Customs and Trade Analysts

ROLE: CUSTOMS AND TRADE ANALYSTS
LOCATION: KRAKOW, POLAND
DURATION: 6 MONTHS+
NO. OF POSITION: 6+

SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Ability to work, write, read and speak in English
- Experience in international customs regulations
- Knowledge of free trade agreement principles (NAFTA as an eg)
- Intermediate knowledge of MS suite to produce quality written communications such as memos, spreadsheets, slides, standard work documents.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work in a dynamic and complex environment to meet deadlines and daily requirements.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and maintain a productive and committed work effort, meeting deadlines and managing workload.
- Ability to work effectively with others in a cooperative, enthusiastic and friendly manner to accomplish position functions and participate in team efforts.
- Ability to work on ERP platforms [Oracle] and other designed tools to support customs compliance subjects and [classification, origin, valuation, operational transactions and risk assessment tools]

ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Be part of the center of expertise team at Poland to do the following activities:

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AND ESCALATION MANAGEMENT

- Support clearing shipments held at customs and escalation requests [US, EMEA and Russia], support brokers in getting missing information for clearance purposes. [eg product data requests, manufacturing information requests]
- Support internal employees on local to local office international shipments.
- Support research on technical customs matters

CENTRALIZED CUSTOMS PROCESSES

- Support standardization of the customs process, providing support on the guidelines to the different theatres across the globe
- Support Import/Export/Duty Management projects as well as other trade-compliance global work.
- Work with global customs team to ensure all projects and daily workload are being completed and escalated to the supervisor as needed.

ORIGIN

- Issuance of preferential certificates of origin, support to businesses and customers to communicate information around origin

COMPLIANCE REPORTING AND AUDITS

- Support data mining, trend analysis activities related to the compliance risk and establishment of dashboard to control brokers, support to manual auditing
- Collect, enter and present data using spreadsheets, statistical packages and presentation software
- Assist in preparation, coordination, filing and tracking of external customs requests for information.

TRAINING

- We will expect over time the team to provide training on global processes both internally and externally.