Customs & Excise Manager – East Africa

Job Description :

Job Title: Customs & Excise Manager – East Africa

About the team:

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

Whether we’re applying our digital capabilities and analytics to advise our business strategy or crafting 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

Purpose

• Manage the Customs and Excise activities in Diageo’s footprint in East Africa, covering Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.
• Implement Customs and Excise strategies and policies in East Africa.

Accountabilities

• Provide specialist support with customs issues in East Africa – for example, product classification disputes (both customs and excise), Customs Valuation and Inter-Company Selling Price (ICSP) reviews.
• Manage Customs and Excise related queries from the customs and excise authorities relating to imported products and raw materials used by East Africa.
• Manage Customs and Excise aspects of international trade projects to deliver shareholder value and manage potentials exposure to the business in East Africa.
• Provide technical support with respect to addressing inefficiencies and driving process improvement within the Customs and Excise arena.
• Recommend and implement changes to optimize processes, systems, policies, and procedures.
• Keep up to date with customs and excise regulatory changes and standard methodology; identify risks and opportunities and recommend actions.
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Key interactions - Internal

• Global Tax partners and business unit leaders – develop and maintain a strong working relationship and stay informed about business priorities and developments
• Global functions –Supply, Legal and Corporate Relations.  Collaborating with these functions to deliver end to end Supply chain efficiency

Key interactions - External

• Customs & Excise authorities – proactive management of the relationship with customs and excise.
• Regulatory authorities coordinating licenses and permits.
  • Providing specialist input to local site excise audits and resultant enquiries
  • Providing documentation as requested
• International and Regional Trade bodies

Critical Capabilities

• Sophisticated customs & excise knowledge
• International trade experience
• Project management and stakeholder communications
• Compliance and ethics mentality

Experience / skills required:

• Experience within a Global Trade or Tax advisory function in a consulting firm or multinational beverage/tobacco manufacturer.
• Data analytics skills (Power Query/BI etc.), ideally with systems experience in SAP or equivalent
• Effective project management and implementation skills
• Great teammate with experience working across diverse cultures
• At least 5 years of customs & excise experience

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.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We offer a comprehensive and competitively benchmarked rewards and benefits package that reflects our commitment to recognizing and valuing our people.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere and crafting 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, attitudes, 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:

Nairobi HQ

Additional Locations :

Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Mwanza

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-03-03