Legal and Compliance Specialist

Job Title: Legal and Compliance Specialist

About GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role: 

The General Legal team at GF is looking for a Legal & Compliance Specialist in Bangalore who will play a pivotal role to support the Legal & Compliance function in ensuring effective corporate governance, statutory compliance, entity management, and regulatory adherence for the Company's India entities and across the organization, as needed. The role will be responsible for managing corporate secretarial activities, corporate records, statutory filings, governance documentation, compliance tracking, and providing support on legal, compliance, and risk management initiatives.

The role requires close collaboration with Legal, Finance, HR, Tax, Procurement, Internal Audit, and external advisors to ensure ongoing compliance with applicable laws, corporate policies, and governance requirements. The role will also be expected to provide support to the broader legal team on other projects as the need may arise.

Essential Responsibilities:

Corporate Governance & Legal support

• Support corporate secretarial matters for all India entities.
• Coordinate statutory meetings, changes relating to directors, share capital, registered office, and other corporate actions.
• Assist with regulatory filings, registrations, renewals, licenses, and permits.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external counsel on legal and compliance matters.
• Maintain entity management databases and corporate records repositories across the organization.

Compliance & Risk Management:

• Develop and implement compliance programs and policies
• Monitor statutory, regulatory, and corporate compliance obligations
• Conduct compliance audits and assessments, maintain compliance dashboards and management reports.
• Support risk management activities across business functions, including identification of risks and mitigation plans.

Required Qualification and Experience:

• Qualified Company Secretary (CS) with 5–7 years of experience in corporate secretarial, compliance, governance, or legal roles. Additional qualification in Law preferred.  
• Experience supporting multiple legal entities, managing compliance trackers, regulatory filings, and governance documentation.
• Experience working with multinational corporations, GCCs, technology companies, or semiconductor/ manufacturing organizations is preferred.
• Excellent communication & drafting skills, attention to detail, ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.

GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer, cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe having a multicultural workplace enhances productivity, efficiency and innovation whilst our employees feel truly respected, valued and heard. As an affirmative employer, all qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation and medical and/or physical abilities. All offers of employment with GlobalFoundries are conditioned upon the successful completion of background checks, medical screenings as applicable and subject to the respective local laws and regulations.

To ensure that we maintain a safe and healthy workplace for our GlobalFoundries employees, please note that offered candidates who have applied for jobs in India will have to be fully vaccinated prior to their targeted start date. For new hires, the appointment is contingent upon the provision of a copy of their COVID-19 va

Information about our benefits you can find here: https://gf.com/about-us/careers/opportunities-asia