Analyst, Global Trade Compliance

KLA; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

KLA's Legal Compliance Organization (LCO) in Chennai is seeking a detail‑oriented trade compliance professional to lead global export/import controls and related documentation. You will partner with cross‑functional teams to ensure policy alignment, risk mitigation, and audit readiness across regions.

Key duties include reviewing HTS/ECCN classifications, licensing assessments, sanctions considerations, and improving SOPs, controls and reporting dashboards using SAP GTS, Power BI and related

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field with 5+ years in global trade compliance or export controls.
• Hands-on experience with HTS/ECCN classification, export control blocks and SPL screening.
• Strong knowledge of EAR, sanctions controls and license requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead global trade compliance operational support across regions and export controls.
• Review documentation, country of origin, and customs data for compliance.
• Support license assessments, sanctions considerations, and escalations.
• Coordinate with brokers, logistics, and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Own reporting controls, SLA metrics, and continuous improvement actions.
• Develop SOPs, training materials, and governance documentation.

Skills

Global trade compliance

SAP GTS

Fiori

Power BI

SharePoint

Excel

LCO collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

SAP GTS

Fiori

Power BI

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale—faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology.

Group/Division

The Legal Compliance Organization (LCO) provides legal guidance to further KLA’s strategic objectives and protect and preserve the company’s legal, ethical and financial integrity and reputation. Drawing on expertise in corporate law, commercial law, employment law, ethics and compliance, and intellectual property, the LCO offers strategic legal counsel that is informed by a clear understanding of the company’s business objectives and knowledge of the laws and regulations relevant to the business worldwide.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead global trade compliance operational support across all regions, including export control blocks, restricted party screening escalations, HTS/ECCN classification, order release, shared inbox support, broker inquiries, and escalations.
• Review and validate import/export documentation, commercial invoice data, country of origin, customs value, part descriptions, shipment information, and related data required for compliant customs and export activity.
• Support U.S. and global export control reviews, including block resolution, ECCN validation, SPL screening escalations, license requirement assessment, sanctions/embargo considerations, and escalation of higher-risk transactions.
• Coordinate with customs brokers, freight forwarders, logistics, procurement, requestors, and regional stakeholders to resolve holds, missing documentation, classification questions, shipment delays, and urgent compliance requests.
• Own operational reporting controls, including SLA performance, request volumes, cycle time, aging, screening escalation activity, backlog, quality metrics, bottlenecks, and continuous improvement actions.
• Improve SOPs, work instructions, classification guidance, escalation procedures, training materials, governance documentation, and operating routines to strengthen process discipline and audit readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in semiconductor, electronics, advanced manufacturing, shared services, or high-volume trade compliance operations.
• Experience with SAP, SAP GTS, Fiori, trade management systems, ServiceNow, Power BI, SharePoint, Excel, or similar tools.
• Ability to build trackers, dashboards, metrics, reporting controls, and exception reports; broker management, import audits, recordkeeping, process standardization, and LCB/CCS/CES certification preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; 5+ years of experience in global trade compliance, import/export operations, customs compliance, or export controls.
• Hands‑on experience with HTS/ECCN classification, export control blocks, SPL screening, customs documentation, valuation, country of origin, and shipment release requirements.
• Strong knowledge of EAR, sanctions controls, license requirements, controlled technology considerations, operational queues, escalations, data review, stakeholder communication, and timely follow‑through.

About KLA

We provide advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics that make electronics possible, tackling complex challenges. From electron and photon optics to machine learning and data analytics, we seek perfection at the most fundamental level of matter in the universe. If you want to make electronics that push industries forward and make the world a better place, join us.

Use of AI Statement

At KLA, our interviews seek to understand your individual skills, problem-solving approach and authentic thinking. To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation, the use of AI, recording tools or other technologies to generate, suggest or provide responses during interviews—whether virtual or in person—is not permitted unless explicitly approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation or invited by the interviewer. Use of these tools may interfere with our ability to evaluate your individual qualifications and affect your candidacy. KLA is committed to advancing innovation through responsible AI, and we value candidates who share this mindset.

We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.