Associate Site Payment Lead

Associate Site Payment Lead

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve. At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

The Associate Site Payment Lead is an individual contributor in the Investigator Payments Office, focused on delivering across their assigned tasks and responsibilities for assigned studies. Responsible for coordinating with the team members and their activities across studies, liaising with the project teams to ensure the site payments are effectively managed; and is overall accountable for the managing tasks for assigned studies.

Working independently and reliably showing a level of ownership, and diligence to the collection, validation, and analysis of project related data. Expected to analyze operational information of various sources including the contractual agreements between the sponsor, participating institutions, and investigators. This may also include tasks to support setup and modifications within the investigator payment system for expenses aligned to budget templates.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for Investigator Payment Office related queries on assigned studies and point of contact for project teams with guidance where required
• Proactively and effectively solves customer problems and accepts responsibility for actions.
• Work closely with Project Leadership, Global Site Contracts, eClinical Business Implementation, Global Clinical Operations, and other internal Investigator Payment Office team members to obtain additional information required to perform tasks, when applicable
• Prepare and follow-up on audits / inspections
• Proficient knowledge of clinical trial pricing / budgeting tools and how to reflect operational changes within the tools
• Thorough knowledge of Parexel's SOPs, Operational Guidelines and Work Instructions procedures
• Complete routine administrative tasks in a timely manner (e.g. timesheets, metrics, and expenses)
• Understanding of the set-up and payment process; including ability to analyze basic agreements
• Participate as a representative of the Investigator Payment team in study start-up meetings, including payment strategy meetings, to ensure initial funds setup requirements are documented for seamless payment processing
• Collection of information from all teams / systems / tools wherever needed on a timely and proactive basis
• Keeps internal and external team members aware of site payment status and issues
• Accurately authorize study setups before starting payments
• Resolve second line helpdesk issues for assigned portfolio
• Assist in the preparation of project status reports as needed
• Works with IFA and project team to ensure appropriate funding prior to administering payments
• Proactively participates in Project Strategy Meetings (PSM), providing input to payment strategy planning for incoming studies
• Compliance with the Investigator payment timelines as per the contractual terms
• Resolve payment discrepancies to ensure accurate processing of payments
• Provide payments reports for assigned projects to customers as requested

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