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University of Nebraska Medical Center · 1 day ago

Clinical Trials Accountant

Omaha, NE

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

$58K/yr - $87K/yr

2+ years exp

University of Nebraska Medical Center is seeking a Clinical Trials Accountant to manage and maintain research specific billing and invoicing. The role involves conducting audits and analysis while collaborating with partners to ensure accuracy in trial budgets, along with developing fiscal reports to support financial reporting and budgeting.

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Responsibilities

Serves as a budgetary accounting resource responsible for managing and maintaining research specific billing and invoicing with an interdisciplinary team to continually optimize the system to deliver a product that makes efficient use of resources

Conduct audits and analysis, collaborating with internal/external partners to ensure accuracy of all trials budgets revenue and expenses

Provides direction on financial policies and procedures needed to ensure efficiencies

Responsible for developing fiscal reports to include maintaining and summarizing various sources of operational data to support financial reporting, cost accounting, budgeting and procurement

Qualification

AccountingFinancial ReportingBudgetingMicrosoft ExcelAnalytical SkillsMicrosoft AccessSAPTeam BuildingCommunication SkillsOrganizational SkillsProblem SolvingNegotiation Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree

Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field

2 years of related accounting experience

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook

Strong written, verbal and analytical skills

Ability to become an avid and confident user of UNMC and NM accounting systems

Knowledge of accounting rules and regulations

Exceptional organizational skills, flexibility and the ability to work well under pressure

Ability to interpret and apply sponsor, institutional and departmental policies

Ability to manage high volume and complex transactions

General business acumen and vision to include common sense, good judgement, negotiation skills, basic accounting, financial statement knowledge including accurate interpretation and analysis and ability to anticipate and forecast programmatic needs of the accounting software

Advanced proficiency in analytic reasoning and strategic planning to understand budgets and administrative policies and processes

Understanding of regulatory framework and internal controls (financial and compliance) and ability to apply them within the division

Ability to assess risk and problem solve by critically evaluating alternative courses of action and arriving at solutions that are best for both the division and UNMC/NM as a whole

Exhibits a style of participatory leadership that fosters a climate of respect and collegiality to include competency regarding conflict management, supervision, mentoring and team building

Working knowledge of related technological resources/software to include enterprise systems and the MS Office suite

Ability to collaborate and manage across multiple organizations

Knowledge of and compliance with award-specific contract specifications

Ability to interact with sponsors, subcontractors and collaborators across the enterprise

A positive attitude