Customs Compliance Specialist – Customs Broker
Email: kevin@buckleysearch.com or anna@buckleysearch.com
- COVID – 19 Safety rules in Place for Consulting with customers to determine needs
- Liaising with CBSA, CFIA and OGD officials regarding legislative requirements
- Daily/periodic reviews of customers compliance needs and issues
- Attending CBSA Seminars to stay abreast of the newest legislative programs
- HS Tariff Classifications review
- Database mining/manipulation at an advanced level with Excel an asset
- Rulings, Refunds, Remissions and Drawbacks
- Maintain and develop knowledge of various relevant laws and regulations
- Identify tax recovery opportunities (customs duties, drawback, GST, excise tax, etc.)
- Generate automated reports
- Seek client revenue opportunities through visits, phone calls or correspondences
- Prepare proposals, present services and get written approval/authorization from clients
- Negotiate service fees.
- Perform work according to the mandate, i.e. classification, determination of the customs value, determination of origin under free trade agreements, HST
- Respond to inquiries from internal and external clients on customs regulations
- Represent the interests of clients with various government authorities
- Prepare documentation for billing services performed
Qualifications:
- Experience in a customs brokerage or customs consulting house environment.
- Customs Broker Professional Status or CTCS qualifications strongly preferred
- Strong technical knowledge of CBSA, CFIA, and OGD regulations, especially release, accounting, rules of origin,
- HS Tariffs, e-Manifest, import permits and NAFTA certification requirements
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong consultative, organizational, problem solving and decision-making abilities
- AMPS/Compliance, Audits, Valuations, Exportations
- Developer attitude with a hands-on approach to serving the customer
- Proactive in following up with customers and providing professional service
- Teamplayer, focused on creating successful solutions to client problems
