Customs & Excise Manager Ireland

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About the role:

Customs & Excise Manager/SME will report to the Regional Customs, Excise and Trade Compliance Lead which sits under Global Tax.

Dimensions

Financial

Diageo's indirect tax liability is £7bn globally. The role holder will lead the part connected to their markets and region's indirect tax queries.

Diageo saves 52 million of customs duty annually on a global scale. The role holder will handle the part connected to their markets and region's indirect tax queries.

Role Responsibilities:

Key Internal interactions:

• Regional Supply business partners and business unit leaders - develop and maintain a strong working relationship and keep up to date with business priorities and developments
• Tax Controls & governance Team, Legal, Corporate Relations and Global Tax. Collaborating with these functions as required to deliver end to end Supply chain efficiency
• Regional GBO - maintain a good working relationship with the customs and excise compliance team
• Supply Governance & Change - provide specialist global trade support to the delivery of change programmes

Key External Interactions:

1. Customs & Excise authorities - proactive management of the relationship with customs and excise authorities - including

- Running site audits and resultant enquiries

- Providing documentation where requested

- Dealing with technical enquiries

2. 3PL production, warehousing, logistics providers and customs agents/brokers -

- Monitoring agreed delivery metrics through KPI's.

- Support annual audit on the 3PL

- Operate regular Service Review Calls

- Point of contact for the 3PL

Leadership Responsibilities

Leadership in this context will constitute influencing decision makers within the group and giving direction to relevant operating units.

The role will require the following qualities:

• Commercially astute, analytically strong strategic problem solver with the ability to the challenge business units in relation to solid compliance
• Ability to generate and sustain great working relationships and networks across the organisation
• Courage to maintain focus and integrity in tough situations
• Excellent communication and influencing skills that facilitate effective networking and relationship building
• A self-starter comfortable operating independently
• Ability and commitment to develop and mentor others
• Comfort in leading key partners across multiple functional areas (e.g. Global Tax, Global Data, Global Supply, Procurement, In-Market Companies, Corporate Relations, Customer Service Teams, Brand Technical Centres, etc.)

Purpose of Role

Provide proactive, high quality specialist global trade & excise governance support to the Regional Head of Global Trade to ensure the effective management of Diageo's global trade affairs within the (X) Region. Apply and implement Global Tax strategies and policies to manage and mitigate key risks. Lead the local in market relationship with Customs and Excise and Customs Brokers.

Top 3-5 Accountabilities

1. Implement global Tax strategies, policies, guidelines and standards for customs & excise management in the Region

2. Provide specialist regional support to the Head of Regional Trade Compliance, and other functions for all customs and excise issues - including but not limited to customs classification, Origin matters, free trade agreements, documentation, excise classification

3. Participate in global trade projects to deliver shareholder value/manage potential exposures

4. Proactively support the delivery of the Regional Customs & Excise and Global Tax objectives aiming to standardise and simplify processes and procedures

5. Keep up to date with customs and excise regulatory changes and best practice; identify risks and opportunities and recommend actions

6. Ensure timely resolution of queries from tax authorities, markets or tax compliance/reporting team

7. Ensure there are the correct licences, approvals in place for any operational changes

8. Pro-active governance on our Customs Brokers - quality review of Import - and Export documentation

Experience / skills required:

• Good experience and working knowledge of customs and excise processes and procedures in a global multinational company
• Experience in dealing with enquiries and audits from customs and/or excise authorities
• Experience in providing domestic and cross border technical advice
• Effective project management and implementation skills

• Good team working and communication skills across diverse cultures
• At least 4 years customs and/ or excise experience with a multinational or customs & excise authority
• Written and verbal communication in English is a must

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, approaches, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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