Senior Financial Analyst - CCTO Research

Position Summary

At Stony Brook Medicine, the Cancer Clinical Trials Research Senior Financial Analyst, under the supervision of the SBCC Clinical Trials Office's Research Finance Manager, will play a vital role within the Cancer Center’s Clinical Trials Office by supporting the pre-award and post-award management of cancer clinical trials. Incumbent will facilitate the development of robust, compliant clinical trial budgets as well as the execution of post-award tasks to ensure timely receipt of clinical trial revenue.

Duties

• Demonstrates knowledge of financial management and/or accounting principles.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and institutional policies governing clinical research finance.
• Maintains financial system for compliance and system integrity.
• Ensures research billing compliance.
• Reviews and interprets clinical research protocols and develops budgets to capture trial activity.
• Negotiates and manages complex study budgets ensuring accurate inclusion of study personnel, patient care services, research related procedures / supplies, indirect costs, and start-up costs are accounted for.
• Reviews clinical trial agreements to identify language relating to clinical trial office deliverables (i.e. data entry timelines).
• Negotiates directly with industry sponsors to reach an agreement on budget and payment terms.
• Performs monthly reconciliations of study accounts managed by Stony Brook Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office and monitors study account activity to ensure income and expense are within budget.
• Invoices sponsors for fees and services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field.
• At least 4 years of finance experience in a related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications including Outlook, Excel and Word.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, Master's degree.
• Clinical Trials / Research finance experience.
• Experience working in a financial environment in higher education.
• Experience working with WolfMart and/or OnCore, and MyResearch.

Special Notes

Resume/CV should be included with the online application for consideration. Posting Overview: This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 90 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. Candidates are advised on the application that for full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date (which is within two weeks of the posting date). If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date. Please note, that if no candidate were identified and hired within 90 days from initial posting, the posting would close for review, and possibly reposted at a later date.