Assistant Customs Operations Coordinator
- Job ID
- Job ID 75707
- Team
- Team Finance
- Location
- Location Leicester
- Salary
- Salary £26,000 - £28,000
- Posting Date
- Posting Date 19/05/2026
- Apply Before
- Apply Before 02/06/2026
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Summary
The Role:
We are looking for a meticulous Assistant Customs Operations Coordinator to safeguard our international supply chain. Working as part of our busy Finance Customs team, you will become the technical lead for our HMRC reporting obligations, ensuring that every import and export declaration is processed with precision and speed using the Customs duty management system. Furthermore, you will support the team in project based work, responding to changes in the regulatory and commercial environments.
With a strong focus on ‘data entry’ this is a great opportunity for someone looking to start their career in the Finance function of a FTSE 100 PLC
What You Will Do:
- Drive Compliance: Manage the end-to-end declaration process, validating customs codes, VAT, and preferential duty to ensure all legal requirements are fulfilled with precision.
- Technical Classification: Oversee item classification and tariff data maintenance in accordance with HMRC guidelines.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee customs warehouse removals and maintain accurate import registers so that every single shipment is accounted for.
- Collaborate and Solve: Act as a key point of contact for colleagues, freight forwarders, and HMRC, resolving queries and providing clear clearance instructions.
- Support Evolution: Contribute to standard operating procedures and support systems testing as our regulatory and business environments evolve.
What You Will Bring
- Organisation: Individuals with excellent planning skills who can manage their own workload and comfortably meet regulatory and commercial deadlines.
- Attention to detail: Maintaining sharp attention to detail ensures our data is accurate, our processes are compliant, and our international supply chain continues to run smoothly
- Analytical Thinking: People who enjoy working with data, possess strong IT literacy (including Microsoft Office and Google Sheets), and hold a sharp eye for detail.
- Collaborative Communicators: Team players who are ready to support colleagues and communicate with clarity and respect.
- Systems: While experience with HMRC customs procedures or Duty Management Systems (like Ricardo-CMUK) is a plus, we are fully ready to support your development and teach you the systems.
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Benefits
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
What's Next?
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Team Overview
Finance is where we turn ambition into action. This team protects value, funds growth, and gives leaders timely insight. From reporting to managing risk, your work keeps decisions sharp, ensuring the business stays on course and ready to take on the next big challenge.
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