Compliance Specialist

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Job Summary

A Compliance Specialist takes care of regulatory aspects of all international shipments. They make sure physical deliveries happen on schedule and compliantly. They apply applicable trade compliance rules regulations and policies to manage compliant import/export operations around the world. They manage the logistics and transportation of vendor deliveries. They work with international governmental organizations to ensure imported equipment arrives smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Preshipment research of trade and regulatory requirements for international shipments work with 3rd party vendors
• Check shipping documentation country research Conducts audits on shipping documents and documentation provided by external partners to ensure compliance on all FCPA and Anti Bribery requirements communicates with brokers and other external parties
• Work closely with crossfunctional team members including Legal and Tax to ensure importsexports take place in a compliant manner
• Assist global team members to ensure timely clearance instructions are provided to customs brokers and problem shipments are addressed
• Help process the Move Order Requests MORs which are placed from various warehouses across a number of locations both client and nonclient sites
• Review and ensure that all commercial documents in connection with the MORs are in place and compliant with shipping practices
• Review and approve commercial invoices
• Approve all Trade documents CI Commercial Invoices PL Packing Lists and AWBAirway Bills in 24 business hours
• Approve all Dangerous Goods shipments within 24 business hours
• Manage Order Form entry via internal systems
• Support all Tax and Customs audits in alignment with Legal Regional Team
• Work with Client Trade Compliance team and ThirdParty Logistics Service Providers aka 3PLs to make sure that all international shipments comply with export import regulations
• Complete Due Diligence on all external parties in alignment with Legal requirements
• Monitor and manage all PII and Denied Party Screening requests
• Maintain brokerage performance reports
• Coordinate and resolve or escalate where required inbound international shipments held at customs
• Carry out emerging markets research to determine shipping and compliance regulations in new locations
• Conflict resolution Resolving conflicts that may arise within the team
• Delegation Relying on the skills of each person and distributing tasks accordingly
• Goal setting Determining the goals that members can work toward
• Time management Supervising teammates and ensuring that tasks are completed within the given deadline
• Providing resources Ensuring that team members have the appropriate tools and resources to function effectively
• Stakeholder Management Internal stakeholder and client management to communicate updates and statuses of team activities