Trade Compliance Analyst

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Role Definition

Evaluates trade compliance activities, controls, and risk management practices; supports assessments and reviews designed to ensure compliance with applicable global trade laws and strengthen the effectiveness of trade compliance controls, policies, procedures, and risk mitigation activities.

Responsibilities

• Supports trade compliance assessments, reviews, and assurance activities to evaluate the effectiveness of established policies, procedures, controls, and risk mitigation measures.

• Reviews trade compliance activities, documentation, and transactional data to identify compliance risks, control gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Interacts with business partners to gather information, support assessments, discuss observations, and assist in the development of corrective actions.

• Assists with management of assessment documentation, record-keeping requirements where applicable, corrective action tracking, and preparation of analyses and materials for management review.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

International Trade: Knowledge of the markets, issues, regulations, practices and operations of international trade; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately in diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Works with basic functions and services of international trade.

• Applies international trade knowledge while conducting compliance reviews, assessments, and assurance activities.

• Adheres to export and import regulations as outlined by federal and state regulatory agencies.

• Reviews trade compliance activities to identify potential risks, control weaknesses, and compliance concerns.

• Assesses basic economic and political risks in international trade, e.g. exchange rate risk.

Standard Operating Procedures: Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP); ability to design, implement and evaluate standard operating procedures affecting daily and strategic business operations in order to increase operational efficiency.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Adjusts SOPs according to changes in organizational and industry procedures.

• Tracks deviations from and modifications to existing SOPs in business operations.

• Ensures compliance with industry standards, regulations and policies.

• Assists in establishing a standard operating procedure based on workflow and environment review.

• Reviews the efficiency of standard operating procedures in terms of performance improvement.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.

• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.

• Productively balances speed and accuracy.

• Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.

• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.

• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.

• Uses analytical techniques and available data to identify meaningful patterns, risk indicators, and opportunities for process improvement.

• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.

• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.

• Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.

• Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.

• Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.

• Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

• Assists in evaluating assessment observations, identifying root causes, and supporting development of corrective actions.

• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Collects, validates, and analyzes information from multiple sources to support trade compliance assessments and reviews.

• Analyzes reports and transactional data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential compliance risks.

• Assists in preparing assessment reports, presentations, and management summaries.

• Supports development and maintenance of compliance metrics, reporting tools, and assessment documentation.

• Reviews and verifies information for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.

• Presents findings and supporting analysis in a clear and understandable manner.

Customer Support Policies, Standards and Procedures: Knowledge of the organization's customer support policies, standards and procedures; ability to guide customers on all company interactions.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows standards and procedures that are relevant to one's own function and initiative.

• Provides feedback in order to improve standard procedures.

• Interprets documentation on the policies and standards regarding contact with the customer.

• Contributes to the development and implementation of specific procedures.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties, and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.