Finance Manager - Customs & Excise Compliance

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About The Role

Reporting to the Head of Tax, Morrisons is recruiting a Customs and Excise Manager to manage of all aspects of Customs and Excise compliance.

You'll be responsible for:

• Management of Customs and Excise compliance for imports and exports across the Morrisons Group. This includes supporting retail, wholesale, and manufacturing functions across the group
• Management of customs classification process of products for import/export, identification of risks, opportunities and entry amendments
• Business partnering our internal commercial, retail, wholesale, supply chain and logistics operational teams to ensure Customs and Excise compliance;
• Working closely with various Customs agents to ensure goods are imported and exported compliantly
• Ensuring the accuracy of the accrual and reconciliation of all duties.
• Being the first point of contact for HMRC on all Customs and Excise related matters including audits
• Ensuring that the business meets its obligations in respect of the Authorised Economic Operator and Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Schemes.
• Proactively researching regulation changes on excise, customs and anti-dumping duties that could impact or influence business stakeholders activities and provide advice in a timely manner
• Training and coaching commercial colleagues on the impact of Customs and Excise legislation;
• Line management of a small team of 1-2 colleagues

About You

• Significant experience of working in an imports/exports environment.
• 5 years minimum experience of customs/excise protocols and procedures
• Management of excise and customs within a large retail environment preferred but not essential Ability to translate complex tax legislation into easily understood requirements.
• Strong planning and organisational skills to prioritise own work and deadlines alongside the needs of the wider team and business
• Excellent written communication and planning skills
• An ability to deliver in a complex, fast paced environment
• Excellent analytical thinking and numerical skills
• A proven track record of identifying and leading process improvements

About The Team

About Us Description:

With an eye on the future and our finger on the pulse of what's going on in our business, we partner with all of our teams and play a big part in the big decisions.

We support change programmes and capital expenditure projects. We provide business leaders with vital management information and analysis. As well as looking after our cash, accounts and working capital, we also control costs, produce forecasts, deliver insight and manage supplier reporting and supplier payments. There's never a dull moment in our Finance team.

About The Company

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you'll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you'll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We're also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we've lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We'd love to meet you...

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

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