Job Description

Job Description

Please note: Only candidates residing in the following states will be considered for remote work: California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Florida, and Georgia.

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Cedars-Sinai is seeking a Clinical Research Finance Coordinator II (Post-Award) to manage the financial operations of clinical research projects after award funding has been secured. In this role, you will oversee the financial aspects of ongoing research studies, ensuring compliance with sponsor agreements and institutional policies. You will work closely with investigators, research teams, and finance departments to monitor budgets, track expenses, and prepare financial reports, ensuring the successful financial management of each project.

The Clinical Research Finance/Budget Coordinator II develops complex clinical trial budgets for industry, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and investigator-initiated clinical research. Evaluates research protocols to assess resource needs, procedures, clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments. Determines cost allocation, negotiates budgets, details budgets, and responsible for monitoring accounts and invoicing. Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and local Institutional Review Board.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works closely with investigators and ancillary departments to identify research procedures needed, budget estimates and cost details.
• Evaluates complex research protocols to assess resource needs, research procedures, clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments.
• Determines whether research procedures in the protocol are standard-of-care or a research-related costs in order to correctly classify expenses.
• Develops complex clinical trial budgets for industry and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as investigator-initiated clinical research. Works with the CSMC office of Sponsored Research to develop final budgets for clinical trials and research projects.
• Negotiates trial budgets and payment terms with industry sponsors.
• Monitors study accounts to evaluate the cost expenses/details are appropriate and within expected limits, reconciles accounts receivable and payments, and recommends the best course of action for any deficits and/or surpluses. Negotiates with sponsors the final payment due for account closeout. May conduct review and/or audits of clinical trial budgets. Serves as a resource for fiscal related questions and engages management as appropriate.
• Responsible for invoicing sponsors, patient research billing, reimbursement to ancillary departments, and payment tracking. Issues and submits invoices for protocol-related items and patient-related expenses per the executed contract and internal invoices for staff time and effort allocation into study accounts. Works with sponsors and clinical teams to resolve queries regarding invoices and/or payments due.
• Extracts and defines relevant information, analyzes and interprets data to determine financial performance and/or to project a financial probability and makes recommendations to influence business results. Prepares and delivers data, reports and/or presentations to investigators, management and/or leadership.
• Enters financial information from finalized clinical trials budgets and clinical trial agreements into the Clinical Trial Management System. Reviews and finalizes clinical trials calendars to ensure agreement with Medicare coverage analysis and clinical trial budget.
• Performs Medicare coverage analysis for clinical trials and collaborates with Institutional Review Board (IRB) to finalize and obtain approval.
• Reviews protocol amendments for impact to sponsored research budget/contract. Process budget/contract amendments as applicable.
• May provide training and education to other personnel.
• May plan and coordinate strategies to improve existing standard operating procedures related to budgeting and clinical trials finance. May identify quality and performance improvement opportunities and collaborate with staff in the development of action plans to improve quality.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent experience/GED required. Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, or other related degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with billing, accounting, finance, budgeting, financial analysis or related field.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in clinical research.

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Req ID : 6709

Working Title : Clinical Research Finance Coordinator II (Post-Award): Remote Role

Department : Cancer - SOCCI Clinical Research

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Academic / Research

Job Specialty : Contract & Grant Budget/Fund

Overtime Status : EXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 8 hour

Base Pay : $34.24 - $58.21

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi ... tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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