PAULSON JOSE

• Highly motivated and results-oriented professional with expertise in international trade compliance and operations management support.
• Proven ability to identify and address potential trade compliance violations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in import/export declarations across all 18 APAC sites.
• Skilled in conducting audits, preparing reports, and recommending corrective actions to improve compliance posture.

1. APAC Trade Compliance Audit:

• Conduct monthly, weekly, and daily audits to identify potential trade compliance violations for all APAC countries.
• Analyze customs declarations, invoices, and airway bills for accuracy and adherence to client requirements and customs regulations.
• Focus on key testing attributes like value declaration, customs procedural code (CPC), HS code, tax identification (IOR/EOR), incoterms, country of origin, quantity, and trade tariff extracts.
• Prepare comprehensive audit reports, and present findings to senior management for review and action.
• Recommend and implement corrective actions to address identified compliance gaps.
• Streamlined audit process for improved efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collect documentation from responsible brokers in each country to support testing activities.

2. Inbound and Outbound Warehouse Audit:

• Manage operations within warehouses to establish strong control procedures for client shipments.

3. Conduct 3-way audits for billing, declarations, and inbound activities.

4. Record Retention Testing: Ensure that the contractually agreed record retention requirement is satisfied.

5. Manual Invoice Testing:

• Enhance the accuracy and efficiency of invoice creators through targeted training and support.
• Identify inconsistencies in manual invoice creation based on the client's trade compliance requirements.
• Attributes such as value, including other charges and freight, Incoterm, weight, case ID, etc.

• To ensure that the end customer/company is not conducting business to compromise any government laws that prohibit dealing with parties (Individual and Business Organization) which are sanctioned by Government agencies.
• Screening not only includes the denied parties, but also controlled products, and embargoed or sanctioned countries.

1. US Import Audit.

• Auditing documents that are used to import products to the US, such as CBP 7501, CBP 3461, Commercial Invoice, and Airway Bill.
• Assisting freight forwarders (FedEx).
• Expeditors and UPS, with HTS&ECCN Classification, of particular Products: To Classify Harmonized Tariff schedule codes (HTS) and Export control classification numbers (ECCN).
• Fixing discrepancies between CBP 7501 and commercial invoices.
• Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly reports of errors and reviewed files, and presentation of quarterly volume reports.
• Trainings to new joiners.

2. User Registration.

• Providing access to the user for the use of products after general screening, SPL screening, and embargo checks.
• Global Business partners screening on SAP_GTS environment, reviewing and approving them to download clients' software by adhering to the standard compliance procedure.
• Responding to customer queries and concerns over email.
• Creating daily, weekly, and monthly reports for all the records that received.
• GTS/SAP/Order processing/Order Management
• Releasing the orders that have been placed on pending by systems automatically after doing proper end user and Bill to party screenings.
• Sanction Party Lists (SPL), Denied Party Lists (DPL), screening for embargoed or sanctioned countries.
• Applying licenses to the orders that are pending for license updates.
• Licenses used are DIVR (Diversion risk), EAR (Export Administration Regulations), EPCI (Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative), EUR (European Regulation), and EULC (European Value Based), based on end customers and regions.
• Responding to the partner mails related to Customer and end-user background check to reconfirm 'clear' status as per embargo, RPL, and EPCI norms. End-use bonfire checks; risk analysis is for violations or diversions. Compliance with US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) regulations.
• Preparing daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on the pending order reports.

• Greet the customer, interact with them regarding new offers and privileges.
• Generate my own database of customers.
• Train new joiners regarding process and procedure.
• Reports and Email assistance
• Special Customer-Assisted Services
• Respond to complaints from customers and give after-sales support when requested.
• Decision maker for the current issues and newly executed plans.
• Month-end meeting and training for the team.
• Financial reports.
• Excel