Junior Customs Administrator

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 Junior Customs Administrator. The successful candidate will have 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 TitleJunior Customs Administrator (Cross Border)

Reports to Cross Border Manager

Location: Slough

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Department: Contract Logistics

Salary: £20-25k 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 working with or in the logistics sector, desirable but not essential
• Excel knowledge, advance desirable but not essential as training will be provided
• 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