Customs Advisor - Student Opportunity, No Experience Required

Overview

Department: Tax

Work pattern: Hybrid (2 days required a week at Port Talbot)

Tata Steel believe that Tata Steel's strength is not just in Tata Steel's steel but the diversity of Tata Steel's workforce. Tata Steel's people make the difference.

Tata Steel is looking for an experienced Customs advisor to join a dynamic in-house tax team. This is a unique and exciting newly created international position, supporting a multinational business with all customs and import/export issues with focus on the UK.

This is a high profile and rewarding role, where you will have the opportunity to drive improvement and change to systems and processes, as Tata Steel transitions through the transformation to the Electric Arc Furnace.

What you will do:

As Customs advisor, you will assist the business in meeting its customs legislative and compliance requirements especially in the UK. You will support the UK Customs Manager, UK Customs Advisor, and other tax team members to provide specialist customs advice and work collaboratively with the business in order to implement practical solutions on operational issues.

The Customs advisor will support the Customs Manager and the business with the following responsibilities and objectives:

• Customs administration duties to facilitate the importation and exportation of goods to and from third-party countries, ensuring all Tata Steel’s import and export customs requirements are met.
• Dealing with customs escalations, ensuring that compliance obligations are understood and systems/processes are in place to ensure additional requirements can be met.
• Supporting the wider business with customs expertise to follow existing SOPs and customs policies.
• Monthly reconciliation and compliance of customs entries for UK, Europe, USA, and Canada.
• Audit support for customs enquiries.
• Managing Customs agents queries, including internal teams responsible for customs declarations.
• Making an active contribution in centralising and optimising UK processes currently performed by different departments as well as (partly) outsourced to third parties.
• Acting as a central point of customs expertise to instruct the business on all customs related matters, including dealing with ad hoc customs queries and supporting internal departments such as purchasing, sales, and logistics with advice, information, and instructions on relevant (legislative) changes with support from the Customs Manager.
• Keeping abreast of new and emerging customs legislation, court rulings, and guidelines, taking a proactive approach to support the implement changes throughout the business to ensure activities are carried out efficiently and in compliance.
• Supporting the Customs Manager for stakeholder engagement across TSUK to train and upskill the business, including raising awareness of customs requirements throughout the business and providing internal training where required.
• Working with the business to optimise internal administrative systems, including IT processes, necessary to support customs compliance, defining and supporting the implementation of solutions required to meet requirements, and reviewing performance of vendors used to deliver the service.
• Liaising with HMRC and other regulatory bodies including supervising and handling physical and administrative checks by customs authorities.

What you will need:

Essential:

• Customs administration experience.
• At minimum Undergraduate Degree or 4 years Customs experience in a similar role.
• Experience of working in a commercial environment.
• Affinity with IT software, including experience in relevant Windows packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proven track record of functioning well within a small team, a great sense of responsibility, a practical/hands-on attitude, strong analytical skills, and good numerical insight, with a proactive and decisive attitude.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts (both verbally and in writing) to non-customs specialists in a clear and readily understandable way.

Desirable:

• In possession of a relevant tax, customs, or logistics qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA CTA).
• Experience of working in a customs or international trade support position.
• Experience of logistics and physical distribution within a manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with SAP and customs-related software.

What Tata Steel can offer you:

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Quarterly Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
• Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual cover)
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

Tata Steel also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of Tata Steel's sites, an employee assistance programme, as well as an employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover, and various local services.

Why Tata Steel?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. Tata Steel’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover, and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what Tata Steel do and Tata Steel is dedicated to managing Tata Steel's operations responsibly and to continuously improving Tata Steel's performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.