Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Date Posted: 08/06/2026
## Your Role
At Miltenyi Biotec, our North America Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our patient‑focused biotech organization dedicated to helping make cancer history. We are not only pioneers in science—we are innovators in finance. Our team partners cross‑functionally across the U.S., serving as strategic advisors to business leaders and driving impactful decision‑making.
As part of a broader finance transformation initiative, Miltenyi is transitioning its financial reporting framework to International Financial Reporting Standards (**IFRS**). We are seeking a Sr. Financial Compliance Analyst to play a key role in this transformation. This individual will help ensure the successful alignment of accounting policies, business processes, and reporting structures with IFRS requirements while supporting stakeholders across the organization.
The ideal candidate is a hands‑on finance professional with deep technical accounting expertise, strong knowledge of IFRS standards, and experience operating in a multinational environment with complex intercompany, inventory, and manufacturing accounting structures.
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## Essential Duties and Responsibilities
### Financial Reporting & Compliance
– **Financial Reporting** — Lead the preparation, review, and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS and applicable local statutory requirements.
– **IFRS Policy Alignment** — Ensure consistent application of IFRS accounting policies across North America entities and business operations.
– Support the implementation and ongoing evaluation of new and revised IFRS standards and assess their impact on the organization.
– Maintain and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and process documentation to support compliance and operational efficiency.
– Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOX/internal control frameworks, corporate governance policies, and external audit requirements.
– Partner with external auditors and internal stakeholders during audits, reviews, and regulatory reporting activities.
– Support month‑end and year‑end close processes, ensuring timely, accurate, and well‑documented financial reporting.
### Accounting Processes, Internal Controls & Compliance
– **Process Improvement** — Drive continuous improvement initiatives across accounting and finance processes, focusing on standardization, automation, scalability, and control effectiveness.
– Monitor and strengthen internal control environments related to financial reporting, inventory, manufacturing accounting, and intercompany transactions.
– Identify process gaps, operational risks, and control deficiencies, and implement corrective actions and best practices.
– Collaborate cross‑functionally to ensure financial processes align with operational workflows and global finance objectives.
– Ensure intercompany accounting processes comply with IFRS requirements, transfer pricing policies, and global tax regulations.
### ERP Systems & Financial Data Management
– **ERP Finance SME** — Serve as a finance subject matter expert for ERP systems (SAP preferred) and related financial reporting tools.
– Support the design, implementation, and optimization of finance system processes and reporting capabilities.
– Drive automation and process enhancements to improve data integrity, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
– Participate in ERP upgrades, implementations, testing, and finance transformation initiatives.
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## Requirements
– Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or CMA; 8+ years of progressive experience in accounting and finance, including strong exposure to IFRS reporting, operational accounting, and FP&A.
– Experience in biotech, pharmaceutical, life sciences, manufacturing, or other inventory‑intensive industries strongly preferred.
– Experience working within multinational organizations and multi‑currency environments required.
– Prior involvement in external audits, process improvement initiatives, and ERP implementations preferred.
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## Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
– Strong technical knowledge of IFRS, financial reporting, internal controls, inventory accounting, and manufacturing/cost accounting principles.
– Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP preferred) and FP&A tools (e.g., Tagetik, Power BI).
– Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
– Strong understanding of IFRS/German GAAP/US GAAP and financial statement preparation.
– Experience with financial process documentation, control frameworks, and accounting policy development.
– Strong analytical thinking.
– Excellent communication skills.
– High attention to detail with the ability to work independently and in a team.
– Proactive, solution‑oriented mindset and a drive for continuous improvement.
– Domestic Travel Requirements: 10%
– International Travel Requirements: 10%
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## Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is required to stand; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Must have the ability to handle more than one task at a time and must work at a rapid pace while maintaining attention to detail.
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## Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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