Senior Compliance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborating with clients and CBP to address CBPF 28 Requests for Information and CBPF 29 Notices of Action

• Submitting PSCs, tenders of duty, and protests

• Drafting petitions and facilitating the payment of Liquidated Damages and Penalty Cases

• Potentially filing reconciliation entries

• Addressing FTA inquiries (primarily USMCA) and assisting staff with FTA claims

• Advanced HTS classification expertise

• Partnering with CBP and clients to submit prior disclosures

• Nurturing and developing client relationships

• Serving as a compliance resource for Deringer’s various offices and departments

• Composing communications and responding to correspondence

• Ensuring adherence to Deringer-specific policies and procedures based on departmental tasks

• Reviewing the Federal Register, CSMS Messages, and International Trade Publication (ITT) daily, analyzing regulatory changes, and reporting findings to departmental leadership

• Conducting research on binding rulings, summarizing findings, and applying conclusions to inquiries from external and/or internal clients; reporting findings to departmental leadership for further review

• Performing basic legal and regulatory research and presenting findings in a professional manner

• Proactively and promptly coordinating the dissemination of information obtained from customs publications, projects, and research back to operations, including other locations; this involves interrogating Deringer’s systems to identify information needs

• Running ACE reports and generating reports from internal systems, organizing, and presenting data

• Performing calculations, reconciliations, analyzing reports, researching, and tracking and troubleshooting

• Compiling relevant data and assembling statistics and information as directed

• Seeking new sales leads, discussing and promoting the Company’s services to current clients, and promptly forwarding potential leads to the designated person (soft selling)

• Staying informed on regulations, laws, guidelines, and Deringer requirements

• Acting as a resource for internal and external clients

• Serving as a liaison with other departments and external agencies

• Managing confidential and non-routine information

• Facilitating projects of varying scope and size

• Writing or delivering presentations on a wide range of topics

• Resolving issues (e.g., billing, shipment tracking) and addressing customer concerns

• Building relationships with customers

• Performing additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor

• May involve occasional travel (less than 10% of the time)

⛳️ Requirements

• Licensed Customs Broker

• At least 5 years of experience in the customs industry

• Preferred customer service skill set

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Previous technical/compliance experience and language skills are advantageous

• Intermediate or advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office products (e.g., Word, Excel, Access)

• Ability to analyze and summarize data

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Retirement plans

• Paid time off