Employee Relations Partner - B5 jobs at Applied Materials

Responsibilities

• Build strong partnerships with HR and business leaders to understand organizational goals and talent priorities.
• Use data and insights to identify risks, opportunities, and proactive compensation actions.
• Design and execute scalable, globally aligned solutions for compensation challenges.
• Lead formal compensation processes and manage ad-hoc needs such as promotions, retention, and counter-offers.
• Provide tools, resources, and guidance to enable effective compensation decisions.
• Collaborate across the global Rewards team to share best practices and continuously improve.

Attributes for Success

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Collaborative and solution-oriented, with the ability to influence and build trust.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving outcomes with urgency.
• Bold, creative, and committed to execution excellence.

7-10 years of experience including:

• Proven track record leading large-scale, complex compensation implementations across regions.
• Strong strategic advisory skills , partnering with HR and business leaders to deliver aligned solutions.
• Expertise in market analysis, pay equity, and data-driven decision-making .
• Skilled in global collaboration and navigating compliance requirements.
• Proficient with HRIS/compensation systems (e.g., Workday, SAP) and advanced Excel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Finance, or related field
• 7-10 years in compensation or rewards with experience in complex, global implementations .
• Advanced analytical and Excel skills ; proficiency with HRIS/compensation systems (Workday, SAP).
• Strong strategic thinking, collaboration, and influencing skills .
• Ability to navigate ambiguity , ensure compliance, and deliver scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as day-to-day finance partner to IPC leadership, supporting all financial matters in alignment with BU CFO direction
• Drive finance operating rhythm and lead FP&A activities including forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis across multiple programs
• Develop and deliver insightful financial models, ROI analyses, scenario planning, and portfolio prioritization
• Manage OpEx and CapEx planning, tracking, and reporting
• Collaborate and coordinate with extended finance team members including Opex COE, Segment FP&A, ORCA, regional finance, corporate finance, and others
• Support strategic initiatives and special projects with notable risk and complexity, contributing to execution strategy
• Contribute to performance metrics, continuous improvement projects, and cost efficiency initiatives; support Global Finance priorities
• Support implementation and management of systems and processes for transaction support, cost tracking, and accurate accounting
• Champion the adoption and effective use of financial tools (Anaplan, SAP BPC, Tableau, PRM) for R&D spend analysis and reporting.
• Provide guidance and enforce finance policies and controls
• Mentor and support extended BU finance team members, fostering a culture of learning and excellence

Key Qualifications

• Proven expertise in financial planning, analysis, and business partnership
• Strong data analysis, reporting, and visualization skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing capabilities
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and startup-like environment
• Experience in manufacturing or operational finance roles is a strong plus
• Proactive, curious, and passionate about learning and growth
• Master’s degree or MBA preferred
• Advanced Excel skills; proficiency in Anaplan, SAP BPC, Tableau, and PRM
• 8–15 years of relevant experience

Major Responsibilities

This is a dynamic role that will enable the candidate to lead financial analysis and revenue management in partnership with Operations. The position requires an individual who is eager to work across functions and levels to provide valued Finance support.

• Business partnering with executive management team; primary finance partner for Business Management and Business Management Operations organizations
• Strategic financial planning, measurement, and execution around value capture opportunities.
• Deal analysis – partnering with Business Management on profitability & commercials. Recommends or leads product or service improvements to commercial deal structures.
• Drive execution towards Days Sales Outstanding and FGI dwell time targets
• Support for BU S&OP Demand Reviews, including scenario planning and market share implications
• Coordination across functions to drive build plan reconciliation alignment
• Bookings, billing, backlog analysis and market share forecast
• Forecasting & delivering predictable financial results
• Close/GAAP, including balance sheet management
• Process improvement in collaboration with peers in SPG
• Key participant on Agile Finance initiatives; lead for one segment-wide initiative
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

Key Competencies

• Business Acumen – business/financial concepts, processes, and practices for sound decisions
• Business Partnering - creating a real and active partnership with both operations and management. Provide 'real time' support and analysis to add value in decision making
• Data Analytics - data analysis tools to sort through and analyze data to identify factors impacting performance and to gain greater insight into trends
• Data Gathering/Reporting - tools, techniques and processes for gathering/reporting data for measuring business results, objectives & strategies
• Financial Forecasting & Modeling - processes, tools, and techniques for exploring and evaluating alternative financial scenarios and results
• Flexibility & Adaptability - approaches, tools, and techniques for dealing with a changing environment
• Influencing - ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization
• Initiative - self-motivation, ability and drive to seek out work and accomplish goals
• Org Change Management – effect change in an organization; ability to manage successful transition from current to desired culture, practices, structure, and environment
• Problem Solving/Critical Thinking - approaches, tools, techniques for solving problems & making sound recommendations
• Very strong Excel skills, including modeling
• Strong communication, including presentation skills
• Basic or intermediate accounting knowledge

Education & Experience

• BS degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred
• 8+ years of experience, semiconductor equipment or components manufacturing preferred

Key Responsibilities

In collaboration with manager, shape HR BU/Function strategies and priorities to align to BU/Function strategy and changing needs to help shape the appropriate culture. Diagnose and provide appropriate interventions to optimize business performance to execute against strategy goals generally at the BU/Function leadership level. Balance enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs with local requirements.

Actively partner, coach & develop managers and begin to develop executive leadership. (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions, performance management).

Effectively leverage and partner with COE & HR Ops in the delivery of initiatives to deliver the HR strategy for BU/Function. Balance enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs with local requirements.

