<p>We are looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist to join our client in Taunton Massachusetts. This role requires someone who excels in managing payroll processes, HR data analysis, and compliance with labor regulations. You will play a key role in ensuring accurate payroll, maintaining HR systems, and contributing to compensation strategies.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Collect, verify, and maintain accurate timekeeping records for employees to ensure precise payroll processing.</p><p>• Process bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll cycles, calculating wages, overtime, bonuses, taxes, and deductions.</p><p>• Address and resolve payroll-related inquiries from employees and management in a timely manner.</p><p>• Compile and analyze HR metrics and data from various sources, including HR systems, payroll outputs, and labor statistics.</p><p>• Conduct market research to benchmark compensation ranges and ensure competitive pay structures for different roles.</p><p>• Perform classification audits to verify proper exemption status for job positions.</p><p>• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations, including wage and hour laws.</p><p>• Conduct annual pay equity audits and provide actionable recommendations based on findings.</p><p>• Maintain and update HR databases, ensuring data integrity and alignment with finance systems.</p><p>• Collaborate with Operations to analyze labor and machine hour variances, driving continuous improvement efforts.</p>
We are looking for an experienced Contracts Manager to support a major clinical development program in Needham, Massachusetts. This Long-term Contract position will focus on managing a wide range of contract activities tied to therapeutic research, with particular emphasis on complex agreement review and negotiation. The ideal candidate brings strong judgment, precise drafting skills, and prior exposure to Phase 3 trial contracting in a therapeutics environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Prepare, revise, and finalize a variety of agreements related to clinical and commercial operations within a therapeutics setting.<br>• Conduct detailed contract assessments, recommend risk-balanced language, and incorporate revisions through redlining and stakeholder feedback.<br>• Lead negotiations with external parties to secure terms that align with business, legal, and study objectives.<br>• Partner with internal legal, clinical, and operational teams to ensure contracts support the needs of a large Phase 3 trial.<br>• Oversee contract administration activities, including version control, documentation accuracy, and status tracking across active agreements.<br>• Advise stakeholders on contractual obligations, key provisions, and potential areas of exposure throughout the agreement lifecycle.
<p>We are looking for a Cost Manager to support a manufacturing organization north of Boston through a Long-term Contract assignment. This position will lead core cost accounting activities, helping ensure accurate financial reporting and meaningful analysis for operational decision-making. The role will also support to strengthen costing practices, improve processes, and support profitability across the business.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead month-end and quarter-end manufacturing cost accounting activities to ensure timely and accurate financial close results.</p><p>• Prepare and review inventory reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting analysis related to inventory balances, including in-service merchandise and amortization activity.</p><p>• Direct cycle count and physical inventory programs in coordination with Operations to promote accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls.</p><p>• Establish and apply enhanced product costing standards that align with corporate accounting policies and drive consistency across the organization.</p><p>• Assess inventory reserve requirements, including excess and obsolete stock, in partnership with Supply Chain leadership.</p><p>• Strengthen and monitor internal control execution while identifying opportunities to improve cost and inventory processes, including support for new system-related workflows.</p><p>• Coordinate cost and inventory support for quarterly reviews and annual audits, responding to documentation requests and resolving follow-up items.</p><p>• Drive product cost planning, margin analysis, budgeting, and forecasting activities to support financial performance management.</p><p>• Provide analytical insight to Operations and Supply Chain teams to uncover efficiencies, improve decision-making, and support profitability initiatives.</p><p>• Supervise and develop the cost accounting team while leading ad hoc analysis and special projects as business needs arise.</p>
<p>Company located in Boston is actively looking to hire a Contracts & Compliance manager for their team. This company maintains a hybrid work model of 3 days per week in their Boston office.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Contract Management:</strong> Lead review, redlining, negotiation, and administration of MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, and client‑specific contract terms; maintain documentation and exception reporting.</p><p><strong>Cross‑Functional Partnership:</strong> Work closely with Sales, Account Management, Client Services, IT, and InfoSec to operationalize contract obligations and support project‑specific negotiations.</p><p><strong>Vendor Governance:</strong> Manage vendor onboarding/offboarding, maintain approved vendor lists, oversee MSA processes, and collaborate with stakeholders on new vendor agreements and risk assessments.</p><p><strong>Compliance & Risk Management:</strong> Monitor laws and regulatory trends, enhance compliance frameworks, and implement process improvements across contracts and policies.</p><p><strong>Project & Stakeholder Management:</strong> Coordinate multiple priorities in a matrixed environment, ensuring strong communication, negotiation, and expectation management.</p><p><strong>Technology & Operational Excellence:</strong> Leverage technology (including AI) to increase efficiency, track compliance, and support scalable processes.</p>
We are looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to join a Contract assignment based in Waltham, Massachusetts. This role will lead daily payables operations while strengthening controls, improving efficiency, and supporting accurate financial reporting. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in invoice processing, payment execution, vendor coordination, and workflow optimization within a modern AP environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead end-to-end accounts payable operations, from invoice receipt and account coding through approval routing, payment release, and vendor follow-up.<br>• Manage a fully digital AP process designed to improve speed, accuracy, and long-term scalability across transaction volumes.<br>• Oversee and refine accounts payable workflows within NetSuite and related systems to support consistent processing and stronger visibility.<br>• Ensure invoices, employee expense submissions, and payment batches are completed accurately and on schedule across ACH, wire, and check methods.<br>• Maintain effective financial controls and verify adherence to internal policies, documentation standards, and audit expectations.<br>• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, and business partners to address discrepancies, remove bottlenecks, and improve coordination.<br>• Review aging activity and respond to vendor concerns promptly to sustain healthy supplier relationships and resolve outstanding items.<br>• Contribute to month-end close by preparing accrual support and completing account reconciliations tied to payables activity.<br>• Identify opportunities for automation, reporting enhancements, and process improvements that strengthen AP performance and transparency.<br>• Produce analysis on payables trends, cash requirements, and vendor spending to support operational and financial decision-making.