Duty Finalization Agent
Columbia, SC (USA)
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Post Date: 10/11/09 Company: DHL Global Forwarding
Compensation: not given Contact:
Job Type: Full Time Phone:
Education: High School / GED Fax:
Experience: 2 - 5 years Mailing Address:
Travel: Negligible
Reference: #20886

Company Profile:
DHL Global Forwarding manages the flow of goods and information across a customer's global supply chain utilizing air/ocean/ground transportation, customs brokerage services, and dedicated warehousing/distribution centers. We are part of Deutsche Post DHL, the world's leading logistics provider with operations in over 220 countries. Visit our career site on the web.

Job Description:
We have an outstanding career opportunity at our newly centralized, 24/7 state-of-the-art Customs Brokerage Processing Center in Columbia, South Carolina for a Duty Finalization Agent. Relocation assistance is available.

Responsibilities for this role include:
• Responsible for the timely payment of duties for all transactions processed
• Generating preliminary statements
• Ensuring all individual transactions that are due for the day are on the statement; Identifying all individual transactions that are non statement; identifying method of payment per statement
• Reconciling each statement and non statement transaction ensuring duty match between entry summary, billing, payment and ABI
• Finalizing statement or obtain IOR authorization
• Authorizing payment or cut check
• Obtaining and recording date time stamped documents showing proof of submission to US Customs
• Providing record keeping documents as required
• Validate that all activities occurred are balanced


Job Requirements:
Skills Required:
• Requires intermediate accounting background
• basic level MS Office suite including Word and Excel
• good writing & organizational skills
• basic level knowledge of the regulations surrounding the payment of duty to US Customs
• HS diploma or GED required
• Specialized skill training/certification may be required
• Generally 1-3 years of experience in area of responsibility

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