Overview
Job Title: Customs Liaison Officer
Job location: Dar es Salaam
Type of Contract: Fixed Term Position
Area of Domain: Logistics, Operations
Job Experience: Minimum 3 Years
The profile of the candidate:
- A bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to business.
- Product expertise.
- Processes for import customs.
Activities:
HSEQ:
– Safety Management System Application.
– Product quality control to ensure that goods meet Tanzanian quality standards as set forth by TBS.
- Wharfage and taxes: Make sure that all fuel taxes, manifest comparisons, and wharfage are completed and paid on schedule to prevent late fees and delays in the evacuation of transit parcels.
- Close monitoring of the transit/transshipment and customs documentation for Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Tanzania-related files for GAPCO and TOTAL, making sure they are accurate and kept up to date.
- Tax forecast, assessment, and payment: Provide Treasury with a monthly tax forecast and update it whenever there are changes. To prevent GTL/TTL packages from being released into another depot, taxes must be assessed and paid in compliance with customs rules. There is no penalty for paying taxes after the deadline.
- Wharfage and Extra Levies: To prevent penalties and delays in the uplift of transit parcels, make sure that manifest comparisons, claims for overpayment fuel taxes, additional tax payments, and wharfage payments are done in accordance with customs procedures and timelines.
- Transit Product Age Report: Monitor every transit parcel closely on the loading limit day. Send the Age report to the supply manager and transit customers every Monday. Request an extension from TRA five days prior to the expiration of the Limit time to prevent localizing the product and causing inconvenience to customers.
- Transit Documentations: Ensure seamless transit loadings by continuously monitoring all transit vehicles and completing documentation on time. This will ensure that validation at the border and bond cancellation are completed on schedule. Share outstanding issues once a month and create an action plan to resolve them.
- Localization: Quick processing of taxes and wharfage; prompt communication with TRA to cancel bonds for localized products.
- Custom Queries: Make sure that all questions pertaining to customs, such as audits, are answered promptly.
- Transport records, correspondence, and inventory Reconciliations: Prompt delivery of the required documentation to the transit customer so they may verify and handle it all (outturn, quality and quantity certificate, loadings summary, pump over reports, etc.,
- At the conclusion of each vessel uplift, make sure that the appropriate reconciliations are done with the transit customers, and give the transit customers the necessary documentation.
- Notice of Intention (NOI): Work in tandem with Depot Managers/Supply and Assistants in Hospitality to guarantee that all NOIs for goods received by Gapco and TOTAL—including Our Hospitality customers—are approved by TRA, received, and appropriately filed for customs purposes.
- Help the administration with any outstanding issues pertaining to the supply sections that can cause a delay in the renewal of various permits, such as the OMC license or the trucks’ pending validation.
- Documents Management: Keep track of all correspondence and documents with the TRA, as well as other areas pertaining to local customs, trading, exports, and transit cargo.
- Attend to all other GTL and TTL customs-related issues.
- Ewura costs (pricing).
- Calculation of demurrage.
- Inventory control for transportation clients.
- Processing of PBPA, Ewura, and Surveyor invoices on DMS.
