Clinical Pricing & Payment Sr Associate

Career Category Clinical Development Job Description Job Title: Clinical Pricing & Payment Sr Associate GCF Level: 4 Job Description Responsibilities - Support the Pricing Manager with study budget design and initial budget finalization, including coordination of Budget Strategy and Kick-Off meetings and associated activities. - Prepare country budget worksheets and supporting documentation in accordance with agreed budget strategy and applicable guidelines for incorporation into site agreements. - Complete study-level payment set-up activities, including payment triggers, budget mapping, system configuration and preparation of study-level payment information and documentation. - Create and maintain site configuration packages within the Clinical Trial Payment System (CTPS), including processing initial configurations and change requests arising from finalized site budget, contract or protocol amendments. - Coordinate study and site set-up and ongoing maintenance activities within applicable patient travel booking and reimbursement systems. - Review payee and other required site payment information across applicable systems to ensure accuracy and completeness prior to payment set-up and processing. - Review and approve site invoices, manual payment requests and other assigned payment activities within CTPS in accordance with established procedures and controls. - Prepare monthly site payment and split-payee allocation information, complete required allocations and approvals, and support accurate and timely processing of scheduled payments. - Perform data-quality and validation checks on site budget and payment information and investigate or escalate identified discrepancies as appropriate. - Maintain the central database of finalized and negotiated site budgets, together with study-specific pricing, payment and operational trackers, ensuring information is accurate, complete and current. - Manage assigned CTPS user access requests and other routine payment-system administration activities in accordance with established procedures. - Investigate invoice, payment and system queries and support resolution of escalated issues in coordination with the Manager, internal stakeholders and relevant suppliers. - Liaise with CTPS and other relevant suppliers to support study/site set-up, payment processing and resolution of site, system, invoice and payment issues. - Perform payment reconciliation and site close-out activities, ensuring required payment activities and system updates are completed within established timelines. - Support preparation of pricing and payment status reports, operational metrics and other reporting required to provide visibility of activities, outstanding actions and issues. - Provide operational and administrative support for site contracting activities, ensuring required pricing, budget, documentation and associated information is available and progressed in alignment with study and site timelines. - Maintain site contracting information within applicable systems, tools and workflows and support contract-related activities arising from protocol or site budget amendments. - Liaise across CP&P, Study Start-Up, Clinical Study Teams, Finance, Data Management, Site Management and other stakeholders to obtain information required to support pricing, contracting, payment configuration and issue resolution. - Track assigned activities and proactively identify and escalate risks, dependencies or issues that may impact Study Start-Up, site activation, payment execution or ongoing study delivery. - Participate in team, departmental and cross-functional projects and process-improvement activities as required. Continuous Improvement - Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize or automate activities. - Develop and share templates, tools, best practices and lessons learned. - Support CAPA implementation and continuous improvement across studies. - Coordinate and support project and process-improvement activities. .