Trade Compliance Operations Assistant

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Senior Support Staff, Trade Compliance Operations job performs routine clerical and administrative tasks related to trade compliance operations activities to support larger trade compliance operations projects. Working independently under limited supervision for routine situations, this job assists with administrative issues to ensure the organization's trade operations are compliant through various documentation procedures.

Key Accountabilities

• OPERATIONAL EXECUTION: Performs routine clerical and administrative tasks, including cross border clearance execution, filing import and export declarations with customs and other government agencies and supporting validation and coordination of import and export transactional requirements applying to all documents and data, according to defined procedures and controls to preserve value and mitigate risk.
• TRANSACTION AUDITING: Assists with regular audits and assessments of trade transactions to ensure compliance with related regulations, customs requirements and trade agreements.
• DOCUMENTATION REVIEW: Prepares and reviews trade documents, including invoices, preferential trade documentation, shipping documents, export licenses and other cross border documents to ensure accuracy, completeness and compliance with legal and fiscal requirements.
• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Collaborates with internal and external partners to implement new trade compliance operations solutions.
• METRICS ANALYSIS: Collects, processes, prioritizes, analyzes and reports on global trade and compliance data to facilitate cross border execution and analysis.
• DATA ENTRY & MANAGEMENT: Maintains customs master files and records to support compliance with information management policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.