Finance (incl. Tax, Treasury, Accounting, M&A) June 23, 2025 Manager Customs and Foreign Trade [...]

Manager Customs and Foreign Trade Operations EU-1

Finance (incl. Tax, Treasury, Accounting, M&A) Romania, Bucuresti

February

Full time

Permanent

Competitive salary and bonus scheme

Free day to volunteer

About the position

Within the GEA organization, a new EU Center of Customs and Foreign Trade Operations will be established. The aim of this Center is to support customs operations and handling for GEA EU-wide. Therewith, GEA is looking for suitable candidates which will contribute within an expert team to the compliant handling of customs and foreign trade operations within EU.

Your responsibilities and tasks

Your Role:

You will form part of a central European expert team that is collectively responsible for import and export customs clearance as well as for the filing for special procedures (where applicable), preference management and (long-term) supplier declaration handling, customs tariff number and export control classification as well as match-handling of business partner matches on sanction lists.

In this role you will belong to a dedicated group of SAP GTS users.

The applicant will report to the Head of the GCC Customs & Foreign Trade Team, located in the GEA headquarter in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the compliant filing of import and export customs declarations for the EU entities via SAP GTS edition for Hana (e4H)
• Manage customs declarations for special procedures as well as for the rightful closure of said procedures via SAP GTS e4H
• Determination and maintenance of customs tariff numbers and export control classifications with the support of rule-based classification software (Add-on to SAP GTS e4H)
• Requesting and processing (long-term) supplier declarations as well as for issuing (long-term) customer declarations upon request
• Issuing of preferential declaration on invoice/ requesting formal preferential origin documents such as EUR.1/ EUR.MED/ A.TR
• The applicant will be in charge of the preferential calculation/ determination of preferential origin
• License management in case of export licenses needed for export declaration/ depreciation of export licenses
• Determination of US content incorporated in delivered goods (de-minimis calculation)
• Handling of business partner matches on respective sanction lists and definition of real matches (system blockage) or false positives (Good Guy)
• Direct reporting line to Head of GCC Customs & Foreign Trade (Headquarter).
• Responsible for respective archiving and documentation of customs and export control transactions

Your profile and qualifications

Qualifications:

• A terminated logistics apprenticeship or similar relevant customs or foreign trade qualification
• Alternatively IT/ technical background with eagerness to learn about customs and foreign trade processes
• Thorough knowledge of MS office applications
• Motivation to learn about and deep dive into customs processes and continuously compliant customs and export control operations
• Business English fluency/ German language proficiency of advantage
• Respective work ethics such as sense of responsibility, commitment and flexibility

This position offers a gross annual salary of at least 144.000 RON. A market-competitive overpayment is possible depending on professional experience and qualifications.

About GEA

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.