Global Employer Services

We’re more than just hired consultants—we're passionate supporters of your goals and the people striving to achieve them. We’re here for you with every transition and workforce mobilization cross-border or domestic, large or small. Every engagement is backed by our network of more than 7,000 Deloitte professionals in more than 150 countries, all of them ready to offer new perspectives on workforce strategies while providing services under our industry leading security and compliance standards.

How we differentiate ourselves from our competitors and bring additional value to our clients:

Size and scale: we are number 1 or number 2 for expatriate tax services by headcount and revenue in most locations around the globe so we have the size, scale, and global reach to serve you immediately and to provide high-quality services in each of your assignment locations.

One team approach: one of our key differentiators is that our team is truly integrated. A dedicated relationship manager will manage our delivery team both across borders and across the different specialist services we will provide. This is  straightforward for us because all our mobility services sit in one service line operating with one shared culture. Our functional teams sit in the same buildings, working together across clients and service offerings. This integrated approach means our clients see one team, providing one seamless service. 

Technology: while we do not forget that mobility services are essentially a people service, technology has an important part to play in enabling the service and ensuring that the experience for your mobility team and employees is friction-free. Our GlobalAdvantage technology platform supports the delivery of all Deloitte services, and our dashboard reporting gives you direct oversight of your compliance position and spend with Deloitte in a visually compelling, interactive manner. In delivering our immigration support, we will leverage Cobalt – our proprietary immigration technology to manage cases while giving you visibility and reporting on all cases, while giving assignees the ability to access their own cases and upload their documents securely.

Innovation: we are known for our innovative and dynamic approach in the industry. We have a dedicated team whose full-time role is to develop regular insight surveys and thought leadership, whilst helping organizations build and implement their global mobility programs providing experience across the full spectrum of talent management, reward, technology, service delivery and process design. We believe that our capability in this space offers a true differentiator from our competitors and an opportunity to add value to your international mobility program. 

A business with a global presence needs an immigration strategy that knows no borders, one that unlocks the potential of its international teams. When you're growing internationally, access to a global workforce with cross border mobility is crucial. To make sure that you've got the right people in the right roles in the right places, you need quick, efficient international employee transfers—along with compliant, cost-effective immigration programs that meet the needs of both the business and employees.

Drawing on established relationships with regulators and other immigration authorities, Deloitte immigration specialists help you navigate complex challenges including government advocacy, audit, and right-to-work issues.

We secure compliance for work permits, business visas, employer sponsorships, and immigration applications. And we can help you design an immigration program that's efficient, compliant, and people-centered. We’re there to assist as you keep your people moving and business expanding while getting closer to realizing your global ambitions.

As organizations expand across borders, their needs vary. We provide a holistic end-to-end suite of services in navigating your immigration requirements. The below outlines the suite of immigration services we offer our clients – our immigration team has the knowledge and expertise to manage this for you, whichever juncture you find yourself in.

When you manage a mobile workforce for a global business, you need the right people in the right roles in the right places—for both the challenges you see coming and the ones you don’t.

Boost your mobility. We support your mobile workforce in ways that are cost-effective and tax compliant with multiple tax laws and regulations while remaining sensitive to employee circumstances. Integrated mobility services from Deloitte help you meet talent needs while offering employees workplace flexibility.

Our workforce specialists support you with strategic planning and operational execution, identifying resources for your global business— from outsourcing models and compliance reporting to digital solutions that streamline processes to assist you to improve outcomes across your business.

Deloitte is ready to provide tailored mobility support wherever, and whenever your people need it.

Our service offerings include advising on compliance and social security obligations such as the Involuntary Loss of Employment Insurance (ILOE) in the UAE, End of Service Benefits, pensions, payroll tax reporting and filing requirements across the Middle East. We also help our clients prepare and navigate compliance updates in the region, including the introduction of Personal Income Tax in Oman. With all these considerations in mind, we provide tailored briefings for individuals arriving to or departing from the GCC countries.

As the talent landscape in the Middle East evolves, the remuneration agenda within the GCC continues to shift to place greater focus on attracting a global workforce, retaining key talent and incentivising strong performance. To ensure that companies maintain their competitive edge, a clear and well-defined reward strategy is fast becoming a key priority.

Services we provide: Deloitte’s Reward Advisory practice advises and supports  clients on all aspects of executive and senior management reward strategies and share plan services – ensuring alignment of remuneration with corporate objectives, market practice and regulatory requirements, where relevant.

Our integrated team provides a “one stop shop” for all stages of strategic reward design and implementation, and includes remuneration and share plan experts, tax advisors, accounting and valuations specialists, actuaries and lawyers across a global footprint.

Our holistic capability and presence: A holistic approach, with local and global Deloitte teams providing advice on reward and talent retention, tax, accounting, payroll, social security,  and HR compliance support.

Our Global GES practice has experience in advising international and local companies on reward, immigration and global mobility in the UAE and KSA at different stages of the company lifecycle, including those establishing a presence and those already operating in the region.

At Deloitte we work with organizations across industries, with various scales of employees who make up their international mobility programs; from just a handful of foreign national local hires to thousands of international assignees.

All these organizations are unique in their mobility program setup and showcase a range of program maturities; from digital technologies to enhance employee experience to relying solely on spreadsheets for their compliance tracking. However, despite program differences, one challenge we are constantly being asked to help solve is: "How can we design an immigration program that supports a proactive compliance culture within our organization?”

Of course, many other challenges have cropped up whilst we support our clients, such as:

1. How can we lower the costs of international travel?

2. How can we provide our employees with a better mobility experience?

3. How can we provide our business with immigration and legal requirements knowledge upfront to support expansion strategies?

We assist clients in managing their global mobile workforce by

• Providing workforce strategy, managing and transforming compliance, talent, and reward programs
• Delivering strategic value through identifying opportunities to implement & leverage technology, streamline processes, manage risk, and enhance the employee experience.
  

The Global Employer Services team provides updates on a regular basis regarding the most important GES news in the region.

Our Global Employer Services experts would be happy to support you with your specific Immigration, Mobility Tax, Reward, and Workforce Advisory requirements.

Key contacts

Global Employer Services Leader

• Hadi Allawi

Immigration services:

• Mohammed Haque
• Nutan Patel
• Syed Mansoor
• Neha Abraham 
• Vinodhini Sundar

Mobility Tax and Workforce Advisory services:

• Namrata Nehru
• Jasmine Kular

Reward Advisory services:

• Kauthar Khan

Private:

• Zahra Jaf 
  

Understand social security and end of service benefit requirements across the GCC and how regulatory developments may affect your workforce. Explore how we can help.