Customs & Excise Manager based in Trieste

British American Tobacco Italy has an exciting opportunity for a Customs and Excise Manager in Trieste

BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow by Building a Smokeless World.

To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to join us on this journey Tomorrow can’t wait, let’s shape it together

Annual Gross Salary Pay Range 56.300 - 70.434 € under B2-A3 Chemical-Pharmaceutical CLA level.

The Italy Customs and Excise Manager is accountable for customs and excise compliance matters and expectation to deliver all related external Indirect Tax compliance matters. This includes ensuring that a framework of controls, processes and governance is in place and implemented such that BAT's operations are conducted in compliance with indirect taxes laws and regulations.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Oversight/monitoring of customs and excise classification, licensing, supporting documentation and records, filing of customs and excise returns/declarations and timely payment of customs and excise duties due (while increasing cash flow efficiency);
• Perform checks, reviews and audits on the execution of tax policies, guidelines and standards implementation, including (but not limited to) supervising performance metrics for technical compliance in Indirect taxes, and ensuring post-entry or declaration review of customs and excise formalities are completed and reviewed;
• Ensure delivery of all internal indirect taxes reporting requirements to aid delivery of compliance with SOx (relevant market/s), and internal and external destruction and waste reporting requirements (factory markets);
• Maintain good working relationship with local tax, customs and excise authorities;
• Support the Area Head in leading customs and excise audits in the market/s. Lead all routine tax, customs and excise authority enquiries/requests for information.
• Lead third-party partners effectively to ensure their services follow tax regulations. Examples include customs brokers, logistics partners, and warehousing companies.
• Support assessment of customs and excise technology requirements, including ERP capabilities, and deployment of solutions and tools
• Provide specialist input into considerations of indirect tax compliance and risk matters; Responsible for identifying indirect taxes law changes and assessing the impact; Provide proactive support to the Business about customs and excise. This includes supporting the development and roll out of New Categories business models and advising the business on the customs and excise risks, implications and compliance requirements of projects such as route-to-market optimization, new product introductions, etc.
• Lead and report indirect tax risk, develop and deploy training to the business to aid in delivery of indirect taxes compliance and risk management; See opportunities and drive continuous improvement, challenging the status quo and oversight and management of external advisors;
• Act as strong enforcer of ‘Do the Right Thing’; Ensure implementation of required instructions to the business from the indirect tax function (whether at global, Area or local level) to run customs and excise compliance and governance; the continued professional development by keeping up to date with tax law proposals and changes, and educating team and other BAT colleagues.

What are we looking for?

• Degree-educated with professional accountancy/legal and/or tax qualifications;
• Minimum of 5 years’ tax experience in the ‘big 4’ accounting firms, other equivalent multi-national organizations, or customs and excise authority, or relevant supply chain role;
• Experience of working with tax authorities, running tax audits and defending tax positions;
• Excellent knowledge of local customs and excise laws and regulations; customs and excise technical, accounting and compliance knowledge;
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing and supply chain environments;
• Excellent partnership abilities and capability to build and manage relationships with tax authorities;
• Ability to effectively lead third-party partners in the delivery of their services in a tax compliant fashion (e.g. third-party customs clearing agents/brokers, logistics partners, warehousing companies, etc. who handle BAT’s excise goods);
• A thorough understanding and knowledge of relevant finance tools and systems and the ability to balance tax technical and commercial priorities;
• Good communication skills, assertiveness and drive;
• Excellent project- and time-management skills and ability to work and keep to tight deadlines;
• General knowledge of the SAP software package;

What we offer you?

• We offer a market leading annual per