Trade Compliance Analyst

National Instruments; Bayan Lepas; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

National Instruments seeks a seasoned Customs and Trade Compliance professional to manage day-to-day LMW customs operations and oversee import/export shipments in line with global trade regulations.

You will coordinate with brokers, handle exemptions and licenses, and ensure timely reporting while supporting various trade modes and compliance programs across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above.
• 5+ years of experience in Customs and Trade Compliance in electronics industry.
• Strong communication and multi-tasking skills.
• Mastery in English and local language.

Responsibilities

• Manage day to day LMW Customs operation with team including GPB application, following up, Exemption list and License renewal and maintenance.
• Oversee the facilitation of import/export shipments in adherence to trade regulations and coordinate with brokers for efficient customer declaration operations.
• Support trade modes such as hand carry, temporary import, ATA Carnet and ensure compliance with local trade regulations and NI’s ethics policies.
• Provide expertise on product valuation, commercial invoice setups, incoterms, and local Customs requirements; answer questions from internal collaborators, suppliers, customers, and others.
• Support export compliance and STA processes based on STA Act and other applicable regulations, including order screening and hold review.

Skills

English proficiency

Local language proficiency

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Oracle ERP

Power BI

Job description

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In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

Manage day to day LMW Customs operation with team including GPB application, following up, Exemption list and License (LMW, VAA) renewal and maintenance, ensures timely customs reports submission.

Oversee the facilitation of import/export shipments in adherence to trade regulations. Independently coordinate with brokers to ensure efficient customer declaration operations.

Support special trade modes such as hand carry, temporary import, ATA Carnet and so on to ensure compliance with all applicable trade compliance regulations, including local trade regulations pertaining to import and export, anti-bribery regulations, as well as NI’s code of ethics policies

Knowledge of the key trade elements, such as product valuation, commercial invoice setups, incoterms, and local Customs requirements. Providing expertise to answer questions from internal collaborators, suppliers, customers, and others.

Support the export compliance and STA process based on the STA Act and other applicable regulations, include the order screening, hold review and release by using the automatic export screening tool

Manage the interaction with local customs/MITI authorities and other applicable governmental agencies and officials on behalf of NI Successfully, handle the external/internal audit once required

Who You Are:

Broker management, monitoring their execution based on pre-determined KPIs and drive improvements

Resolves challenging problems and drives central initiatives proactively to improve operational processes and minimize potential risks.

Build and implement training programs to ensure collaborators, customers, partners, and team members have the necessary compliance knowledge and regularly updated.

Coach junior team members to drive the high performance of team

For This Role, You Will Need:

Bachelor’s degree or above

5+years of experience in a Customs and Trade Compliance in electronic related industry.

Mastery in English and local language

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

Vast knowledge in Trade regulations including Customs Act 1967 regulations, Licensed Manufacturing Warehouse (LMW) & SST Act, STA Act and so on

Value added activity knowledge such as repair, service, calibration, subcontracting, IPC, RDC would be a preference.

Working experience of using ERP system such as Oracle system

Strong communication and multi-tasking skills

Good analysis and problem-solving skills

Willingness to travel and work with partners across time zone for operations alignment and drive improvement plan.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office skills (Adv Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Exposure to Data Analytics and Reporting tools (Power BI and Etc) will be an added advantage.