Associate 1 – Trade & Customs
KPMG — Hyderabad, Telangana
₹3–7 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time
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Quick answer: A delivery-centre job in Hyderabad reviewing customs data and entry documents for global KPMG clients: HS classification, FTA qualification, restricted-party screening and post-entry reviews. A BE, BSc or BCom all get you in the door.
From KPMG's job posting
Team Overview
The Tax Global Delivery Network (GDN) works closely with KPMG’s Global Tax leaders to translate business requirements into a clear global delivery strategy for delivery centers that supports the needs of global KPMG solutions in Tax. It also creates and operates an interoperable, seamlessly integrated network of Global Delivery Centers to enable globally consistent delivery.
Designation
Associate 1
Full-time
As we scale and build out the center, we are looking for an Associate 1 to assist with day-to-day trade compliance functions for the Global Trade and Customs (GTC) Managed Services solution. As part of the team, your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- Process and review data related to Trade & Customs operations
- Conduct research and collect product engineering and manufacturing specifications
- Assist with record keeping and electronic file maintenance, using internal retention databases
- Review and audit transactional documents related to customs entries
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Should be self-driven and enthusiastic, excel professionally and has accountability of the work completed.
- The employee should take direction from leads in completing tasks and assignments. With increased experience, takes ownership and delivers a high standard of own work.
- Actively seeks out work from more senior team members and begins to execute defined activities.
- Begins to build knowledge of the business and reports to Assistant Manager/Manager.
- Primary responsibilities vary by workflows/clients and may include HS classification, FTA Qualification/Solicitation, Restricted- Party Screening, Post-Entry Reviews and other trade compliance activities.
- The employee should process and review data related to Trade & Customs operations, conducts research and collects product engineering and manufacturing specifications, assists with record keeping and electronic file maintenance by using internal retention databases, reviews and audits transactional documents related to customs entries, and performs other duties as assigned.
- The employee may also get involved with ad-hoc projects to improve the understanding of Trade Compliance processes.
- It is also expected that the associate delivers timely and quality services that meet or exceed the expectations of the client and team manager.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science/Commerce degree from accredited college or university. Master’s degree can also be considered.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suit Applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Preferred Skills
- Ability to work individually and in a team environment
- Strong commitment, ability to multi-task and be a team player
- Dedicated to superior client service
Behavioral / team skills
- Work collaboratively with the clients and deliver quality services by enforcing quality and KPMG standards.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
- Flexibility to work across the different business lines like HTS, FTA, PER, RPS and other adhoc trade compliance tasks based on requirements.
- Completes tasks and deliverables to a high standard as part of client engagements - working to an agreed plan, budget, and quality
- Undertakes professional qualification and technical training within required timescale(where applicable) and builds on professional qualification by undertaking relevant functional or sector specific training
- Escalates risks and issues beyond own experience or skill set.
- Follow all the engagement guidelines promptly and avoid client escalations. Provide updates on process issues/changes to team members
- Accurately charges time to Engagement codes to see true value of work delivered.
- Meets firm deadlines during Performance Development cycles, including seeking quality feedback, setting goals, providing input into Engagement/project reviews and having regular conversations with Performance Manager
- Completes all mandatory and regulatory training required by member firm by the due date
- Achieves personalized targets set locally by the organization.
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HireSetu's note
Any of three degrees, one core ability
KPMG will take a Bachelor of Engineering, a BSc or a BCom here, so the filter is not your branch. The work needs someone who can read a product's engineering and manufacturing specification and pull out what actually decides its customs classification: what it's made of, what it does, how it's built. An engineering background gives you a head start on that. A commerce degree gives you the documentation and record-keeping side. Both are useful, neither is enough alone.
Learn what HS classification, FTA qualification, restricted-party screening and post-entry review mean in practice before you sit down for an interview. Those four are the actual job, whatever the responsibilities list says about ad-hoc projects.
The pace is set by client turnaround
Picture the day built from queues: entry documents to audit, retention files to update, research requests to close. Time gets charged to engagement codes, so your hours are visible and tracked against a budget. That's standard for a managed-services centre, and it rewards people who finish cleanly and raise problems early.
The clients sit in other time zones. Shift timings are worth pinning down on the call, because global delivery work can mean evenings that overlap with the US or UK.
Classification skills travel
HS classification and FTA work are the two things here that hiring managers outside KPMG recognise. Importers, manufacturers and customs brokers all need people who can classify a product correctly and defend the call when it's challenged. A couple of years doing that across product categories is a portable qualification, and it's harder to build in a general tax role.
Restricted-party screening and post-entry review experience is thinner on the market, so track which workflows you handle and at what volume. That detail is what makes the next move easy.
Drafted with AI from KPMG's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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