Sr. Manager, Clinical Trial Payments – Contractor - 3-6 Months

This role oversees site contracts, grants and payments to full‑service CRO partnerships responsible for operational execution of budgets, payments, reconciliation, and study financial controls. It maintains ensures just‑in‑time CRO funding, and supports accruals, reconciliation, and inspection‑readiness.

The successful candidate must be equally fluent in clinical trial protocols and financial statements, highly skilled in influencing cross‑functional and vendor partners, and able to uphold strict compliance with FMV and Sunshine/Open Payments regulations. This is a high‑visibility, individual‑contributor role reporting directly to the Sr. Vice-President of Clinical Operations and operating globally across all studies. The position is remote.

Responsibilities

Global Payment Philosophy, Compliance & Governance

• Accountable for oversight and ongoing management, assessment and reconciliation of study-level contracts and grants.
• Establish and maintain policies for invoiceables, pass‑throughs, conditional procedures, screen‑fail handling, and complex visit structures; ensure global consistency.
• Develop and maintain SOPs/WIs governing budgeting, payments, documentation, and global transparency requirements (e.g., U.S. Sunshine/Open Payments and ex‑US equivalents).
• Ensure audit‑ready documentation across all investigator engagements.

Study‑Level Budget Design & Financial Oversight
 

• Understand global study budget forecasts, partnering closely with Clinical Operations and Finance to ensure alignment. Support Study Budget builds as needed.
• Translate clinical protocols into country specific and site level cost models that accurately reflect procedures, visit schedules, and conditional events.
• Implement and monitor just‑in‑time CRO funding, minimizing idle cash at CROs while ensuring on‑time site payments.
• Oversee accruals, spend tracking, payment reconciliation, and close‑out documentation for accuracy and inspection readiness.
• Resolve escalated site payment issues, driving sustainable root‑cause solutions and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, life sciences, business, or related field
• 8+ years of relevant experience in biotech/pharma or CRO roles with direct responsibility for site budgeting and payment oversight
• Demonstrated ability to interpret clinical protocols and convert them into robust, compliant global site budgets
• Strong understanding of global FMV frameworks and Sunshine/Open Payments transparency requirements.
• Ability to analyze financial statements, accruals, and cash flow impacts.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and cross functional influence.
• Experience supporting Oncology diseases preferred.
• Experience managing global payment models across diverse regulatory environments preferred.

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