Finance assistant – import / export activities

For completing our logistics team in Bucharest headquarters, we are looking for:

Finance assistant – import / export activities

As a Finance assistant with a focus on customs activities you will work as part of the Franchise team with a direct reporting line to the Finance Director and a dotted reporting line to the Franchise team in the Head Office in Germany. You will be involved in ensuring timely availability of proper documentation, evidence and archiving of customs transactions (mainly export) which are driven by the Group operations through the local warehouse. You will also visit local state authorities offices to validate the export documentation and liaise with the relevant international Customers/Suppliers with regard to such documentation. You will be expected to gain/maintain a proper up-to-date understanding of customs transactions, documentation requirements and compliance.

Responsibilities:
• Management of the process flow of internal and external documents referring to import-export processes of Deichmann, in order to support timely operations
• Timely preparation of the complete sets of documents required for export operations
• Visit local state authorities offices to validate the export documentation / obtain relevant certificates of origin
• Collection, indexation, and archiving of the registers and supporting documents for the relevant activities (import/export; : certificates of origin, import documentation, export documentation, declarations etc.)
• Correct and complete records both in the computer system and in relevant registers and the documentation Archives
• Communication with business partners, mainly on operative topics (Sending Statements of account to the customers
• Solving/coordinating the resolution of any problems related to the documentation of goods imports and exports (along with the carriers/customs commissioners, suppliers and customs operators, State institutions etc;)
• Works in close collaboration with all the departments (logistics, purchasing, warehouse, transport, etc.) and with the logistics suppliers and customs agents
• Periodic and/or ad hoc reports (. delivery, transport, customs), issued to management and/or various stakeholders in the company/Group
• Participate in projects and reports development in the financial/logistic areas
• Submits the Fund Statement to the Environmental Fund Authority

Experience and qualifications:
• Higher education
• English or German knowledge – fluent (German is considered a strong advantage)
• Advanced PC Operating Skills (MS Office, advanced Excel level)
• Good understanding of logistics and transport processes
• Experience with Customs (export) is considered an additional plus

Profile:
• Accountable, serious, team player
• Good communication capabilities
• Organized person with a capacity to set priorities, multitasking
• Positive and proactive attitude
• Ability to work with deadlines and under stress

We offer:
• Attractive salary package
• Work in a young and dynamic team
• Participation in trainings organized by the company
• Stable workplace in a successful international company

If you think you are the right candidate for this position, please send your full application to the Deichmann career platform.

The DEICHMANN Group is Europe's largest shoe retailer. We are represented in 25 European countries and the US and we employ around 40,600 people in over 4,000 stores . Through international growth, we are continuously expanding our marketplace position. High quality shoes at competitive prices - we deliver this vision of service to our customers through global, direct purchasing, flat hierarchies, teamwork and a people-centered corporate culture. In the summer of 2007 Deichmann opened its first subsidiary in Romania. Currently the Romanian Retail has over 96 stores.

In 2017 Deichmann established a Logistics Company in Romania in support of the Romanian retail business and of the continuous development requirements of the Group in the regional markets and beyond. Our expansion continues, and you can be part of our success story!