Senior Manager, Financial Operations and Quality

Overview

Lead financial operations, operational quality and compliance, risk and exception tracking, and QC evidence archiving across the evidence generation portfolio, enabling Global Evidence Generation, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, and Legal teams.

What you'll do

• Lead and oversee Financial Operations Enablement Leads and Operational Quality, Compliance & Archiving Leads.
• Manage study budget, purchase order, and invoice tracking against approved contracts, milestones, forecasts, and financial controls.
• Oversee quality control activities, risk and exception tracking, documentation completeness, and QC evidence archiving.
• Establish operating rhythms, workload prioritization, capacity planning, quality checks, escalation pathways, and handoff protocols.
• Coordinate with Global Evidence Generation, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Compliance, R&D, local operating companies, and vendors.
• Monitor operational performance, budget variance, scope changes, payment delays, approval exceptions, and process bottlenecks, and drive issue resolution.
• Ensure study records, close-out packages, vendor artifacts, and evidence packages are version-controlled, linked to relevant studies, and inspection-ready.
• Support implementation of systems, digital tools, automation, and responsible AI-enabled capabilities.

What you'll need

• A degree in business, finance, operations, pharmacy, public health, health economics, life sciences, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in evidence generation, clinical or study operations, financial operations, quality or compliance operations, audit-ready documentation, or contract and vendor operations.
• Strong understanding of study finance, contracting and fair market value processes, quality control, risk and exception tracking, evidence archiving, and repository governance.
• Experience managing budgets, purchase orders, invoices, vendors, operational risks, and documentation requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to lead teams and drive execution in a global matrix environment.
• Experience with iEnvision Research Module, Veeva Vault, ERP or procurement tools, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with digital tools, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities, with sound judgment regarding responsible use in a regulated environment.

Nice to have

• More than 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Biopharmaceutical industry experience.

Details

• Location: IND - Bengaluru.
• Work mode: Flexible work environment, including hybrid working.
• Employment: Employee, Regular, Full time.