Our client are a well established Heathrow freight forwarding agent who have an exciting new role available based out of their Slough Contract Logistics Centre for a Customs Administrator. The successful candidate will have previous Customs Clearance knowledge and a good comms/customer service ability, IT skills (Word/Excel) and excellent verbal/written English together with a 5 year steady employment/education record/clear DBS check.
Reporting to and partnering with Customs Manager, you will support the customs department to ensure robust customer services is achieved in line with the strategic direction of the department
Employment Terms:
Position Title: Customs Administrator (Cross Border)
Reports to Cross Border Manager
Location: Slough
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Department: Contract Logistics
Salary: £ DOE
Hours: 09h00am-5.30pm
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working with the team to get shipments moving
- Entering and sorting data in Excel ensuring that KPI’s are visible
- Preparing for customs entries
- Bulk Upload of documents entries
- Submitting export customs entries to customs using customs system
- Submitting of import entries to customs system
- Creation of T1’s
- Liaising and communicating with external and internal customers
- Ensure all information is entered into the system and communicated to relevant personnel
Experience/ Technical Abilities:
*Experience of Customs Clearances
*Excel knowledge, advanced desirable.
*Excellent communication in English (verbal and written)
Personal Attributes:
*Effective communicator
*Accurate, independent and focused
*Achiever
*Problem solver
*Must be able to multitask
*Ability to work in a challenging and dynamic environment as a team player
*Confident