Trade Customs Clerk

**Sector**: Manufacturing
**Function**: Purchasing & Supply Chain
**Contact**: Ellie Ebbage

**Phone**:01384 446118**
**Duration**: Contract
**Job Ref**:67149
- Job details**Trade Customs Clerk**

**Peterlee (hybrid)**

**£22.40/hr Umbrella (inside IR35)**

**12 month initial contract**

**Job description**:
Import and export customs clearance

**Responsibilities include**:

- Import/Export Compliance
- Clearance instructions
- Dealing with customs ports
- Checking documentation is trade compliant
- HMRC compliance
- Month end duties and reconciliations
- VAT/Trade testing
- Supplier origin statements
- Data management for commodity codes

**Skills and experience**:

- Import / Export Customs compliance experience (essential)
- Customs experience in a manufacturing environment would be beneficial.
- Accuracy and attention to detail required for providing customs clearance instructions to brokers.
- Strong reconciliation skills.
- IT proficiency: Excel, ERP Systems etc.
- Effective, professional communication and presentation skills
- Managing multiple priorities
- Ability to work with different groups of people - Relationship management skills with 3rd party service providers, HMRC, Technical Tax & Trade Central team, various business teams and support services (such as IT)
- Any trade customs certifications would be a bonus.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.

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