T&L: Immigration, Global Employer Services - Senior Associate / Assistant Manager

Deloitte PLT; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an Assistant Manager for their Immigration Practice. This role involves managing diverse global client portfolios, ensuring compliance with immigration standards, and leading a team in providing exceptional advisory services. Ideal candidates should have significant experience in immigration services and strong communication skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 - 4 years of relevant experience for Senior Associate role.
• Minimum 5 - 7 years of relevant experience for Assistant Manager role.
• Ability to handle client issues maturely.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse portfolio of global premium clients.
• Keep abreast with the latest immigration developments.
• Ensure service delivery according to quality standards.
• Liaise with government authorities effectively.

Skills

Verbal and written English

Bahasa Malaysia

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in commerce/business

Job description

Overview

Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

Date: 13 Aug 2025

What impact will you make?

At Deloitte, we offer a unique and exceptional career experience to inspire and empower talents like you to make an impact that matters for our clients, people and society. Whatever your aspirations, Deloitte offers you unrivalled opportunities to realise your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further, and to find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.

So what are you waiting for? Join the winning team now.

Deloitte\'s Immigration Practice helps companies and individuals manage their immigration compliance matters and obligations effectively and efficiently. Leveraging on Deloitte\'s extensive resources and reach, our Immigration professionals keep clients abreast of developments and offers the unsurpassed consultation on immigration planning and compliance.

The Global Employer Services Immigration team within the Tax Practice offers multidisciplinary consultations to employers and foreign employees of multinationals, large, medium and small companies. Your role includes assisting clients in addressing and managing immigration specific challenges of an employer. You will be responsible to lead the immigration teams on various client engagements in compliance with a specific focus on immigration matters which align with business needs, liaison with various relevant authorities including licensing requirements etc. There will be opportunities to work across with expertise of all functions that create a broader exposure and to develop excellent immigration advisory experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse portfolio of global premium clients across all industries
• Keep abreast with the latest development of immigration requirement
• Ensure service delivery according to the Deloitte quality standards
• Identify and be able to provide a holistic business support advice to clients for matters relating to immigration permits, company set up, licensing etc
• Key liaison contact with relevant government authorities
• Monitor applications from initiation through to successful completion including providing proper guidance to team members in respect of liaising with the clients to collate necessary information / documentation, drafting applications, issuing advice notes and lodging applications with the relevant government authorities
• Work with management on business development opportunities
• Manage the financial performance of the team by monitoring billing and collections status

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose and shared values, challenging themselves everyday to identify issues that are most important to our clients, our people and the communities, and to make an impact that matters. In addition to living our purpose, Assistant Managers across our Firm are expected to:

• Understand objectives for stakeholders, clients and Deloitte whilst aligning own performance to objectives and sets personal priorities.
• Develop themselves by actively seeking opportunities for growth, shares knowledge and experiences with others, and acts as a strong brand ambassador.
• Seek opportunities to challenge themselves, collaborate with others to deliver and takes accountability for results.
• Build relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence peers and stakeholders.
• Work effectively in diverse teams within a highly inclusive team culture where everyone is supported, respected and recognized for their contribution.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in any commerce/business related field.
• Minimum 3 - 4 years of relevant experience in global mobility/immigration services preferably gained from a professional services firm or other related organisations (Senior Associate).
• Minimum 5 - 7 years of relevant experience in global mobility/immigration services preferably gained from a professional services firm or other related organisations (Assistant Manager).
• Strong command of verbal and written English and Bahasa Malaysia.
• Must be a team player and versatile to work with people of diverse background and experience
• Mature in handling clients issues and possess good interpersonal skills
• Able to work under tight deadlines

Due to volume of applications, we regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Requisition ID: 109129

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