senior trade compliance specialist
About The Position
As a Senior Trade Compliance Specialist within Customs and Trade, you will be supporting customs compliance and trade operations through accurate execution of customs transactions, research, and reporting. This role ensures timely and compliant import activities, contributes to audit readiness in support of our compliance program, keeping it worthy of our most admired brand status. Building on our solid foundation of ethical standards, you will ensure that our international trade is compliant in both the letter and spirit of the regulations that govern our business. Your work will support process improvements that enhance our data accuracy and operational efficiency and make recommendations to improve their efficacy, design, and implementation. Your work will inform our leaders as they manage complex trade decisions in a very dynamic, fast-paced business environment. As a key member of our trade team, you will support transactional operations such as; classification, broker management and exceptions, valuation, and entry declarations. Maintenance of electronic data, research regulations, duty analysis, and special projects are among the critical tasks performed in this role. Your contributions will make a difference.
Requirements
- 1-4 years customs trade compliance industry, transportation, logistics, customs broker or customs agency experience
- 2 years of experience in data analysis and reporting
- Working knowledge of U.S. import regulations and customs procedures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy in documentation
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- US Customs Broker License or equivalent in another country, future license candidate, preferred
Responsibilities
- Conduct research on regulations, risks, best practices, etc.
- Perform duty impact assessments and support mitigation strategies.
- Assist with the development of process improvements.
- Maintain data and record keeping systems, reporting and accuracy.
- Support documentation management tasks such as versioning, revisions, storage.
- Assist with audit support such as invoice reviews, entry declaration audits, file reviews.
- Support daily operational exception management such as broker requests, missing documents, data, etc., to ensure the smooth flow of customs clearances.
- Maintain KPI’s, metrics, dashboards and reporting.
- Assist with the review and documenting of business processes using standard process mapping and flow-charting tools.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits
- short-term and long-term disability
- paid parental leave
- family expansion reimbursement
- paid vacation from date of hire
- sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
- eight paid holidays
- two personal days per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
- Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
- incentivized emergency savings
- financial well-being tools
- 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
- student loan management resources
- access to other educational opportunities
- backup care
- DACA reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
