[Hiring] Principal Site Payment Associate @Thermo Fisher Scientific

Role Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

This role is part of the Functional Service Partnerships (FSP) Site Payments team, which is dedicated to processing of Investigator Payments. As Principal Site Payment Associate, you will be dealing with one of the most complicated periods of the life-cycle of a clinical trial, which is essential part of our business operations and is a vital function within the Integrated Clinical Solutions group.

Discover Impactful Work:

• Serves as the Lead Associate for administrative, reporting, contractual and financial support to the department related to the processing of payments to FSP investigative sites.
• Responsibilities include reviewing and approving site payments, budgets and reconciliations, reporting, issue/risk resolution, ensuring adherence to contractual guidelines and country regulations, and providing training and guidance to junior team members.

A day in the Life:

• Reviews and approves payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
• Compiles data from multiple sources to review and approve payments to sites.
• Reviews and approves budgets and Subject Visit Templates (SVTs), and study reconciliations.
• May process investigator payments, manage refunds, credit notes, late payment fees, pre-payments or investigator reimbursements.
• Ensures adherence to country-specific regulations which affect and impact ability to pay.
• Manages payment responsibilities and workflow to meet contracted timelines and project deliverables.
• May manage escalations (project team, site and sponsor) regarding payment issues. Raises project risks appropriately.
• Trains study teams on site payment processes, including setting expectations around site payments' requirements and deliverables.
• Trains/mentors junior team members.

Qualifications

• Master's degree preferably in Finance area.
• Previous experience in international corporate environment preferably with site payments processing is considered an advantage.

Requirements

• Effective written & verbal communication skills, which include excellent English language.
• Excellent organizational, attention to detail and self-management skills.
• Proven ability to handle multiple timeline sensitive tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Flexible and able to reprioritize workload to meet changing business needs.
• Able to proactively identify, address and prevent project related issues.
• Capable of working independently and as a team member, with minimal or no supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others.
• Highly skilled at extracting and effectively analyzing pertinent information from study documentation such as protocol, contracts, budgets, etc.
• Excellent technical skills and ability to quickly learn new software; advanced MS Excel; preferred experience with Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), and/or Site Payment platform, EDC and financial systems.
• Good understanding of ICH Good Clinical Practices, Country Regulatory and/or applicable tax regulations, etc. for all nonclinical/clinical aspects of project implementation, execution, and closeout.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Extensive benefits package focused on health and well-being of employees.
• Flexible working culture that values work-life balance.
• Collaborative environment with teams eager to share expertise and have fun together.