Thermo Fisher Scientific
10,000+ employees
Founded 1956
🏥 Healthcare
📦 Logistics
🏭 Manufacturing
Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.
Clinical Trial Investigator, Grant Forecasting
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
10,000+ employees
Founded 1956
🏥 Healthcare
📦 Logistics
🏭 Manufacturing
Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.
📋 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 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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