[Hiring] Senior Manager, Clinical Trial Payments @Arcus Biosciences

Role Description

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 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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