Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking a detail-oriented Contracts Specialist for a temp-to-hire opportunity in Orlando, FL. This role supports contract administration, compliance tracking, reporting, documentation, and billing-related activities across multiple funding sources within a professional financial services environment.
The Contracts Specialist is ideal for someone who enjoys working with data, deadlines, documentation, and cross-functional communication. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to critical contract operations while working with supportive leadership and collaborative internal teams. Candidates who thrive in organized, mission-focused environments and enjoy solving problems, improving processes, and ensuring accuracy will be well suited for this role.
This opportunity provides exposure to contract management, reporting, audits, compliance, and funding requirements, making it a strong career-building role for professionals with accounting, finance, compliance, grants, healthcare administration, or fund accounting experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage contract administration activities, including amendments, renewals, budget modifications, reporting requirements, and supporting documentation.
- Track contract deadlines, deliverables, funding requirements, and compliance items to ensure timely completion and accurate reporting.
- Analyze, reconcile, and validate contract, billing, and reporting data to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Compile, organize, and maintain contract files, audit materials, tracking tools, and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate with internal departments, external partners, and funding agencies to obtain required information and follow up on outstanding requests.
- Support audits, monitoring activities, and contract reviews by preparing accurate documentation and researching data or reporting issues.
Compensation and Benefits
- Pay rate: $25 per hour.
- Job type: Temp-to-hire.
- Location: Orlando, FL.
- Occasional extended workdays may be required during reporting, audit, or billing cycles, with schedule flexibility provided within the same workweek.
- This position is initially being hired as a temporary assignment, with potential to become a regular full-time position based on organizational needs, funding, and individual performance.
- Support contract administration, reporting, compliance, billing support, and documentation activities across multiple funding sources.
- Manage contract tracking tools, deadlines, deliverables, amendments, renewals, and budget modifications.
- Research, analyze, reconcile, and resolve discrepancies in contract, billing, financial, or operational data.
- Prepare documentation and reporting support for audits, monitoring activities, and contract reviews.
- 1 to 2 years of relevant experience in contract administration, finance, compliance, grants, healthcare administration, fund accounting, billing support, or a related field.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP, filters, formulas, conditional formatting, and data reconciliation.
- Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize competing tasks, and manage multiple deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage large volumes of documentation, data, and contract information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional follow-up with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to interpret incomplete information, exercise sound judgment, and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Experience handling confidential information and maintaining data privacy standards.
- Comfortable adapting to changing priorities and periodic schedule adjustments to meet operational, reporting, or billing deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in contract administration, grants management, compliance, finance, healthcare, behavioral health, or related administrative support.
- Experience working with large datasets, reporting requirements, audits, contract files, or billing support functions.
- Familiarity with AI tools and the ability to critically evaluate outputs while maintaining confidentiality and data security.
- Working knowledge of integrated behavioral health care models, funding requirements, or contract compliance environments.
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