Customs Administrator

Location: Fordingbridge
Salary: Up to £25K
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week Monday – Friday. Ideally starting at 7am (for training) but can then be flexible between 7am-6pm. Hybrid working after training/probation – 1 day per week in the office in Fordingbridge
Benefits: 23 days holiday per annum + bank holidays, free parking, pension
Aspire Jobs are working exclusively with our client, who are a well-established global distributor. Due to a recent promotion, they are now looking for an additional member to join their Customs team.
This role will see you having some administration experience with a lot of copy and pasting, looking for information and inputting information. You don't need any previous customs/import or export experience although if you do this is a bonus!
The successful Customs Administrator will:-

• Have some previous administration experience
  
• Have good Excel skills
  
• Be IT literate
  
• Be willing to learn
  
• Have good attention to detail with an eye for detail
  
• Shipping & Customs experience is beneficial but not essential
  
• Be able to follow processes.
  
• Be self-motivated, with a good work ethic and be reliable.
  
• Have strong organisational skills
  
• Have excellent customer service skills.
  This role encompasses all aspects relating to customs clearance and the inward processing of goods procured from overseas
  Whilst the role will be quite basic to start off with, after training and over time you will work towards a more specialist customs role, so you must be prepared to learn.
  There is a lot of compliance in this role so if you have worked in a compliance/regulated environment then so much the better, but again it's not essential.
  Job Duties of the Customs Administrator
  
• Advising all freight companies currently involved in the importation of goods from overseas on behalf of our client of the appropriate commodity code and customs procedure codes
  
• Liaising with freight agents/importers, ascertaining the correct commodity code by using the data within their IT system, external reports and data received on the vendors customs invoice
  
• Ascertain the appropriate Customs Procedure Code (CPC) from the trade-tariff website;
  
• Oversee all the information is sent through to the requestor, so they can complete the inward processing
  
• Checking and verifying that all customer entries are correct as per the original data provided
  
• Using customs entry, verify that the correct Commodity Code and CPC were used by referring back to the information supplied from the original request. If there is a conflict in the information, refer back to the importer for verification
  
• Verifying all the information and add the customs entry number to Quantum, whilst updating the Customs Status accordingly
  
• Attending review meetings as and when required