Location:
Ontario
675 Cochrane Drive
East Tower 4th Floor
Markham, ON L3R0B8, CAN
Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.
Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s headquarters are located in Markham (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada with additional sites in Bridgewater (Greater New York City Area), New Jersey, USA, Shanghai (Pudong Zhangjiang New District), China and Taipei, Taiwan.
Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.
Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength…that’s us…that’s Everest.
To drive continued success, we are seeking a committed, creative and experienced individual to join our winning team as Project Finance Manager. This position can be based in our Markham, Ontario on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy.
Summary
The Project Finance Manager partners with Everest Project Managers to ensure successful financial management of clinical trial projects. The Project Finance Manager is responsible for establishing and maintaining a successful relationship with Client’s Finance Department. The Project Finance Manager is responsible for maintaining/reviewing study budgets and monthly billing trackers, related staff timesheets and performing regular analysis, as well as initiating and managing the Change Orders process. The Project Finance Manager may oversee Project Finance Associate or Analysts. The Project Finance Manager reports to the VP, Project Finance.
Responsibilities
- Supports Project Management team in overseeing financial and contractual performance of Everest’s projects.
- Builds and maintains a strong relationship with the Clients’ Finance team during ongoing projects.
- Maintains/reviews study budgets and monthly billing trackers, related staff timesheets and performs regular analysis for ongoing trials.
- Identifies out-of-scope activities and overburn of budgeted hours.
- Manages Change Order process including change-in-scopes, out-of-scopes, and initiates tracking of change notification forms, consolidation, and reconciliation with billing.
- Supports revenue recognition process and reconciliation with billing.
- Supports Project Managers in project forecasting.
- Develops and maintains other study metrics, as needed.
- Possibly supervises Project Finance Analysts and/or Associates.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or accounting.
- 5+ years of experience in Contract Research Organization in project finance, account management, or operations finance roles.
- Strong working knowledge of financial and accounting processes.
- Basic knowledge of medical terminology and working knowledge of drug development services.
- Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage timelines and resources.
- Excellent analytical, as well as written and oral communication skills.
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