Customs&Excise Analyst

Job Description :

Job Title: Customs&Excise Analyst

Location: Glasgow

Contract: permanent, part-time (up to 25 hours)

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks

company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the role

• As a member of the Duty Team, working closely with the Head of UK Duty and External officers from HMRC providing Assurance and Compliance for all Diageo UK locations.
• This role is to provide expert knowledge and solutions for all UK locations in all areas of Customs & Excise. Protect Diageo’s reputation and drive the strategic goals for our “Destination “
• The complexity involved in this role, will support compliance of Beer & Spirits production as well as external distribution centres across the UK.
• The Importation and Exportation of finished goods and raw materials.
• The role will be working closely with all the Finished Product Warehouses in the UK to ensure timely and accurate reporting and payment of Diageo’s ongoing UK duty liabilities.
• This will range from Importing / Exporting, Distillation and Excise Issues. Provide guidance for UK Excise legislation. The role will also support projects related to HMRC changes for SAP and Cincom.
• Support locations on new / amending warehousing approvals or licences.
• Conduct analysis on Import / Export data
• To ensure correct reporting of duty liability to HMRC for the UK business through effective controls and reports.
• Support of training and Communications to sites and supply offices relating to new and amended legislation.

Role Responsibilities

• Recognised as an Expert for HMRC compliance, providing accurate information and guidance in a timely manner

• Ensure that knowledge for current and future HMRC legislation is in place

• Management of HMRC deferment accounts and liaising with relevant stakeholders as necessary. Main stakeholders being ITT,HM Revenue and Customs, Diageo UK warehouses

• Accurate and timely reporting and payment to HMRC. This will include the daily monitoring of transactions being processed by 3rd Party Logistics warehouses and Runcorn and receipt of copies of all daily W5D’s from UK warehouses.
• Reconciliation and completion of the Runcorn monthly Beer Duty Return to HMRC submission standard. (Monthly amount payable c. £8m)

Experience / skills required

• Graduate or HND calibre ideally in Law or Logistics.
• 3 -5 years experience in spirits industry essential.
• Experience in Importation / Exportation or Shipping would be preferred.
• Sound knowledge of HMRC Legislation required.
• Experience in dealing with HMRC officers would be an advantage.
• Training and Presentation skills.
• Knowledge of HMRC duty reporting requirements and some knowledge of UK VAT reporting requirements advantageous.
• Ability to combine commercial experience, business acumen and instinct with analytical rigour and sound problem solving skills.

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement-

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next

level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Onyx, Glasgow

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-09-30