Freightserve
Freightserve recruitment are looking for a Customs Administrator for a well-established Freight Forwarder based in the Slough, Berkshire area.
Working in The Cross Border department the successful candidate will have good communications and customer service experience, 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
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
Working hours are Monday – Friday
As an agency we are fast becoming the number one Freight specialist in the UK. We have a fast growing reputation with most Freight related companies. Freightserve has been established since 1992 working within the Freight Forwarding and Shipping industry.
To apply for this job please visit www.reed.co.uk.
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