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Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.
The primary role of this position will be to assist the Axcelis Trade Compliance department in all export and import compliance areas.
- Assist in developing, implementing, and maintaining programs, policies, and procedures to ensure companywide compliance with regulations and corporate policy.
- Conduct a thorough Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Supplier (KYS) screening processes, which involves researching, analyzing, verifying backgrounds and conducting Restricted Party Screening, evaluating findings, and assessing evidence for factual and legal sufficiency.
- Attain and apply knowledge of business systems and control systems that house the import and export of relevant data related to compliance activities
- Assist in designing export controls risk assessment outline to illustrate the nature and severity of vulnerabilities and develop monthly metrics, key performance indicators, and key risk indicators based on the compliance assessments.
- Manage the daily export and import transactional tasks; assume the watchlist screening responsibilities to ensure that Axcelis partners, customers, vendors, etc., are appropriately screened for Denied Persons and Entities, restricted end-uses, antiboycott language, diversion, etc.
- Respond to internal and external customer inquiries promptly and efficiently.
- Monitor changes in the export controls and sanctions, evaluate their impacts on the company, and stay current on US Customs and PGA regulation changes, ensuring ongoing compliance.
- Streamline import and export compliance processes in the ERP system. Participate in digitization and automation initiatives, identify opportunities for process improvement, and drive innovation.
- Manage export recordkeeping process in compliance with guidelines set forth by regulations and Axcelis Technologies policy.
- Conducts internal audit and assessment of business activities for adherence to import/export procedures throughout the business lifecycle, including review of new products and classification/characterization of commodities through final delivery to the customer.
- Identify and analyze causes of international and domestic compliance issues and gaps and generate management recommendations.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including Logistics, Supply Chain, Sales, IT, and Engineering, to develop and execute defined procedures
- As the trade compliance manager requires, provide training on various compliance topics to individuals and functional groups.
- Act as a backup to the compliance auditor, conduct thorough customs entry audits to identify discrepancies and comply with relevant regulations.
Required Education and Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.
- Minimum of 1-year compliance experience.
- Experience with MS Office, Power BI, and other digital reporting tools.
- Knowledge of product classification process.
- Experience with data analytics, metrics reporting, and key performance indicators.
Personal Trait Profile:
- Ability to interpret and understand the impact of regulatory changes.
- Ability to work independently once tasks are assigned and to drive key initiatives.
- Excellent skills in problem-solving.
- Strong writing skills; experience in drafting reports and presentations.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills a plus
- Proactive, well-organized, highly motivated
- Experience with MS Office, Power BI, or other digital reporting tools
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at one time
- Be an innovative and “positive change agent.”
- Utilizes Lean principles, continuous improvement mindset
- Self-starter with leadership qualities
- Meticulous record-keeping skills, including recording of meeting minutes
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
This job exposes employees to a typical office environment with typical office physical demands.
Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be all-inclusive. All individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities to meet the needs of the business.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
It is the policy of Axcelis to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment for all persons free from discrimination based on race, sex, religion, age, color, national origin, disability status, medical condition (including pregnancy), veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Axcelis will provide reasonable accommodation necessary to enable a disabled candidate or employee to perform the essential functions of the position, unless the accommodation would create an undue hardship for the Company.