Importation Associate

CREA’s mission is to power brand through digital commerce to reach the booming, digital savvy, Millennial and Gen Z consumers in Southeast Asia. The e-commerce business model is evolving fast. Today simply knowing how to list, ship and manage digital payments is not enough to differentiate brand online.

At CREA, our objective is to build the most relevant Millennial and Gen Z beauty, fashion, and lifestyle brand portfolio in South East Asia, leveraging on a growing multi-billion dollar market demand.

CREA has quickly become the number one player in the beauty and fashion digital sales space, empowering our teams through in-house technology and experts from across industries.

**You will lead importation, customs and logistics operational support to all relative CREA business units, across SEA core markets. This includes setting of guidelines, providing assistance and advice to the business, in the support of import and export activities.**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Implements trade compliance strategies, policies, guidelines, and standards for customs and excise management in SEA.
- Manage day to day customs declaration operation, import/export license, determine HS codes, implement internal controls, excise tax declaration and documentations requirement.
- Proactively support the delivery of the importation objectives aiming to standardize and simplify processes and procedures.
- Provide specialist regional support to the Principal Head and other functions for all customs and excise issues.
- Keep up to date with customs and excise regulatory changes and best practice, interpretate government regulations into daily activities, identify risks and opportunities, analyze impacts and recommend solutions.
- Ensure timely resolution of queries from customs/tax/excise authorities, markets. Deal with official customs audits carried out in the markets which require regional / global support; be prepared to liaise with Customs Authorities where necessary.
- Support Principal Head and importation team in identifying and delivering local projects focused on cost reduction and/or cost avoidance.
- Review tariff classification, customs valuation, customs and BOI formalities and compliance, customs privileges compliance, import tax planning and excise tax compliance.
- Conduct research on local and international trade laws and regulations that may have an impact to the business.
- Communicate with trade & customs-related government authorities in order to facilitate effective and efficient workflow.
- Prepare documents by using appropriate business terms and technical language.

**QUALIFICATION**:

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Legal, Accounting, Economics or related fields.
- Working experience in customs, logistics, export & import or international trade field is a plus.
- Strong communication and presentation capability with ability to compromise and negotiation.
- Good command of English
- Computer literacy especially Microsoft Office

Attractive remuneration and good career development opportunities awaits you if you have what we are looking for.

CREA is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. CREA is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age.