OhioHealth · 19 hours ago
Sr. Research Finance Consultant
Columbus, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expOhioHealth is a health system that believes in a lifelong partnership for wellness and sickness. The Senior Research Finance Consultant will manage clinical trial budgets and contracts, ensuring financial management and reporting for research projects while coordinating fiscal support functions across the organization.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Develop and/or coordinate Medicare coverage analysis for studies as required
Independently develops comprehensive internal budget including input from various team members for clinical trial budgets for industry as well as investigator initiated clinical research
Independently negotiate study budgets with CRO or Sponsor
Critically evaluates research protocols to assess resources needed; assessment includes all research procedures, clinical research staff time, and costs from ancillary departments
Analyze study budgets, including but not limited to cost analysis, calculating potential profit margins, etc
Effectively and independently negotiate clinical trial budgets with study sponsors to ensure all costs are identified and covered
Conduct monthly account reconciliation reporting processes for all sources of funding, track, and project revenue by specific funding category, determine actual performance
Prepares device information sheet for device trials, and coordinates with supply chain and other ancillaries as needed
Follows institutional and departmental policies and procedures for setting up a study for concordance review for final sign off from leadership
Independently develops and maintains study-specific and project-specific financial reconciliation and tracking sheets
Maintain schedule of reporting requirements for studies
Attend regularly scheduled meetings with PI and/or study teams to discuss financial projections and activity for each trial and project
Ensure that invoices to sponsors are submitted based on payment terms
Responsible for accounts receivable and accounts payable department functions for studies
Maintain research documents such as contracts and finance related documents for pending, new, and active studies/contracts
Service as a resource to PIs and study team from study start up, through study activation, and study closeout
Working with Finance Accounting on existing and future accounts and their financial activity – reconciling regularly for revenues, expenses, payments, etc
Reconcile all accounts monthly for financial reporting. Responsible for accurate and timely financial data entry
Serves as a research finance mentor for training new staff
Works with RBS Manager on compliance efforts on behalf of OHRI Finance aligned with the Quality Assurance Department
Assume responsibility for audit preparedness activities for OHRI RBS
Implements and executes standards and templates for consistency in budgeting, accounting, and billing across all clinical studies
Provide education and training on clinical research billing and compliance issues
Reconcile documents to establish compliance per the document concordance policy
Implements and executes section policies and procedures for pre-award proposal preparation and review and post-award accounting
Collects and analyzes OHRI financial and performance reporting metrics
Generates reports for team and leadership review
Provide ad hoc financial reports via CTMS, Workday
Use CTMS to report study finances
Recommends initiatives / improvements to RBS Manager to meet the needs of OHRI and using resources wisely to achieve maximum results
Oversee and monitor tasks which impact a process or policy change for the department
Advise, communicate, and reinforce standard practices, contractual or regulations to following regarding research study or project including coverage analysis, cost accounting, patient costs, budgeting, reconciling, research accounting and billing
Attends relevant training courses on financial policy and research compliance
Ensures staff assigned to clinical trial activities have been trained appropriately and meet internal qualifications
Maintain familiarity with evolving regulatory and compliance context
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree: Accounting (Required)
Degree in Accounting, Finance, Health Sciences, or related field
2+ years direct clinical research experience to include research finances
3+ years previous experience working in hospital/bank finance area or similar
Strong verbal, written communication, customer service skills
Ability to problem solve, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks across a highly matrixed environment
Strong computer skills, including thorough knowledge of OhioHealth systems (EPIC, CTMS, Microsoft Office, MS Teams, etc.)
Strong verbal, written communication, customer service skills
Ability to problem solve, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks across a highly matrixed environment
Computer skills, including thorough knowledge of OhioHealth systems (EPIC, CTMS, Microsoft Office, MS Teams, etc.)
Preferred
Master's Preferred (MS, MBA, MPH, Clinical Research)
Broad clinical trial or research experience: cardiovascular; neuroscience; oncology (cooperative and industry); musculoskeletal, etc
Thorough understanding of concepts and terminology related to clinical research trials: billing plans, standard of care vs research costs, device, and drug studies (CMS – National Coverage Decision re: Clinical Trials)
Research Administrator certification a plus (CRA, CPRA, CFRA, CCRP, CCRA or similar)
Company
OhioHealth
The largest integrated healthcare delivery network in central Ohio.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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