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I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge.\nJob Description\nThe Manager, Financial Operations provides financial operations support for evidence generation studies, including budget tracking, purchase order and invoice coordination, reconciliation support, variance monitoring, payment follow-up, and audit-ready documentation. The role helps ensure financial activities are accurate, timely, traceable, and aligned with approved contracts, study milestones, forecasts, and governance requirements. The role also supports the appropriate use of approved digital, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve tracking, reporting, and operational efficiency.\nAbout the Role\nThe Manager, Financial Operations maintains the day-to-day financial operations required to support the Global Medical Evidence Generation portfolio. 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The role contributes to consistent, scalable, and compliant ways of working while preserving appropriate human review and decision authority.\nHow You Will Contribute\nMaintain budget trackers and dashboards with planned spend, vendor, purchase order, invoice, payment, milestone, variance, and open-issue information.\nPrepare or update purchase order request packages using approved study budget assumptions, expected spend profiles, contract terms, and milestone information.\nRoute purchase order and invoice packages through the appropriate reviewers, approvers, Finance, and Procurement stakeholders.\nTrack purchase order issuance, invoice receipt, payment status, outstanding approvals, and unresolved issues through closure.\nReconcile invoices against purchase order values, approved scope, contract terms, expected study activity, and documented milestones.\nMaintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready budget, purchase order, invoice, approval, reconciliation, and issue-resolution records in designated repositories.\nSupport reporting on open purchase orders, overdue invoices, payment risks, budget variances, forecast changes, and financial operations backlog.\nEscalate budget variances, scope changes, invoice mismatches, payment delays, approval exceptions, and documentation gaps to the appropriate owner.\nPartner with Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, Study Operations, and Global Evidence Generation to resolve routing, documentation, and payment issues.\nSupport process improvements that reduce cycle-time delays, rework, and documentation inconsistencies.\nUse approved digital, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to support financial tracking, exception identification, and reporting while maintaining validation, traceability, data privacy, and human oversight.\nQualifications\nA degree in business, finance, operations, pharmacy, public health, health economics, life sciences, or a related discipline is required. \nMore than 5+ years of relevant work experience and biopharmaceutical industry experience are preferred.\nExperience in study finance operations, procurement operations, clinical or study operations, evidence generation operations, vendor payments, or Medical Affairs operations in a regulated environment.\nWorking knowledge of study budgets and forecasts, purchase orders, invoices, contracts, payment milestones, reconciliation, variance tracking, and approval routing.\nAbility to maintain accurate trackers, dashboards, documentation packages, and audit-ready financial records.\nStrong attention to detail and the ability to coordinate across Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, and global study owners.\nFamiliarity with ERP, procurement, finance, vendor payment, evidence generation, or document management systems.\nComfort using approved automation and AI-enabled tools for defined financial operations activities, with appropriate judgment regarding accuracy, privacy, traceability, and escalation.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills in English; additional languages are advantageous.\nBenefits\nIt is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. 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