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Parexel is seeking a Purchase Order Specialist to join one of our key pharma FSP programs! As a Purchase Order Specialist, you'll ensure smooth financial operations across our organization by managing critical PO processes in SAP. Your attention to detail and collaboration skills will directly impact our company's financial health and operational efficiency.
Job Summary
This role is responsible for managing the complete lifecycle of Purchase Orders (POs) in SAP, including creation, maintenance, and reconciliation. The position serves as a key liaison between scientific team, Finance, and Procurement teams, ensuring accurate financial tracking and timely invoice processing.
Description of Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for creating, maintaining, and reconciling Purchase Orders in SAP for Payments
- As needed, run a spending report from SAP to see if an invoice has been submitted for a clinical scientist to determine if a monthly or quarterly accrual is required
- Consulting with scientists, Finance, and Procurement on contracts
- Corporate audit support
- Answer queries from internal and external customers regarding ARIBA system issues
- Participate in year-end PO maintenance activities including carryover POs, etc.
- Run actuals reports weekly out of SAP and update project spending trackers
- Coordinate content of cloud-based document management systems in support of scientific activities
- File purchase order related documents and materials in designated locations
- Other duties as defined by management
Minimum FTE Years of Experience
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills with the ability to excel in high performance teams and/or a matrix organization
- Minimum of 1 year of financial industry experience
Educational Requirement
- High School diploma is required
Location
- US (EST hours required)
EEO Disclaimer
Parexel is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, which in the US includes race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- High School diploma
- Minimum of 1 year of financial industry experience
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills; ability to work in high-performance teams or matrix organization
- Ability to work EST hours (US)
- Experience creating, maintaining, and reconciling Purchase Orders in SAP
- Ability to answer ARIBA system queries
Parexel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parexel and has not been reviewed or approved by Parexel.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA options, and company-paid disability insurance. Descriptions often portray the package as strong or “top notch,” adding meaningful value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company matching and, in some regions, generous pension contributions. Core financial protections are emphasized as a solid part of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include ample PTO or flexible/unlimited RTO alongside flexible schedules and remote/hybrid options. Work-life balance support from managers is highlighted as a practical advantage.
Parexel Insights
What We Do
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com. Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are: • Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming. We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.
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