As required, participate in M,A&D diligence and integration(s) from the HR perspective. Partner with M,A&D core team and regional HR on projects, programs, processes and initiatives to integrate the acquisition with the BU/Function.

Participate in at least one HRenterprise/region-wideinitiative annually.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

What We Offer

What We Offer

Salary:

Location:

Key Responsibilities

• Policy and Statutory
  • ​ Drives policy improvement to align with changing business needs, technology advancements and industry best practices.

• Process Delivery

  • ​ Drives end-to-end process alignment and integrity of the control environment.

  • Manages the products/tools organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

  • Able to deliver multiple conflicting priorities

  • Actively uses benchmarking and performance metrics to understand the health of the organizational service delivery and identify improvement opportunities.

  • Networks to learn best practices and new approaches and new technology advancements.

  • Able to take ownership for escalations and drive for resolution.

  • Strong understands the controls and reasons for them, including risk implications, within the process and business rules.

  • Ensures and drives integrity of process controls.

  • Has a strong understanding of the design of the tools and systems the organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

• Process Design, Build and Test

  • ​ Able to coordinate complex design and testing activities.

  • Able to drive design, build and test strategies.

  • Assesses end-to-end processes to evaluate integration points, process and policy controls, efficiency, roles and responsibilities, business objectives.

• Change & Project Management

  • Functions as change agent

  • Organizes operational sponsorship for the projects

  • Able to lead teams

  • Able to lead projects of higher complexity having moderate to large scope

  • Uses formal change management tools and method, including effective socialization.

  • Uses formal project management tools and method

  • Able to develop effective training materials.

  • Able to drive the implement new processes and policies.

  • Able to project influence within the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

  • Able to project influence to functions outside the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

• Decision Making

  • ​ Has Shared Services experience

  • Drives for advancement of the Shared Services Mission and Value with best in class company-wide process functions, enabled bystandardization,solid internal controls, and effective performance management

  • Foundation for Decision Making is Mastery of policy, Mastery of process (Reason for Processes, Marriage of Systems, Policy and Risk Management),

    Mastery or how to execute process.

  • Applies mastery to the problem and provides correct solution path

  • Effectively and actively uses performance metrics in the decision process.

  • Effectively and actively uses benchmarking in decision making.

  • Understands the effects of decisions on the stakeholders.

  • Effectively considers the needs of the stakeholders

• End User Support

  • ​ Clearly understands the Shared Services Mission and Purpose to the Company

  • Able to analyze trends and identify training needs.

  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to reduce the necessity for inquiries.

  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to improve self- service tools.

  • Able to improve support model design to meet changing needs of the stakeholders.

  • Understands technology and is able to leverage its ability to improve the end user support function.

Functional Knowledge

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field

• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Global Fixed Assets Process Owner

Preferred Background

SAP ECC, w/Asset Accounting Module is a plus; LeaseCalcs, BlackLine, Microsoft Office; Tableau;

Fixed Asset Administration

• Oversee & own the management of the fixed asset accounting process, globally .
• Lead team of 4-6 contract personnel based in Bangalore, India, who execute transactions & review Capital Approval Requests for required information
• Understand and apply corporate policy related to fixed assets. Be the “voice” of Fixed Asset Policy;
• Manage and maintain the fixed assets subledger and related general ledger activity.
• Understand and collaborate closely with Tax on CHIPs credits and their application to assets on books;
• Understand government incentives programs such as Cal Competes and other capital driven subjects and effect on assets;
• Devise, document and oversee the development of standard processes, procedures and tools (automation). Partner with and influence other areas of Finance and Operations to follow said process and procedures.
• Monitor lifecycle events from project scoping and approval to asset retirement.
• Advise business units regarding fixed asset matters and issues.
• Provide monthly fixed assets and capital spending reporting as required by Global Accounting; support Balance sheet review requirements.
• Support Tax and other business units or departments in periodic reporting needs and initiatives impacting fixed assets & projects.
• Research and respond to fixed asset queries from all levels within the organization.
• Respond to requests for information from internal and external audit entities, including SOX walkthroughs.
• Deliver training to personnel outside of fixed asset team. Maintain libraries of guides and desktop procedures.

Fixed Asset – Income Tax related

• Review all asset additions to ensure proper tax treatment
• Prepare quarterly asset related provision schedules
• Prepare fixed asset related schedules for federal tax return

Lease Accounting Administration:

• Manage Lease bots
• Prepare Lease disclosure supporting documents
• Update critical data in LeaseCalcs
• Manage equipment and housing leases for Europe and Japan
• Coordinate & support Corporate Accounting lease accounting owner

Property Tax:

• Manage relationship with third party providers (Ryan & Co.)
• Provide supporting data as needed

Key Responsibilities

In collaboration with manager, shape HR BU/Function strategies and priorities to align to BU/Function strategy and changing needs to help shape the appropriate culture. Diagnose and provide appropriate interventions to optimize business performance to execute against strategy goals generally at the BU/Function leadership level. Balance enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs with local requirements.

Actively partner, coach & develop managers and begin to develop executive leadership. (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions, performance management).

Effectively leverage and partner with COE & HR Ops in the delivery of initiatives to deliver the HR strategy for BU/Function. Balance enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs with local requirements.

As required, participate in M,A&D diligence and integration(s) from the HR perspective. Partner with M,A&D core team and regional HR on projects, programs, processes and initiatives to integrate the acquisition with the BU/Function.

Participate in at least one HRenterprise/region-wideinitiative annually.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view