Manager, Financial Operations

Overview

Provides financial operations support for Global Medical Evidence Generation studies, covering budget tracking, purchase order and invoice coordination, reconciliation, variance monitoring, payment follow-up and audit-ready documentation.

What you'll do

• Maintain budget trackers and dashboards with planned spend, vendor, purchase order, invoice, payment, milestone, variance and open-issue information.
• Prepare or update purchase order request packages using approved study budget assumptions, expected spend profiles, contract terms and milestone information.
• Route purchase order and invoice packages through the appropriate reviewers, approvers, Finance and Procurement stakeholders.
• Track purchase order issuance, invoice receipt, payment status, outstanding approvals and unresolved issues through closure.
• Reconcile invoices against purchase order values, approved scope, contract terms, expected study activity and documented milestones.
• Maintain complete, accurate and audit-ready budget, purchase order, invoice, approval, reconciliation and issue-resolution records in designated repositories.
• Support reporting on open purchase orders, overdue invoices, payment risks, budget variances, forecast changes and financial operations backlog.
• Escalate budget variances, scope changes, invoice mismatches, payment delays, approval exceptions and documentation gaps to the appropriate owner.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, Study Operations and Global Evidence Generation to resolve routing, documentation and payment issues.
• Support process improvements that reduce cycle-time delays, rework and documentation inconsistencies.
• Use approved digital, automation and AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to support financial tracking, exception identification and reporting while maintaining validation, traceability, data privacy and human oversight.

What you'll need

• A degree in business, finance, operations, pharmacy, public health, health economics, life sciences or a related discipline.
• Working knowledge of study budgets and forecasts, purchase orders, invoices, contracts, payment milestones, reconciliation, variance tracking and approval routing.
• Ability to maintain accurate trackers, dashboards, documentation packages and audit-ready financial records.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to coordinate across Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors and global study owners.
• Familiarity with ERP, procurement, finance, vendor payment, evidence generation or document management systems.
• Comfort using approved automation and AI-enabled tools for defined financial operations activities, with appropriate judgment regarding accuracy, privacy, traceability and escalation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to have

• More than 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Biopharmaceutical industry experience.
• Experience in study finance operations, procurement operations, clinical or study operations, evidence generation operations, vendor payments, or Medical Affairs operations in a regulated environment.
• Additional languages.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Full-time, regular employee.
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working.