entity governance & compliance). Our Middle East Legal Network continues to rapidly grow. Our lawyers and legal professionals work alongside the wider PwC, providing a truly joined up client facing service offering. Our team often works with Tax, Structuring, Consulting and Risk Assurance Services and other professionals from within PwC to deliver a unique, comprehensive and integrated service to our clients.
We are a thriving business across the Middle East with a regional hub in Dubai, looking to expand further.
The Immigration practice provides advisory and compliance services to clients in relation to immigration and provides a unique opportunity to broaden your own skills and be at the cutting edge of legal services. We also look to embrace technology in everything we do. We are looking for an Administrative assistant/Associate with ideally two years' experience and a Middle East Immigration background, to join the team and to help support its continued expansion.
Our new Admin assistant/Associate will be fully integrated into the team and will work closely with lawyers and legal professionals of all levels. Like the rest of our team, we expect those in this role will enjoy an interesting, varied and challenging workload. The day-to-day work may involve research and gathering information for clients on immigration compliance, assisting Associates with preparing visa/work permit application packs, assisting drafting client alerts, as well as the managing of all team administrative tasks. It will involve liaising with our other specialist legal teams in the Middle East and with our Network firms in other jurisdictions, and generally working with the team to develop top quality service to our clients.
Essential skills:
- Fluency in spoken and written English; clear, articulate and confident in written and verbal communication skills
- A high level of computer literacy, including a good working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and legal databases/case working tools
- Well organised and able to deal with large amounts of information
- Excellent attention to detail
- Primarily a team player but also able to complete specified tasks under own initiative
- Ability to adapt and be flexible
- Highly driven and proactive
- Respect for confidential information
Requirements
Desirable skills:
- Proficient Arabic language ability highly desirable
- Middle East immigration experience with a focus on the UAE (mainland and freezone jurisdictions) and Saudi Arabia
About the Company
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.