Customs & International Trade - Assistant Manager

About the Role

Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Rank: Assistant Manager

KPMG’s Customs group is a tax practice within the Indirect Tax division that develops and helps implement customs and international trade services for clients in a variety of industries, including the pharmaceutical, textile, automotive, electronics, food/retail distribution and global manufacturing industries. In delivering these trade and customs services, KPMG’s professionals endeavor to add value to clients’ businesses by focusing on duty savings and customs compliance initiatives to facilitate bottom-line cash savings, reduce potential exposure from customs compliance violations, and improve operational efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to managers in handling client assignments
• Review tariff classification
• Review customs valuation
• Review customs and BOI formalities and compliance
• Review customs privileges compliance, import tax planning and excise tax compliance
• Conduct research on local and international trade laws and regulations that may impact clients
• Communicate with trade- and customs-related government authorities to facilitate clients’ work
• Prepare documents using appropriate business terms and technical language

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Legal, Accounting, Economics or related fields
• 4-9 years of working experience in customs, logistics, export & import or international trade field
• Prior experience in drafting tax advice work for global trade and compliance
• Strong communication and presentation capability with ability to compromise and negotiation
• Good command of English (spoken and written)
• Computer literacy, especially Microsoft Office