Sr. Analyst, Trade and Customs (Aerospace & Defense)

Your Job

The Sr.

Analyst, Trade and Customs will support U.S.

and Canadian import and export operations, with a primary focus on U.S.

imports involving aerospace, defense, regulated, and controlled products.

This role will help ensure shipments move compliantly and efficiently while supporting classification, country of origin, valuation, tariff applicability, customs documentation, recordkeeping, and audit readiness.

The Sr.

Analyst will work closely with customs brokers, freight forwarders, and internal business partners to resolve trade compliance issues, analyze import activity, and strengthen processes and controls across ADS operations.
Our Team

The Trade and Customs team supports import and export operations across the business, partnering with Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing, Legal, and other functions.

This role will work closely with external customs brokers, freight forwarders, and government authorities to support compliant trade operations in a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment.
What You Will Do


* Support day-to-day U.S.

and Canadian import and export operations, working with customs brokers, freight forwarders, transportation providers, and internal teams to resolve shipment, documentation, and clearance issues.


* Review import transactions and broker documentation for HTS classification, ECCN/Schedule B, country of origin, valuation, Incoterms, marking, PGA requirements, ADD/CVD, Section 301/232, IEEPA, TSCA, and other applicable requirements.


* Support customs clearance for aerospace, defense, regulated, controlled-product, and customer-specific shipments, escalating higher-risk compliance issues when appropriate.


* Support post-entry activities including entry audits, post-summary corrections, protests, corrective actions, CF 28/29 responses, liquidation notices, and documentation for government and internal reviews.


* Maintain trade compliance procedures, SOPs, work instructions, audit files, and recordkeeping documentation supporting import and export compliance and internal controls.


* Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Legal, and other teams to resolve customs holds, product-data gaps, documentation requests, tariff recovery matters, and other trade compliance issues.


* Support broker performance reviews, entry accuracy monitoring, duty-spend analysis, tariff exposure tracking, corrective actions, dashboards, metrics, and management reporting.


* Use SAP GTS, SAP, Glovia, ACE, broker portals, ERP reporting, and other systems to research trade data, monitor transactions, support audit readiness, and identify process improvement opportunities.


* Support special customs programs including FTZ, bonded warehouse, drawback, reconciliation, duty recovery, temporary imports, repairs and returns, and other applicable programs.


* Identify opportunities ...