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International Trade Customs & Compliance Specialist -Business Process Owner SOPs, Best Practices CCS -PreferredIndustry: Building Products Construction materials Salary : 110K -120K base benefits etc.Full Time Permanent Location: Mississauga-Brampton, ON 5 days a week on-siteOur client is a large manufacturer importer-exporter of building materials / construction materials and has a job open for International Trade Customs & Compliance Specialist. This is a hands on Continuous improvement role to be fully responsible for tariffs, duties , duty drawback, documentation & compliance and yet be in a process driven mindset to implement SOPs , Best Practices between finance logistics operations. The job is based in Mississauga Brampton, ON area, 5 days a week. This is a hands-on continuous improvement role responsible for maintaining all daily logs and documentation given the high volume of imports exports from and to the US; creating status update on custom duties, drawbacks and more importantly defining SOPs and Best Practices in Customs, related to all imports and exports. This role requires high attention to detail, numbers acumen, strongfinancial aptitude, above average Excel and an ability to work with senior leadership in Operations & Finance to streamline processes working on the internal CUSMA. CCS is very highly preferred. This is NOT a brokerage and hence experience of imports dn export of owned goods ,managing the broker relationship is a MUST.International Trade Customs & Compliance Specialist will work with internal external partners across Operations & Finance, fully responsible for all documentation, compliance, regulatory requirements, duty, tariffs, triage, refund etc. related to customs for imports as well as exports to the US and ROW. You will analyze existing custom related processes, conducted Root Cause Analysis of any discrepancies, write / revise SOPs and lead the continuous improvement initiatives. This is an internal auditor role focused on custom documentation, records, entries, expedite and liquidate custom entries, clearance of old bonds, letters of credit and similar. You will own the relationship with the broker, manage their performance and improve effectiveness. You will be the SME on HS codes, review data received from brokers, analyze and update ADD and MID # codes and ensure accountability for accuracy. You will be the SME on duty drawbacks -US & Canadian, Canadian Duty Deferral program with CBSA and similar. You will also remain the point of contact for the banks for letter of Credits/ bonds and similar. International Trade Customs & Compliance Specialist will ideally have minimum of 8-9 years as Customs Specialist Subject Matter Expert for imports into Canada, Exports to US & ROW. You, would have proven success in improving customs, duty, drawback, CBSA, CBP processes (No exceptions) and would have acted as the internal auditor to work closely with Finance on custom related entries. Experience of managing the brokers is a MUST. Above average MS Excel skills, Power BI, hands-on roll-up-the-sleeve attitude, experience with HS codes related to construction building materials and similar is highly preferred. This is not a brokerage firm hence working on the internal CUSMA experience is highly important.Bachelors degree, Certified Customs Specialist (CCS), Certified Classification Specialist (CCLS ) , Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement experience are all key. Qualified applicants already in GTA are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to . Please write 'International Trade Customs & Compliance Specialist in the subject line of your e mail.AI may be used to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.