Global Mobility Specialist in London

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations, and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman’s thought leadership is evident in our agenda-setting books, white papers, research reports, and articles in the business press. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.

Oliver Wyman is now seeking a Global Mobility Specialist to join the Team in London.

The Opportunity:

The Global Mobility Specialist provides support to the Global Mobility Manager on a diverse range of activities including day-to-day immigration and relocation matters. General activities include advising and assisting internal clients on visa and work permit processing, as well as assisting employees through the process of international transfers between Oliver Wyman offices. The Global Mobility Specialist will also closely cooperate with the HR team on managing the Sponsor Management System of sponsored workers.

Key Responsibilities:

Immigration

• Advise Talent Management (TM) Teams on immigration processes required for international project staffing. This also includes proactively staying up to date on restrictions, challenges and changes to existing processes, advising TM of potential impact on project staffing and implementing alternative solutions as and where required
• Advise Recruiting Teams on appropriate permits and application processes for employees and candidates
• Administer immigration programmes and work permit processes as required. Generate documentation associated with visa and work permit applications including but not limited to, invitation letters, business introduction letters, travel insurance certifications and general travel letters. This also requires close collaboration with team colleagues across regions.
• Support applicants through the process of visa application by providing information of the visa being applied for, process steps, documents required, visa fees and key information.
• Monitor systematic changes to visa processes and ensure that OW standard templates are updated to reflect any changes
• Administer Immigration files of OW sponsored workers as required by local immigration authorities, and in close collaboration with the HR Operations team to ensure visa files are in good order and up to date

Relocation

• Coordinate the approval process for international transfers in close collaboration with Talent Management
• Pull together the transfer paperwork and act as main point of contact for relocating employees, liaising with other parts of the business as needed (HR Operations, Talent Management etc)
• Administer enrollment for relocation benefits (Medical insurance, tax assistance, relocation support) and liaise with the vendors as needed.

Database, Reporting, and Teaming

• Input all data into the team’s internal Immigration and Relocation Database on Sharepoint and ensure data integrity is maintained
• Monitor expiry dates of visas and work permits and proactively contact applicant to see whether a renewal may be required.

Required Experience :

• 1-3 years of experience in UK immigration. Candidates with experience solely in the relocation field will not be considered.
• BA/MA degree, preferably in law/immigration law/HR.
• Experience in professional services would be advantageous.

Skills & Abilities :

• Strong work ethic
• Flexible attitude
• Strong client experience focus
• Demonstrates a learning mindset
• Ability to both take direction and work independently
• Ability to anticipate client needs and manage expectations
• Ability to communicate across all levels of the firm
• Ability to collaborate within the team and across functions, globally
• Ability to identify and ask questions that will help lead to potential solutions
• Demonstrates clear understanding of function responsibilities, and a willingness to maintain boundaries accordingly.

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us!

• We’re individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do
• We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us
• We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion
• We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity
• We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.
• We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

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