Finance Officer

My client is a small to medium-size company within a multinational group. They help companies and individuals to do customs clearance of goods on import and export, and provide other services in logistics. Their busy and friendly accounting department is undergoing a project to implement better ways of follow-up and account for VAT and Duties, collected by customs on importing goods by company s clients. They are looking for a bright, experienced individual with good analytical, reconciliation and job ownership skills to help with this task. The office is based near Heathrow Airport next to Hatton Cross underground station The role responsibilities will include processing (or supervision over processing) HMRC records of movements on CDS (Customs Declaration Service) accounts opened by HMRC for the company. Reports are requested from HMRC monthly and show monthly movements of amounts taken out by HMRC on goods clearance as well as funds contributed to the account by the company itself and company s clients as pools (deposits) for future customs clearances. HMRC records shall be processed and compared with the company records, to ensure amounts paid out on clearance are financed by clients or recovered from clients where the company uses their own funds to pay for customs clearance. Any discrepancies when comparing HMRC and the company records shall be resolved for different types of clients. At the end of reporting period the CDS account balance and it s breakdown by ..... full job details .....