South Africa: Clearing and Customs Specialist posted by AtripleA recruitment & temps

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Clearing and Customs Specialist to join our team at AtripleA recruitment & temps. The successful candidate will assist the Group Finance Executive with financial matters, monthly reconciliations, and ensure the efficient processing of all customs and duties clearance. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual with experience in procurement and customs clearing.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and send out accurate purchase orders.
• Processing of Goods Received Notes (GRV’s) once stock is received.
• Ensure goods received are checked and loaded timeously on the system.
• Calculation of landed cost on imports and accurate processing in Pastel.
• Resolving any differences between our external warehouse and Pastel daily.
• Work closely with clearing and forwarding agents for timeous deliveries of imports and exports.
• Notify suppliers of short deliveries and/or faulty stock and arrange credits.
• Calculate Recommended Retail Price in line with required GPs.
• Track due dates VS suppliers (Follow up with suppliers on ETAs on all open POs).
• Complete import documents, including customs inspections when needed.
• Ensure new product codes are created and maintained on the system and that pricing is always accurate and approved by finance.
• Manage and ensure the most efficient processing of all customs and duties clearance.
• Streamline business supplier ordering to be as efficient and cost effective as possible.
• Handle supplier returns and supplier warranties.
• Handle all supplier relationships and ensure they stick to commercial arrangements.
• Create and build new suppliers’ relationships.
• Monitor and analyze the company’s buying and sales statistics to maintain a strong sell-through rate.
• Reporting on sales Data vs supply data.
• Preparing of annual/bi-annual bulk orders and presentation to management.
• Ensuring accuracy of SKU data in Pastel (Product descriptions, groups, categories, etc.).
• Manage all recommended selling prices vs competitors.
• Handle all clearance, aged items to put on promotion to clear.
• Handle all bulk clearances of all stock when requested to clear stock.
• Report on forecasted orders and cash flow requirement, and track stock on hand to meet cash flow on due dates on Purchase orders.

Requirements

• Matric
• Tertiary or equivalent qualification advantageous
• Clean ITC check
• Clean criminal check
• Signing of the company’s confidentiality agreement
• Sage Pastel Evolution experience preferred
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel
• At least 5 years’ experience in Procurement and Customs clearing

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary details not specified.