Registrar with a Mayfair-based Gallery
Salary/Rate:Salary: c.£40,000-50,000 p/a
Job type:Full-Time
Town/City:London
Sector:Art Galleries and Dealers
Level:Entry (0-5 years)
Set Up:Onsite
Post Date:24.02.26
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About the Role
Essential requirements:
- Several years’ experience in shipping, customs paperwork and export/import license applications from European countries and the US.
- In depth understanding of AML requirements.
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Customs and shipping:
- Import and export of all objects, for purchases, sales and fairs. All associated licenses and documents.
- Customs paperwork, manage Temporary Admission and Bonded Warehouse
- iCustoms inputs for TA-W / W-TA / TA-HU transfers
- UL export license applications
- Track and manage all purchases by the gallery
- Ensure all objects arrive at the gallery
- Ensuring safe receipt of all paperwork and objects
- Managing the relationship with the selected shipping agent, including the gallery's objects held there
Finances:
- Generate all invoices and send them to clients.
- Ensure invoices are settled and Directors are kept abreast of any issues.
- Liaising with the bookkeeper on all financial activity, especially purchases and sales, and budgeting
- Insurance (art fairs, off-site and onsite)
- Liaising with the client manager
- Petty cash, foreign currency management, and reconciliation
- Statement of accounts and debt chasing
- Aware of tax in relevant countries UK & EU VAT, US Sales Tax
- AML implementation and staying abreast of changes
- Drafting and maintaining consignment agreements and loans
Database management for:
- Shipping info, license info
Secretarial work:
- Keeping weekly minutes and a ledger
Object management
- Registrar
- In-house packing and crating
Salary: c.£40,000-50,000 p/a
Monday to Friday (9am -6pm), based at the gallery. On occasion will be required to work at art fairs abroad, and to work over weekends in the UK and abroad when required for art fairs/exhibitions, for which working from home days to be given in lieu at the discretion of the Directors.
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