Customs Entry Clerk

Your responsibilities as a Customs Entry Clerk include, but are not limited to the following:

• Digitally prepare and file all documentation required to custom clear goods using our bespoke software, managing a large client base shipping multiple commodities.
• Review, organize, and analyze incoming documents to ensure compliance with local Customs Regulations, and provide necessary documentation to other government agencies when required (MSA, IPAFFs, etc.).
• Confidently classify goods and provide expert advice to clients. Identify opportunities to use Preferential Trade Agreements on a per-shipment basis and understand how to read free trade agreements.
• Maintain excellent working relationships with clients by providing first-class customer service. Be obsessed with finding solutions, thinking outside the box, and becoming a trusted trade advisor.
• Manage mid-level projects within the team to drive operational processes and efficiency.

Prerequisites:

• Experience in customs, including handling customs declarations and managing a high volume of entries and clients.
• Familiarity with Customs product classification, the UK tariff, and handling a range of commodities including goods requiring specific licenses. Understanding of special procedures is a bonus.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills with next-level logistical problem-solving abilities—finding solutions to complex client problems is essential.
• An obsession with client happiness and success. High level of computer literacy with an all-digital, paperless approach.
• Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it. See something broken? Fix it.

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest-growing companies, where you’ll have the chance to create a global impact while being a part of a  thriving multinational environment 
• Lunches: Claim back up to GBP 15 per day for lunch allowance on office days
• 25 working days as vacation days based on full time employment, in addition to the usual bank holidays in England and Wales.
• Health insurance: Flexport offers employees in UK private medical insurance including a dental care
• Group Life Insurance 
• Pension plan: Flexport offers employees in the UK a workplace pension plan 
• Equity program: all employees at Flexport become company shareholders because we believe everyone is contributing into company’s success 
• Employee assistance program via Aetna Resources For Living. Flexport offers an employer-sponsored program available at no cost to you and all household members.
• Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child.

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