Senior Customs Analyst

**Hybrid: 02 days of home office (Monday and Friday)**

At General Motors, we have a vision of a world with zero accidents, zero emissions, and zero congestion, and we believe our employees are the driving force behind it. The Global Finance team is essential to achieving our vision through its ability to generate insights that maximize profitability, minimize risk, and pave the way for greater innovation. At General Motors, we value each individual and strive to create a culture of inclusion, integrity, boldness, and innovation.

General Motors' Global Tax and Customs department is a team of approximately 200 people focused primarily on GM's most complex and strategic tax and trade matters. We manage relationships with a variety of external partners who perform many of our day-to-day tax functions. We aspire to be a trusted advisor to both internal partners and external stakeholders, to whom we provide practical and innovative advice directly. To achieve these goals, we strive to empower team members through trust, flexibility, feedback, and career development.

**As a Senior Customs Analyst, you will**:

- Provide complete visibility of customs costs for GM Brazil, supporting monthly/annual closing, budget planning, and the preparation of highly accurate financial reports;
- Maximize the benefits of special regimes (RECOF, Drawback, Ex-Tariff, Temporary Admission), ensuring full compliance;
- Act as the primary liaison with customs brokers and internal partners, guiding import/export transactions, master data quality, and broker performance;
- Lead continuous improvement projects that reduce duty expenditures, enhance free trade agreement (FTA) qualification, and automate processes;
- Monitor and coordinate activities related to import and export flows: Ensure that all import and export operations comply with deadlines and legal and regulatory standards, coordinating the activities and deliveries of the Customs Broker;
- Work with Customs Costs and Finance;
- Control import cost models, tax accruals, and reconciliations used in monthly/quarterly closings and annual budget cycles;
- Prepare financial statements, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses related to customs with data accuracy exceeding 99%;
- Special Regimes and Tax Mitigation;
- Administer RECOF-SPED, Drawback, Ex-Tariff, and similar programs (declarations, benefit monitoring, audits);
- Identify and quantify new FTA or tax suspension opportunities; develop business cases for savings. Master Data and Process Improvement;
- Maintain in-house HS codes, supplier origin, and product catalogs for customs purposes;
- Use Excel (advanced), Power BI/Access, and automation tools to optimize reporting and controls;
- Provide best practice training for cross-functional teams (Finance, Logistics, Taxation, Purchasing, Manufacturing);
- Establish and maintain relationships with internal customers, customs authorities, and other foreign trade stakeholders: Build a strong network to ensure alignment and collaboration across all foreign trade processes **.**




**Additional Job Description**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in International Trade, Accounting, Economics, Logistics or related field.
- Strong hands-on experience in customs or trade compliance, including import and export operations.
- Proven track record with Brazilian special regimes (preferably RECOF) and customs financial controls.
- Advanced Excel plus working knowledge of SAP, Siscomex and data-visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
- Solid grounding in HS classification, FTA rules, valuation and export-control concepts.
- Advanced English; Portuguese native or advanced.

**Preferred**:

- Experience leading project workstreams.
- Familiarity with global ERP trade-automation solutions and SQL reports or other process-simplification platforms.
- Advanced English.

**What Success Looks Like**:

- Month-end customs accruals posted on time and reconcile to actual.
- Special-regime utilization rates and documented savings improve year-over-year.
- Zero critical audit findings; KPIs consistently exceed targets.
- New dashboards and automations cut manual effort by double-digit percentages.

**Why GM Customs Brazil?**

Here you influence both the bottom line and regulatory excellence of a global automaker, collaborate with talented colleagues worldwide, and grow your career in an environment that rewards innovation, integrity and results.

Ready to move the world with us?

Designed for persons that takes initiative to improve and innovation, can manage projects through to completion, and have strong written and oral communication skills.




**About GM**:
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.




**Why Join Us**:
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