Job Description
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Provides high-level support to Research Finance leadership, Pre and Post-Award Teams, research faculty and research support staff. Manage post-award and pre-award activities of sponsored programs within portfolio. This includes maintaining the healthy financial status of all accounts within the finance manager's portfolio ensuring compliance of sponsor and institutional terms and conditions as well as proposal development, submission, and post-submission follow-up for manager's portfolio of investigators and others as needed.Does this position require Patient Care? No
Essential Functions
-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.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's Degree Finance required or Bachelor's Degree Business Administration required or Master's Degree Business Administration preferred
Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree? No
Licenses and Credentials
Experience
Grant management or finance experience 2-3 years required and Grant administration or finance experience 3-5 years required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Must have strong working knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Excel, Teams, and Word.
- A good working knowledge of research agency funding guidelines, policies, directives, extremely helpful.
- 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.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
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Grade
8
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Competency Framework
At Mass General Brigham, our competency framework defines what effective leadership “looks like” by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused, half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance, make hiring decisions, identify development needs, mobilize employees across our system, and establish a strong talent pipeline.
