**Summarized Purpose**:Serves as the lead for administrative, reporting, contractual and financial support to the department related to the processing of payments to investigative sites. Responsibilities include reviewing and approving site payments, budgets and reconciliations, issue/risk resolution, ensuring adherance to contractual guidelines and country regulations, and providing training and guidance to junior team members.**Essential Functions and Other Job Information**:***Essential Functions**- Reviews and approves payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.- Compiles data from multiple sources to generate payments to sites in accordance with procedural documents.- 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.Manages escalations (project team, site and sponsor) regarding payment issues and resolves payment-related findings. Escalates project risks appropriately.- Trains study teams on site payment processes, including setting expectations around site payments' requirements and deliverables.- May process investigator payments in middleware and financial system; manage refunds, credit notes, late payment fees, pre-payments or investigator meeting reimbursements.- May build and enter budgets and SVTs; work on transparency reporting; perform study reconciliations; manage and maintain investigator funds tracker for studies transitioned to site payments.- Trains/mentors junior team members.**Job Complexity**: Works on difficult or complex assignments requiring considerable judgment and initiative to resolve issues. Understands implications of work and makes recommendations for solutions and / or new procedures.**Job Knowledge**: As a skilled or highly skilled specialist, completes tasks in resourceful and / or creative ways, and may contribute to the development of concepts and techniques.**Supervision Received**: May act independently on determining methods and procedures on new assignments. May be a facilitator and / or team leader (formal or informal).**Business Relationships**: Contacts are frequent with individuals representing outside organizations, and / or individuals of significant importance within the company.Contacts involve planning and preparation of communications, requiring skill, tact, persuasion and / or negotiation to accomplish the objectives of the communication.
