Customs Tax Manager

Job Title: Customs Tax Manager

Salary: Competitive 

Location: Cambridge

Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week

Are you ready to take charge of customs compliance in a globally renowned academic institution? Join us as our Customs Tax Manager.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As our Customs Tax Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring seamless customs compliance and advisory services for Cambridge University Press & Assessment. This will include work on appropriate frameworks, planning, obtaining tax advice, all of which will ensure our global customs footprint remains “fit for purpose”. You'll play a pivotal role in our global operation.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Customs Compliance: Lead compliance efforts, oversee documentation, and ensure timely submission of declarations
2. Tax Planning & Strategy: Drive efficient goods movement strategies and frameworks, demonstrating adaptability where laws change.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Operations, Finance, and Legal teams to ensure seamless compliance
4. Risk Management: Identify and mitigate customs and tax risks, developing contingency plans as needed
5. Reporting & Analysis: Deliver insightful reports and analyse data to continually enhance processes and updated senior stakeholders

About you

 You will possess an in-depth understanding of UK and international customs laws and regulations, coupled with a strong grasp of tax laws pertinent to international trade. Proficiency in imports/export procedures, tariffs, and classifications is essential, as is familiarity with customs compliance software and tools.

Additionally, candidates should demonstrate expertise in VAT, GST, and other indirect tax matters related to cross-border trade, along with comprehensive understanding of supply chain operations and their intersection with customs and tax compliance.

 More About You

• Relevant degree level qualification. A professional accountancy/tax/customs related qualification would be beneficial.
• Proven track record of successfully managing customs and tax compliance for international operations.
• Experience in liaising with government authorities and customs agencies.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 11 March and interviews are scheduled to take place shortly after. 

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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