Clinical Trial Investigator, Grant Forecasting
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Clinical trial grant forecasting specialist supporting Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global science-services company. Building payment forecasts, dashboards, variance analyses, and scenarios across clinical studies and countries.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, continuously improve, track, and maintain investigator grant forecasting processes by study, country, site, and milestone/event
- Translate protocol assumptions and operational plans into payment and cash flow forecasts
- Reconcile forecasts versus actuals with Clinical Operations, explain variances, and regularly update assumptions
- Monitor and analyze payment drivers to identify forecast risks and opportunities
- Support standardized forecasting methodologies, templates, and controls across studies
- Align forecasting outputs with accruals, purchase-order coverage, payment schedules, and month-end close needs
- Create executive-ready dashboards and reports highlighting burn rate, run rate, and forecast sensitivities
- Contribute to scenario planning and quantify financial impacts
- Maintain documentation and data traceability for internal controls, audits, and inspection readiness
- Identify automation and process-improvement opportunities and drive implementation with stakeholders
- Support technology evaluations and requirements for a sustainable investigator-grant forecasting capability
- Partner with Clinical Operations, Study Start-Up, R&D Finance, Budgeting, Contracts, CRO finance teams, and investigator payment vendors
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Life Sciences, Statistics, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in clinical trial finance, forecasting, budgeting, grants/payments, or CRO financial management
- Ability to build forecasts tying operational assumptions to financial outcomes
- Excel skills, including scenario modeling
- Comfort working with large, multi-study datasets
- Strong communication skills for aligning cross-functional stakeholders on assumptions, risks, and updates
- Detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple studies and priorities simultaneously
- Strong project management skills
- Experience with clinical payment/grant systems and/or clinical finance tools preferred
- Experience partnering with CROs on investigator grant processes and forecast updates preferred
- Power BI or similar reporting experience preferred
- Understanding of investigator grant contract structures and common payment terms preferred
- Knowledge of accrual concepts and monthly close cadence in a regulated environment preferred
Benefits:
- Collaboration and development as part of the everyday experience
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
- Equal employment opportunity and consideration without regard to protected characteristics
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