Customs Clearance Specialist
Tilbury, Essex
Full time, Permanent position
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm. This role is 100% office based.
Salary Range: £27,000 - £32,000 per annum (dependent upon experience).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day, you will be part of a team and will arrange an array of import clearances for key clients, processing promptly to ensure a high level of service.
- Communicating with our various customers, suppliers, and sub-contractors to obtain and provide required information to process customs clearances accurately and compliantly within HMRC's guidelines.
- Offering customers guidance on importing their goods into the UK, I.e. commodity codes, customs procedure guidance and general requirements for importing products into the UK market.
- Ensuring to work to the standard set out by being part of an AEO accredited Freight Forwarder.
- Raising Invoices (Including Duty/VAT invoices). Where required, offering manual calculations of taxes to customers for their understanding of costs incurred from HMRC.
- Due to the ever-changing industry the above job responsibilities are not exhaustive and may change.
Skills, Experience and Competencies:
- Proven successful track record of at least two years working for a small to medium sized freight forwarder.
- Must have previous experience with processing & completing entries using CDS (Experience must include either of the following - Deep sea ocean freight clearances or European road freight clearances).
- Be confident navigating HMRC's online tariffs (UK online trade tariff and other .Gov pages) and have a good understanding of customs commodity codes and procedures.
- Knowledge of FTA, knowledge of Origin and Preference.
- Experience with using CNS and Destin8 (CCS-UK experience would also be useful but not a deal breaker). Our forwarding software is Multi-freight.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good communication skills and friendly personality.
- Competent using Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Strong and dynamic team player.
- Excellent Maths and English skills.
Important Notice: Noble Recruiting Limited, located in Billericay, Essex, is an equal opportunities employer. With over 15 years of experience, we specialise in both permanent recruitment and the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this role, your details will be processed by Noble Recruiting Limited. For details on how we handle your information, please refer to our Privacy Policy on our website.
Application Status: Due to the high volume of applications, if you haven't heard from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time.