Clinical Trial Investigator, Grant Forecasting

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✨ Investigator

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Fortrea

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Fortrea is a global clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in providing comprehensive clinical development services to biopharma and MedTech companies. With over 30 years of experience, Fortrea offers a range of services including clinical pharmacology, phase I-IV study management, regulatory strategy, market access, and more. They focus on advancing healthcare innovation by integrating data and scientific expertise to deliver tailored solutions that enable faster decision-making and improve patient outcomes, especially in the realm of cell and gene therapy programs, as well as various therapeutic areas like oncology, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases.

📋 Description

• 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 against actuals with Clinical Operations, explain variances, and update assumptions regularly • 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, PO coverage, payment schedules, and month-end close processes • Create executive-ready dashboards and reporting highlighting burn rate, run-rate, and forecast sensitivities • Contribute to scenario planning and quantify financial impact • 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, and Contracts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Life Sciences, Statistics, or related field • Demonstrated ability to build forecasts that tie operational assumptions to financial outcomes • Excel skills (scenario modeling) and comfort working with large, multi-study datasets • Strong communication skills to align cross-functional stakeholders on assumptions, risks, and updates • Detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple studies/priorities simultaneously • Strong project management skills to balance assignments and prioritizations of work • Fluent English level • 3+ years of experience in clinical trial finance, forecasting, budgeting, grants/payments, or CRO financial management (study, program, or portfolio level) • Experience with clinical payment/grant systems and/or clinical finance tools (e.g., investigator payment platforms, EDC/CTMS outputs, finance ERP integrations) • Experience partnering with CROs on investigator grant processes and forecast updates • Power BI (or similar) reporting experience • Understanding of investigator grant contract structures and common payment terms (start-up fees, per-visit, milestone-based, pass-through handling) • Knowledge of accrual concepts and monthly close cadence in a regulated environment • Please, submit your English resume