Senior Audit Specialist, Trade Compliance

The TJX Companies, Inc.•Marlborough, MA

11d•$85,600 - $109,200•Onsite

About The Position

TJX Companies At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer. Leads the development and implementation of internal controls and auditing programs utilizing a risk assurance methodology across Trade Compliance activities. The focus of these validations will be to enable and ensure compliance with U.S. Customs, regulatory requirements, industry standards, company policies through validating documented processes, procedures, and policies against actual practices to access risk and ensure appropriate risk internal controls and monitoring are in place. Determines appropriate corrective actions and recommendations are implemented. Partners cross functionally with Logistics, Legal, Risk Management, IT, and key stakeholders to drive compliance, and reduce regulatory risk ensuring adherence to controls.

Requirements

Risk assurance methodology
U.S. Customs and regulatory requirements
Industry standards and company policies
Documented processes, procedures, and policies
Internal controls and monitoring
Corrective actions and recommendations
Cross-functional partnership with Logistics, Legal, Risk Management, IT, and key stakeholders
Trade compliance auditing and validation programs
Governance of compliance internal controls, policies and procedures
Adherence to TJX’s participation in CBP’s CTPAT Cargo Security and Trusted Trader Program
Risk assessment business processes
Audits of processes and targeted risk assessments
Communication and presentation of audit findings and recommendations
Development and implementation of corrective action plans

Responsibilities

Leads the development and execution of trade compliance auditing and validation programs to identify through risk assurance methodologies opportunities to improve internal controls.
Validates governance of compliance internal controls, policies and procedures across a changing retail product mix and regulatory environment.
Ensures the Trade Compliance activities are carried out following documented policies and procedures, provides guidance and recommendations for improvement.
Ensures adherence to TJX’s participation in CBP’s CTPAT Cargo Security and Trusted Trader Program.
Maintain awareness of industry practices in risk assessment business processes and apply this knowledge to TJX.
Conducts audits of processes and targeted risk assessments to evaluate compliance with documented internal controls and applicable regulatory requirements.
Prepares, communicates and presents audit findings and recommendations, and drives the development and implementation of corrective action plans with key stakeholders and leadership