Research Finance Manager (Hybrid)

Partner's Healthcare; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Mass General Brigham's Orthopedics Department seeks a Manager, Research Management to oversee post-award and pre-award activities within sponsored programs. You will coordinate budgets, forecasts, and compliance across multiple investigators, ensuring timely submissions and accurate financial reporting.

You will lead a finance team, collaborate with research staff and PIs, and work hybrid from 60 Fenwood Road, with a 40-hour week and competitive benefits as part of a not-for-profit health system.

Qualifications

• Grant management or finance experience 2-3 years required and grant administration or finance experience 3-5 years required.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Excel, Teams, and Word.
• Must be extremely accurate working with a large amount of financial data.
• Possess excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Must exhibit a high degree of initiative.
• Ability to independently identify and solve problems.
• Must be very well organized, be able to work under time constraints and deadlines, and balance multiple competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple proposals concurrently while adhering to all necessary sponsor, institutional and Departmental guidelines, policies, and best practices.
• Assume financial control of assigned departments and review funding expenditures by the investigators.
• Monitor cost allowability, administrative reasonableness, appropriate award applicability, and funding availability.
• Prepare forecast reports to PIs and senior research leaders ad hoc and on a periodic basis.
• Collaborate with the Research Finance Coordinator to process contracts, orders and payments.
• Manage finance team by providing training, coaching, performance assessment and directing daily work.
• Assist with the submission process by taking on responsibility of working with PIs to create budgets and uploading to the respective Insight record.
• Create billing agreement, clinical trial and industry basic science records.

Skills

Excel

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Word

Financial data analysis

Grant management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Time management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Master's degree in Business Administration

Tools

Insight (research finance system)

Job description

Mass General Brigham's Orthopedics Department seeks a Manager, Research Management to oversee post-award and pre-award activities within sponsored programs. You will coordinate budgets, forecasts, and compliance across multiple investigators, ensuring timely submissions and accurate financial reporting.

You will lead a finance team, collaborate with research staff and PIs, and work hybrid from 60 Fenwood Road, with a 40-hour week and competitive benefits as part of a not-for-profit health system.