Customs & Excise Analyst

Job description

Customs & Excise Analyst Role - 6 Months Maternity Cover (Full Time)

Why join us

At Sainsbury's, we have a rich heritage of over 150 years and a strong commitment to helping customers live well for less. When you join our team, you become part of a trusted retailer that values integrity and strives for innovation. We offer a wide range of opportunities for career growth and development, ensuring that our talented employees have the support and resources they need to thrive. As a member of our team, you will contribute to our ongoing success and be part of a culture that values teamwork, curiosity, and continuous improvement. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits, including learning and development opportunities, bonus schemes, holiday allowances, pension plans, and attractive staff discounts. Join us and be part of a team that is passionate about serving our customers, supporting our communities, and making a positive impact on the environment.

What you'll do

In this role at Sainsbury's, you will be accountable for providing the completion of various HMRC Customs & Excise declarations, ensuring legal compliance with HMRC Customs & Excise regulations. Your responsibilities will include completing relevant Customs & Excise returns, conducting compliance checks on HMRC declarations, creating monthly worksheets, and supporting the business with HTS Code classifications. You will also handle day-to-day queries from customs agents and internal stakeholders, provide support in delivering Customs & Excise training, and work collaboratively with the team to maintain high standards of delivery. Your attention to detail, proactive mindset, and commitment to regulatory deadlines will be crucial in this role, as well as your ability to effectively communicate and demonstrate the core culture and values of Sainsbury's.

Who you are

As a Customs & Excise Specialist at Sainsbury's, you are a highly motivated and detail-oriented professional with a strong understanding of Customs & Excise processes and regulatory tax returns. With your practical experience and awareness of the wider tax implications, you ensure the completion of HMRC Customs & Excise declarations and assist the business in maintaining legal compliance. Your diligence, attention to detail, and commitment to regulatory deadlines enable you to handle compliance checks, validate HTS code classifications, and provide support to internal colleagues and customs agents. You are a self-motivated and proactive individual who thrives in a collaborative team environment, consistently delivering high-quality work. As a diligent communicator and dedicated follower of Sainsbury's culture and values, you contribute to the overall success of the team and the organisation. Along with competitive compensation, you have access to a range of learning and development opportunities, a bonus scheme, holiday allowance, pension, and staff discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos, and Habitat.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
 
 Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).