Customs & Excises Senior Manager

The Customs & Excises Senior Manager is covering all issues related to Customs & Excises throughout the Group.  He / She defines Group procedures, controls risks and compliance in close collaboration with the support and business teams in the regions. He / She is involved in any change triggered by internal or external factors.

Key activites:

• Process owner for day-to day management of all issues related to Customs & Excises regulations application :define procedures and target processes, monitor implementation by all the relevant parties. Answer any questions and ensure consistency with related issues like VAT, GST, transfer pricing, CIT in close relationship with the tax Team in particular in “ad valorem” countries.
• Risk management : identify, assess and manage Customs & Excises risks and propose solutions to mitigate them.
• Customs & Excises Tax audits and tax litigations: follow any customs audit and support the local teams concerned.
• Customs & Excises Tax procedure, licence, authorizations… : Proceed directly or support and control process handled by the operations & business
• Specific regime implementation, control : AEO, bonded warehouse, preferential origin, inward development…
• Custom classification & Tariff : Support and apply new products classification. Propose HS code classification.
• Control and follow up the application of Excise & Import Duty suspension regime in all the group storage locations (raw materials, finished goods, promotional material. Organise regular meetings & processes survey for all warehouses and productions sites among the Group.
• Participate pro-actively to any business development project to support and secure Customs & Excises aspects.
• Propose secured optimization of Customs & Excises costs inbound or outbound.
• Group staff training for functions concerned by Customs and Excises.
• Participate to the business sector working organizations (FFS, EU Customs meeting, BNIC, Medef…) to defend the interest of the Group and be informed of the external practices on Customs & Excise.