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Job Title: Manager, North America Tax & Financial Compliance
Location: Greater Raleigh/Durham or East Coast Preferred
Department: Finance
Reports To: Director, North America Finance
Salary Range: $80k - $110k
About Bavarian Nordic
Bavarian Nordic is a global vaccine company focused on helping to protect lives through innovative vaccines, public health partnership, and expanded access to disease prevention.
We work across emerging infectious diseases, travel health, and public health preparedness to help communities, healthcare providers, pharmacies, and health systems improve vaccine awareness, access, and delivery.
With a growing commercial portfolio and strong global partnerships, Bavarian Nordic is evolving how vaccines are supported across healthcare ecosystems — combining scientific innovation with customer engagement, education, and public health impact.
Position Overview
The Manager, North America Tax & Financial Compliance supports the Director, North America Finance in managing tax compliance, financial reporting obligations, and evolving regulatory requirements across the United States and Canada. This role coordinates federal, state, provincial, and other applicable tax estimates and filings; works directly with external tax advisers; and monitors business growth and operational changes to identify new or expanded reporting obligations. The position also supports healthcare professional and healthcare organization transparency reporting, environmental and sustainability-related state reporting, and other compliance activities within the North America Finance function.
Key Responsibilities
Tax compliance and planning: Support preparation, review, coordination, and timely filing of annual and quarterly U.S. and Canadian tax estimates, returns, extensions, and payments across federal, state, provincial, and other applicable jurisdictions
Canadian indirect tax and import reporting: Support GST/HST returns, remittances, reconciliations, and documentation, including import taxes and input tax credits. Coordinate applicable import VAT reporting, payments, and recoveries with external advisers and internal stakeholders
Tariff and customs duty compliance: Coordinate compliance for products ultimately sold in the U.S., including monitoring changes, assessing financial impacts, and managing calculations, payments, reconciliations, documentation, and reporting with advisers, customs brokers, and Supply Chain. Support Global Tax on other products as needed, without primary ownership
Supply Chain financial and entity alignment: Partner with Supply Chain to understand product and inventory flows and ensure transactions, costs, taxes, and compliance obligations align with the correct legal entity and jurisdiction
Tax provision support: Support current and deferred tax calculations, reconciliations, documentation, and information requests for period-end and year-end reporting
Regulatory monitoring: Track changes in tax laws, filing thresholds, nexus, registrations, and reporting requirements; assess additional obligations arising from business growth, new products, organizational changes, or geographic expansion
External adviser coordination: Act as a primary day-to-day contact for tax consultants, coordinating timely, accurate data, tracking open items, reviewing deliverables, and escalating risks or decisions to the Director
HCP/HCO transparency reporting: Support collection, validation, reconciliation, and submission of healthcare professional and organization spend data under applicable federal, state, provincial, and internal requirements
Environmental and sustainability reporting: Monitor and coordinate Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and applicable ESG, packaging, waste, recycling, and state sustainability reporting, including registrations, data collection, fees, submissions, and record retention
Financial compliance: Maintain compliance calendars, filing trackers, workpapers, approvals, and…