**Job Description**: **Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**: Ownership of country and site budgets. Development, negotiation and completion of Clinical Trial Research Agreements (CTRA). Oversees and tracks clinical research-related payments. Payment reconciliation at study close-out. Oversees FCPA, DPS/OFAC, and maintenance of financial systems. Financial forecasting in conjunction with SCOM /other roles. Contributes to the development of local SOPs. Oversees CTCs as applicable. Coordinates and liaises with CRM, CTC, CRA, (Finance and Legal if appropriate) to ensure country deliverables are obtained for submissions, budgets, CTRAs and local milestones. Collaborates closely with Headquarter to align country timelines for assigned protocols. Ownership of financial compliance. The position has a significant impact on how a country can deliver country-specific trial commitments and objectives especially during study start-up. Required to in/directly influence investigators, external partners and country operations to adhere to partners and country operations to adhere to budget targets and agreed payment timelines. Works in partnership internally with GCTO country operations, finance, legal and regional operations, HQ functional areas and externally with vendors and sites. Through continual interaction with local clinical team/s successfully delivers clinical and financial contracts within fair market value **Competency / Expectations**: Expertise of core clinical systems, tools and metrics Excellent English skills Strong coordination and organizational skills skilled knowledge of budget and contract negotiations. Ability to indirectly influence investigators, vendors, external partners and country managers to address and resolve issues, with mínimal support from the SCOM or manager. Ability to make decisions independently with limited oversight from SCOM or manager. Requires strong understanding of local regulatory environment **Requirements**: Problem solving is essential to this position. Requires the ability to pro-actively identify issues and risks, analyse root cause, and propose solutions to problems and escalate to management as applicable. Specific examples of common problems include: 1) Issues in budget / CTRA negotiations, 2) Quality and compliance issues, 3) Regulatory and legal issues, and 4) issues related to functional area deliverables that could jeopardize protocol milestones. Strong communication, leadership, and negotiation skills as well as excellent influencing and training/mentoring skills, both written and verbal, in local language and English. Ability to focus on multiple deliverables and protocols simultaneously is essential. Requires that the individual has ability to work effectively also in a remote virtual environment with a wide range of people. **Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully** **Employee Status**: Project Temps (Fixed Term) **Relocation**: No relocation **VISA Sponsorship**: **Travel Requirements**: **Flexible Work Arrangements**: **Shift**: **Valid Driving License**: **Hazardous Material(s)**: **Number of Openings**: 1 **Requisition ID**:R206385